Senior Audit Manager, Change and Transformation

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

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Role Description:

Supervises and actively contributes to the successful execution of a portfolio of technology change and transformation audits by ensuring that reviews are completed to a high-quality standard and that engagement reports provide assurance and contribute to improving LSEG’s risk and control environment.

Lead audits confidently, on time, to budget and manage audit risk. Monitor the audit team’s progress and be the main point of contact with the team and audit partners to ensure the audit progresses in line with expectations. Help the audit team resolve and where applicable escalate issues and blockers to the Audit Director or Head of Audit timely. Complete supervisory reviews of the audit file timely and ensure quality of the file meets methodology expectations.

Provide input to the Audit Director for any changes to the audit plan for both the quarterly refresh and the annual plan (inclusions and exclusions).

Proactively write and share issues and report content with partners to gather feedback and ensure that final product is impactful and of high quality. Actively forward plan to identify hurdles in advance so that there is time to implement solutions and propose ways forward.

Confidently manage audit partners and independently run audit partner meetings. Work with the team to keep the partners up to date with audit progress and findings to maintain our "no surprise" approach.

Provide input to the Audit Director for developing the change audit approach and delivery toolkit.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develops an understanding of the key risks and risk drivers for the suite of transformation programmes across the Group; and ensures that the Audit Universe accurately reflects the business operations and that the risk assessments are up to date.
• Attendance at portfolio and programme boards to support the continuous risk assessment and monitoring of programmes.
• Leads a portfolio of technology focused change audits setting standards and driving on-time delivery at each stage of the engagement lifecycle.
• Supervises delivery of core components of audit engagements in line with Internal Audit Methodology with regards to integration and/or transformation change programmes
• Produces real time and impactful audit reports influencing partners to improve the control environment.
• Develops and maintains productive relationships across the business and across the audit function with a view to collating and assessing business information throughout the year and update the assessments of the risks.
• Supervises a team of auditors and uses active coaching and supervision to ensure quality.
• Coaches and motivates team members on the application of the Audit m