Vice President, Audit Project Leader - BNY Mellon

Overview

Vice President, Audit Project Leader

Bring your ideas. Make history. 
BNY Mellon offers an exciting array of future-forward careers at the intersection of business, finance, and technology. We are one of the world's top asset management and banking firms that manages trillions of dollars in assets, custody and/or administration. Known as the “bank of banks” - 97% of the world’s top banks work with us as we lead and serve our customers into the new era of digital. 

With 240 years of rich history and industry firsts, BNY Mellon has been built upon our proven ability to evolve, lead, and drive new ideas at every turn. Today, we’re approximately 50,000 employees across 35 countries with a culture that empowers you to grow, take risks, experiment and be yourself. This is what #LifeAtBNYMellon 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 Mellon, our inclusive culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards: 

• Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies & Top 20 for Diversity and Inclusion, 2023  
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI), 2023
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Corporate Equality Index, 2023
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score, 2023
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Top performing company for Sustainability, 2023
• Forbes Blockchain 50, 2023

Our Benefits: 

BNY Mellon 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 that can support you and your family through moments that matter. 

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

Employer Description:

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments and safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world's financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It's the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.