Audit Manager; IT

About the team

Are you an experienced Internal Audit professional with experience in IT and Change looking for a new challenge? Our expanding Group Internal Audit team in Wolverhampton is seeking an Audit Manager (IT & Change) to play a vital role in providing objective, value-adding assurance to our organization. You'll have the opportunity to conduct quality IT and change audits, collaborate with senior management, and provide unique insight to help the Group move safely at pace to achieve its strategic objectives.

If you're ready to take on a highly complex and challenging role with opportunities for growth and impact, this could be the role for you.

The OSB Group is a FTSE 250 specialist mortgage lender, primarily focused on carefully selected segments of the mortgage market. Our specialist lending is supported by our Kent Reliance and Charter Savings Bank retail savings franchises. Diversification of funding is provided by sophisticated securitisation platforms. OSB’s unique cost-efficient operating model is supported by our wholly-owned subsidiary OSBIndia. Alongside passion for our products and customers, we're passionate about our people and want to continue building a collaborative and engaging environment.

Being dedicated to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we encourage differences and recognise that individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences can bring valuable insights and enhance the way we work. This is supported by our Diversity, Community and Environment Employee Engagement Networks and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter and Women in Leadership Programme.

In this role, you will support the delivery of the audit plan and related activities in a timely manner to best practice standards, producing value-adding and high-quality internal audit services to help the organisation achieve its objectives.

• Deliver end to end risk-based, value adding assurance on a timely basis in line with methodology :
• Independently conduct quality IT and change audits, including planning, execution, and reporting.
• Discuss the findings of audit reviews with senior management (incl. exec layer) on a constructive basis in order to develop practical, innovative and value-adding solutions to audit issues identified.
• Writing clearly and succinctly in a well-structured and logical way - drafting high quality audit reports that are impactful, balanced, and proportionate and address the root cause of issues.
• Perform follow-up work ensuring management progress actions through to closure, validate they are appropriately resolved with supporting evidence or escalated in a timely manner.
• Apply technical expertise to produce high quality analysis and input into the technology and change risk assessment process and related audit plan.
• Support the wider GIA team around how to assess and test automated controls as part of their audit delivery.
• Support the wider team with the utilisation of data analytics.
• Perform business monitoring to ensure that GIA is aware of changes in IT and change activities and objectives, and a necessary audit response is developed.
• Continually display to a high standard the behaviours expected in the Group’s value driven behaviours.

We offer a base salary dependent on experience of between £55,000 - £65.000 and a competitive benefits package including :

• Discretionary annual bonus opportunity of up to 15%
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension (8% employer 5% employee)
• Life Assurance (4x salary) plus Group Income Protection
• Access to Private Medical Insurance and Medical Cash Plan
• Maternity & Adoption Leave – Occupational Maternity / Adoption Pay provided at 100% of salary for the first 13 weeks and at 50% of salary for the next 13 week period.
• Paternity Leave – 4 weeks of paid leave to be taken within 8 weeks of childbirth
• Additional benefits such as Hybrid working, Cycle Purchase scheme, Technology Purchase scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Holiday purchase / sell schemes, Employee Perk Portals, Payroll giving and Save as you Earn scheme.

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