Senior Auditor, Payments & Fraud Operations

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

12/16/2024

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This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Job Description

Join us as a Senior Auditor within Payments & Fraud Operations

• If you have excellent analytical skills and a keen eye for detail, this could be your ideal role in our industry leading Audit function
• In this key role, you’ll be contributing to independent audit engagement assurance by undertaking allocated tasks within the engagement life cycle
• This is a fast paced and varied role which will enable you to build your network at the bank, by collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders and senior employees
  
  
  

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Auditor, you’ll play a key part in providing independent assurance over the control environment on key bank-wide operations that facilitate payment processing, wholesale cash management and fraud prevention. We’ll look to you to provide quality, efficient and effective assurance and influence business managers to improve control as part of a digital and data-driven organisation. You’ll be assessing risks and controls and carrying out testing, as well as contributing to assurance planning and undertaking effective process mapping.

You’ll also be:

• Analysing MI and reviewing risk information to identify key business risks and contribute to continuous monitoring
• Contributing to effective audit engagement reports and opinions which influence our business managers to ensure they lead in a risk conscious way
• Engaging with stakeholders throughout engagements, making sure they understand business risks by having open and effective conversations on key risks
• Coaching auditors and supporting them to realise their potential on the engagement
  
  
  

The Skills You’ll Need

To succeed in this role, you’ll ideally have worked in an internal or external audit environment and bring operational audit, assurance or risk management experience. You’ll also need a strong background in providing assurance over payment processing and/or fraud prevention risks and controls. Experience in performing payment scheme certifications (i.e. BACS, CHAPS, Faster Payments) would be beneficial.

You’ll also need:

• Excellent attention to detail, analytical skills and the ability to assess and prioritise data effectively, quickly establishing what’s important
• A thorough grounding in monitoring and testing effective controls
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Great communication skills, with the ability to translate concepts in a clear and concise way
• Knowledge of payment and fraud regulations and operational processes including payment processing, investigations, reconciliations and cash management