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Advisor - IT Assurance
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| Location: | City of London greater london | london |
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| Tags: | risk | prince2 | project management | risk management | pmp | retail | itil | cisa | engineering | finance | insurance | business analysis | risk greater london | risk london |
| Type: | Permanent |
The role often involves working on high profile projects providing advice to some of the best known names in the FS sector. The work can be exciting and varied and may range from an advisor running a workshop for a client to provide focus on a particular IT related issue, through to working with a large, multi-disciplinary, team providing long term support to a major change programme.
Our clients include a wide range of FS organisations including retail banks, investment banks, insurance companies and fund managers as well as a variety of organisation providing services to the sector.
A large amount of the work involves providing assurance, advice and attestation to clients on their IT systems and processes, IT risks, IT general controls and IT projects. This work is delivered through stand alone assignments, or as part of external and internal audit engagements. The work will primarily involve assisting clients with their Finance systems projects.
Typical projects involve business process re-engineering, system selection, project assurance, system and controls reviews. Broader IT Advisory work will also be part of the role.
The responsibilities attributable to this role will include some or all of the following:
Delivering value added advice and assurance to clients
Conducting fieldwork and managing small project teams in delivery of assurance and advisory assignments
Assisting with scoping, financial management, managing delivery risk, production and initial review of deliverables
Building and managing senior client relationships (typically CIO level) across a number of financial services clients
The Individual
Successful candidates will display a combination of the following:
Proven experience of successfully delivering IT advisory and assurance services to the financial services industry within a consulting firm or Big 4.
IT background - IT service delivery, IT project management, IT risk management and IT-related qualifications including ITIL, Prince2 / PMP.
Degree/ masters qualification in IT or equivalent.
A good understanding of technology platforms.
Experience of core financial services systems - including transaction processing and financial ledger systems.
Experience in business analysis and requirements gathering, and understanding of core business processes within financial services
Recognised accounting / auditing (eg CISA) qualification.
Experience in an IT risk and control / audit environment
Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) and first rate interpersonal skills at all levels.
Ability to identify and assess complex IT risks and controls, to relate them to the wider business environment and to express opinions clearly to all levels.
Greythorn Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Our clients include a wide range of FS organisations including retail banks, investment banks, insurance companies and fund managers as well as a variety of organisation providing services to the sector.
A large amount of the work involves providing assurance, advice and attestation to clients on their IT systems and processes, IT risks, IT general controls and IT projects. This work is delivered through stand alone assignments, or as part of external and internal audit engagements. The work will primarily involve assisting clients with their Finance systems projects.
Typical projects involve business process re-engineering, system selection, project assurance, system and controls reviews. Broader IT Advisory work will also be part of the role.
The responsibilities attributable to this role will include some or all of the following:
Delivering value added advice and assurance to clients
Conducting fieldwork and managing small project teams in delivery of assurance and advisory assignments
Assisting with scoping, financial management, managing delivery risk, production and initial review of deliverables
Building and managing senior client relationships (typically CIO level) across a number of financial services clients
The Individual
Successful candidates will display a combination of the following:
Proven experience of successfully delivering IT advisory and assurance services to the financial services industry within a consulting firm or Big 4.
IT background - IT service delivery, IT project management, IT risk management and IT-related qualifications including ITIL, Prince2 / PMP.
Degree/ masters qualification in IT or equivalent.
A good understanding of technology platforms.
Experience of core financial services systems - including transaction processing and financial ledger systems.
Experience in business analysis and requirements gathering, and understanding of core business processes within financial services
Recognised accounting / auditing (eg CISA) qualification.
Experience in an IT risk and control / audit environment
Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) and first rate interpersonal skills at all levels.
Ability to identify and assess complex IT risks and controls, to relate them to the wider business environment and to express opinions clearly to all levels.
Greythorn Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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