Vice President Audit Project Leader

Vice President, Audit Project Leader

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world's financial system we touch nearly 20% of the world's investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities and people everywhere.

We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about.

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Audit Project Leader to join our Internal Audit team. This role is located in Manchester OR London, Hybrid.

In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:

• Lead or participate in delivering complex and challenging audits. This predominantly includes thematic audits of UK and EU regulations to satisfy regulatory coverage for the UK legal entities, across a number of lines of business.
• Lead or participate in the end-to-end planning, fieldwork and reporting of audit assignments - this will require consideration of complex, judgemental business processes and decisions
• Identify meaningful issues impacting business and operations under review, challenging management to ensure appropriate remedial action has been taken to address the issues identified.
• Prepare draft audit reports
• Follow-up of audit actions and where necessary testing their implementation.
• Build and proactively manage relationships with key stakeholders
• Act as a subject matter expert for Internal Audit
• Contributes to the development of the annual audit plan.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of industry best practice and regulatory requirements
• Carry out other ad-hoc tasks and projects as directed by audit senior management.
• Represents Internal Audit on projects and at management meetings/committees.

To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following:

• Relevant years experience working in financial services or banking, within Third Line Internal Audit or Second Line Risk or Compliance Monitoring
• Substantial operations, conduct and governance understanding and exposure
• In depth knowledge of audit methodologies
• Strong working knowledge of UK and EU regulation (e.g. MiFID II, EMIR, PSD2, SFTR) and key areas of regulatory focus from the FCA/PRA /EBA
• Working knowledge of Markets (e.g. FX, Securities Finance, Fixed Income) and Collateral Management products, and applicability of regulations to those products
• Keeping up to date with regulatory developments and regulatory change
• Strong communication, influencing skills and confident in communicating with stakeholders both internal and external both written and verbal with the ability to influence at a senior level
• Self-starter with a high degree of self-sufficiency
• Excellent planning, co-ordination, organisation, and presentation skills
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and adaptable to change
• Strong knowledge and use of Excel and other Microsoft software - PowerPoint, Word, Visio

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself. Here's a few of our awards:

• America's Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2024
• World's Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2024
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 100% score, 2023-2024
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability:
  IN - 100% score, 2023-2024
• 'Most Just Companies', Just Capital and CNBC, 2024
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2024
• Bloomberg's Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023

Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life's journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

Our ambition is to build the best global team - one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve - and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.