JOB TITLE: Audit Manager in Economic Crime
SALARY: £72,700 - £80,700
LOCATION: Edinburgh and Bristol
HOURS: Full-time, 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our Edinburgh or Bristol office
About this opportunity
As an Audit Manager you’ll contribute to the delivery of high-quality audits. You’ll lead audits, or elements of large audits, in accordance with the agreed plan, with relative autonomy, using a strong understanding of business strategy, controls and risks to provide high quality independent assurance on the effectiveness of controls. You’ll also act as a subject matter expert in Economic Crime, providing specialist insight across the team and supporting audit quality through your deep technical knowledge of financial crime risks.
What you’ll be doing:
• Contributing to the audit plan, supporting the portfolio lead by project managing individual audits on their behalf.
• Supporting control testing and identifying areas of concern, clearly articulating potential challenges.
• Proactively suggesting and delivering improvements to current compliance processes.
• Conducting research that considers multiple perspectives and brings the outside in to enable analysis of key themes and external trends.
• Freely sharing insight and providing timely, direct, and effective feedback that contributes to delivery success and creates a positive, sustainable impact on the function.
• Acting as a subject matter expert across Economic Crime, providing specialist advice during audits, supporting complex risk assessments, and supports the upskilling and development of colleagues through knowledge sharing and coaching.
Why join us?
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.
What we’re looking for:
• A subject matter expert in Economic Crime, with strong technical knowledge across areas such as AML, sanctions and fraud, gained within financial services, audit, or a related risk or compliance environment.
• A trusted and experienced assurance practitioner who delivers high quality risk and control insights that shape decision making, influence senior colleagues, and enhance confidence in the control environment through credible, clear and impactful communication.
• A digitally fluent audit professional with strong capability in data analytics and audit technology, demonstrating active curiosity about AI and emerging tools, and leading the practical application of these capabilities to drive smarter, more efficient and value adding assurance outcomes.
• A strategic and commercially aware thinker who interprets Group and Business Unit strategy, connecting audit delivery, thematic insights and business monitoring to enterprise wide risks, opportunities and long term organisational objectives.
• A strong communicator who exercises sound judgement to interpret complex data, distil root causes and implications, and deliver clear, outcomes focused audit conclusions that resonate with senior leaders and drive meaningful action.
• A confident and pragmatic prioritiser who balances multiple complex audits, planning and adapting delivery at pace, ensuring outputs are timely, high quality and aligned to where assurance adds the greatest value.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
• ACAMS or ICA Financial Crime qualification or equivalent
• Practical experience of managing or auditing Economic Crime risk, including AML, sanctions, fraud or ABC, within financial services
• Internal audit knowledge and experience
About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you’ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
