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We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Quality Assurance Director, Senior Audit Project Leader to join our Internal Audit team. This role is located in London.

This is not a traditional QA role. It combines real-time engagement reviews, thematic intelligence, and structured learning loops with a clear mandate to modernize how audit works—including the thoughtful adoption of AI and advanced analytics to enhance coverage, efficiency, and insight.

The successful candidate will help shape a QA function that is dynamic, tech-enabled, and intellectually curious—one that not only assesses quality, but actively makes audit better, faster, and more impactful.

Key Responsibilities1.

Real-Time Audit Quality Review:

• Perform ongoing, in-flight reviews of audit engagements to assess quality of planning, fieldwork, testing, and reporting.
• Provide timely, actionable feedback to audit teams and leadership to enhance audit execution before finalization.
• Challenge audit scope, risk assessment, testing depth, and conclusions to ensure appropriate rigor and coverage.

2.

Methodology & Standards Adherence:

• Evaluate compliance with Internal Audit methodology, policies, and tools.
• Ensure alignment with GIIA Standards, regulatory expectations, and leading industry practices.
• Identify gaps in execution versus methodology and drive remediation.

3. Thematic Analysis, Lessons Learned & Retrospectives

• Aggregate QA review outcomes to identify recurring themes, systemic issues, and emerging risks across audits.
• Lead structured post-audit retrospectives and lessons learned reviews, assessing what worked well and where execution can be strengthened.
• Establish a closed-loop feedback mechanism to ensure insights are translated into tangible improvements in methodology, guidance, and auditor behavior.
• Track recurring findings to root cause and ensure sustainable remediation across the audit lifecycle.

4.

Continuous Improvement & Transformation:

• Partner with Audit leadership to enhance audit methodology, tools, and practices.
• Drive initiatives to improve audit efficiency, effectiveness, and consistency globally.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of quality metrics and KPIs.

5.

Training & Capability Building:

• Translate QA insights, themes, and retrospective outputs into targeted training and development programs.
• Develop and deliver practical, experience-based learning interventions grounded in real audit examples.
• Provide coaching and direct feedback to audit teams to elevate technical and execution capabilities.
• Support onboarding and ongoing education on methodology and quality expectations.

6. Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor to IA staff on audit quality matters.
• Interface with regulators and external reviewers as needed on QA-related topics.
• Support internal and external quality assessments of the Internal Audit function.

7. Innovation, AI & Intelligent Efficiency

• Champion the use of AI, automation, and advanced analytics within the QA function and across Internal Audit.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI to enhance audit quality reviews, including testing validation, documentation review, and thematic analysis.
• Drive initiatives that create capacity through efficiency—reducing manual effort while increasing coverage and depth of review.
• Partner with Audit leadership to embed technology-enabled practices into audit methodology and QA processes.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and continuous innovation, encouraging teams to challenge traditional approaches and adopt smarter ways of working.

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

• Possess bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or equivalent combination of education and work experience required.
• Extensice total work experience. Prior experience in a mid-to-high-level managerial role in Audit.
• In-depth understanding of audit methodologies and an in-depth knowledge of financial services, with ability to evaluate the appropriateness of audit results across multiple lines of business
• Strong decision making, communication, and interpersonal skills experience requirement.
• Additional core skill requirements include understanding the applied and interpretation of analytics results for Audit, critical thinking and problem solving.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated, effective under pressure and willing to take personal responsibility/accountability
• Proven track record in the ability communicates well with clients while building good working relationships
• ACA, ACCA, CIA or related certification preferred.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated, effective under pressure and willing to take personal responsibility/accountability

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