Head of Audit - Cloud & Engineering

GIA Technology, Transformation and Data (TT&D) is seeking to strengthen its leadership team in line with the Group's strategic focus on modernising its technology. The Head of Audit (HoA) will lead an audit portfolio covering both cloud and engineering. We're looking for a HoA who has deep business insights and understanding of key risks relevant to LBG's cloud and engineering strategy. You should have experience leading a team of technical audit specialists to influence the effectiveness of the overall control environment by providing professional, independent and relevant outcome focused assurance.

LBG is progressively adopting cloud technologies and candidates should have experience auditing cloud platforms to confirm they are safe, secure and sustainable to host LBG applications. Candidates should also have experience of auditing cloud migrations as you'll be responsible for working with other HoAs within TT&D to audit key workload migrations to the cloud. The portfolio also covers engineering and supporting cloud processes. For example, API development and maintenance, CICD pipelines, deployment models, new application design approaches (such as micro–services based architecture), FinOps etc. The audit portfolio is a priority area for automated testing and where possible, the implementation of audit by design principles.

Key Accountabilities:

• Contribute to the strategic direction of Group Internal Audit (GIA); ensuring objectives and priorities are well understood and communicated with a focus on innovation in cloud and engineering controls assessment and testing.
• Manage end to end delivery and quality of all audit work within their team.
• Lead a team focused on cloud and engineering, including innovative testing and trialling new audit approaches such as automated testing on cloud and implementation of audit by design principles.
• Work closely with GIA Strategy, Risk and Support (SRS) and the Data Analytics team to influence and align approaches to methodology and strategic direction of GIA.
• Contribute to the build and maintenance of the risk based Audit Universe, demonstrating a strong understanding of inherent and residual risks across the risk taxonomy. Support the Audit Directors in the development of the bottom–up and top–down annual audit plan (and refresh as necessary) ensuring that all mandatory/ regulatory audit requirements (under the responsibility of "their" AD) have been identified and incorporated in the audit plan
• Collaborate with colleagues across business and risk facing disciplines to understand Group strategy, risk appetite and objectives, joining the dots to ensure that a robust audit plan is developed and completed.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Allocate and manage resources to deliver timely and relevant outcome focussed audit assurance included in the Annual Audit plan, including audit by design principles and interlocking with relevant engineering teams across GIA and LBG.
• Lead the development and rollout of GIA wide cloud and engineering training to support GIA's 'skills of the future' component of the strategy.
• Reviewing and challenging audit work delivered by the Engagement Lead / audit teams.
• Apply and champion the Group Internal Audit methodology and standards, providing timely recommendations on methodology and process improvements and deliver high quality audit papers and files

Do you have these skills?

Crucial skills:

• Building credible and powerful relationships with senior partners, demonstrating robust judgement, professional scepticism, insight and thought leadership to influence embedding of risk management and controls into strategic decision making.
• Building and maintaining external (outside LBG) and internal networks for the purpose of commercial awareness, satisfying external audit requirements and identifying best practice.
• Be able to identify and highlight thematic issues / risks identified across LBG
• Experience of identifying and reporting control weaknesses as well as agreeing and monitoring actions to address the weaknesses.
• Experience of continuous business monitoring, demonstrating an understanding of business strategy, objectives and critical processes to ensure that audit work continues to focus on areas of higher risk and identify any emerging risk.
• Contributing to senior risk and control committees.
• Demonstrate leadership within GIA, making a tangible contribution to continuous improvement, colleague engagement / wellbeing, inclusivity and working with agility
• Building a hard–working team including, managing SMEs (specialising in areas such as cloud or data analytics) and developing talent.

Desirable skills:

• Champion LBG culture, vision and values through visible leadership and by example, demonstrating the behaviours consistent with the Group's Codes of Responsibility.
• Experience leading teams in gaining experience working with GCP and Azure cloud products and where applicable, acquiring relevant cloud certifications (e.g. GCP ACE, Azure Fundamentals etc).

Our Benefits Package!

In addition to the salary quoted, the position also offers:

• Discretionary Performance Share Award
• Generous pension contribution
• A flex benefits cash pot you can adjust to suit your lifestyle (4% on top of your basic salary)
• Private health cover
• Share schemes
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Lloyds Banking Group is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation. We're adopting collaborative, agile ways of working, to help us deliver the best outcomes for our colleagues, customers and businesses.

We've gained industry recognition including Stonewall Top 100 Employer, Top 30 Employer for Working Families, Gold Standard 2014 from the Business Disability Forum and Top 50 Employer for Women.

So if you have the skills we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you!

We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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