Global Bank. Canary Wharf/Hybrid. IT Audit.

Role - It Audit Controller

Duration - 6 months with likely extension

Location - Hybrid/Canary Wharf - 3 days per week in a Canary Wharf office

Rate - £400 per day (Inside IR35)

Language - Japanese speaker would be a benefit but not essential

Duties

• Assisting senior management level people with Audit, IT assessment projects and responsibilities across both technical and administrative areas providing highly efficient control functions in a timely manner.
• Following management concepts and methods.
• Coordinating the relationships between the management team and IT Department.
• Coordinating the relationships between the team and individual Business sections.
• Monitoring Audit, Regulatory and Compliance trends in a banking sector.
• Handling procedures and control methods of application development processes.
• Identifying the conceptual differences between Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server Database.
• Understanding the basic concept of IT infrastructure such as Servers, Networking, Database.
• Identifying technical trends in Software application development methodology.
• Understanding software test methods across both manual and automated testing.
• Understanding basic financial accounting methods and terminology.
• Understanding basic strategies for analysing business data in the banking sector.
• Realising the importance of following the rules/regulations defined in an IT organisation such as access permission requests.
• Understanding the importance of documentation and managing any difficulties in keeping good documentation in the Development section.
• Handling external/internal audit related activities.
• Mentoring team members to ensure good team working practices.
• As well as the above requirements, this position will also cover various other functions that are part of actual roles related to system construction/operation such as PMO (Project Management Officer), Agile scrum master, Change Management Officer, writing FRD (Function Requirements Documents), negotiating with other IT sections, defining system access security Matrix and handling meeting arrangements.
• Communicating with different business sections on behalf of the team to represent their interests with regard to system construction/operations.
• Developing a better understanding between the business and the team as a whole.
• Handling enquiries from external and internal Auditors on behalf of the team to better manage their inspections by maintaining communications between the team members and the auditors.
• Ensuring that the team members are following correctly the various procedures on application construction/maintenance such as Security template changes, Change management requests, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Service Requests (as instructed to other IT sections), Peer Code Reviews (PCR) and System access permission set ups.
• Ensuring that the team members are following correctly the various administrative procedures such as daily timesheets, absence requests, holiday planning, the planning of team training agendas and performance monitoring cycle processes.
• Participating in system support/operation activities to monitor and respond to operational issues in audit/security perspective to have an understanding of what happens on the actual operation floors.
• Acting on behalf of senior management and management level, in their absence, to ensure that team members carry out their tasks and responsibilities as management requires.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.