Audit Analyst

JOB TITLE:
Audit Analyst - Technology

SALARY:
£48,000 - £58,000

LOCATION(S):
Edinburgh & Bristol

HOURS:
Full-time

WORKING PATTERN:
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our hub locations.

About this opportunity

As an Audit Analyst you will support in the delivery of high-quality audits.

You will own the design and operational evaluation and testing of key controls, and apply proficient knowledge of audit methodology. You will build and demonstrate a solid understanding of relevant risk areas.

You'll act as a proactive team member, with a growth mindset, positively contributing to the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the audit. Contributing to the ongoing development and improvement of GA&CI through a strategic and integrated audit focus, collaboration and agile delivery methods.

As an Audit Analyst for Technology, you will assess run and change controls across various technologies, including applications, legacy and cloud infrastructure, cyber and operational resilience, as well as data.

Day to day, you will:

• Contribute to the delivery of the audit plan, providing support and taking ownership of activities as directed within the Audit Team.
• Test controls and identify areas of concern, articulating the potential challenges.
• Help senior colleagues and build meaningful stakeholder relationships.
• Conduct research considering multiple perspectives and bring the outside in to enable analysis of key themes and external trends.
• Suggest improvements in current audit processes by being bold.
• Actively role model the Group values and behaviours.
• Proactively identify, address and drive personal development opportunities.
• Contribute to a positive learning culture based on effective coaching.
• Freely share timely, direct and effective feedback to colleagues, contributing to the successful delivery of the audit plan and leaving a positive, sustainable impact on the function.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too

What you'll need:

• The ability to lead and taking ownership for delivery, and championing colleagues' growth and development.
• The ability to deliver risk and control assurance activity that is timely, impactful, insightful and valued by stakeholders.
• The ability to understand and interpret Group and Business Unit Strategy and connect audit delivery and business monitoring insights to such strategies at a macro level.
• The ability to analyse, understand and communicate data as information, and to use it to drive effective audit outcomes.
• The ability to prioritise your work and that of others effectively to ensure timely and valuable delivery.

We expect you to have experience in at least one of these areas:

• Applications & Controls:
  Testing IT automated business controls, as well as IT general controls, considering the CIA triad.
• Infrastructure (including Cloud):
  Testing controls over the security and resilience of the Group's critical infrastructure. This includes mainframes; virtualised x86 environments and public cloud.
• Cyber Security and Resilience:
  Testing controls that support the Group's cyber and operational resilience frameworks. Desire to support and learn hands-on security testing.
• Change & Transformation:
  Ability to deliver change assurance over the Group's major technology transformation initiatives which are delivered using a Scaled Agile aligned framework.
• Data Risk:
  Testing controls supporting data quality, completeness and integrity.

As part of the role, you will build your experience and expertise supported by specific learning pathways in each of these areas, developing your capabilities to become a domain expert.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

* An annual performance-related bonus

* Share schemes including free shares

* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

* 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you