Senior Auditor

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An exciting opportunity exists within our diverse, challenging and growing Santander Internal Audit team. As a member of the Internal Audit department, we want you to share our passion about adding value to our people, customers, communities and stakeholders, providing robust independent assurance and challenge on the effectiveness of processes and controls across the bank and having exposure to senior stakeholders across our global organisation.

Specifically, this role resides within the Internal Audit department of Santander London Branch (Non Ring-Fenced branch of Santander Corporate Investment Bank in the UK), with a remit for the provision of relevant audit assurance across the Financial Crime, Conduct and Compliance risk areas of the branch.

The difference you'll make:

• Participating in assurance activities to assess the management and control of risk
• Ensuring that all work undertaken meets agreed timescales and complies with quality requirements
• Managing relationships across IA and influencing key stakeholders across the business as part of your audit work and collaborating with other teams, as required
• Taking responsibility for additional activities related to the management of the Internal Audit department, including production of required management information (MI) for Senior Management
• Identifying and assessing individual risks, controls and impacts on business areas
• Reviewing and challenging procedures or risk management practices using internal and external data to support decisions

What you'll bring:

• Good working knowledge of Financial Crime or Regulatory Compliance frameworks in which financial institutions operate for the UK and Europe
• Experience of working within the Financial Services industry
• It would also be nice for you to have.
• Relevant qualifications like an Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) qualification, a Compliance professional qualification (for example CISI Diploma in Investment Compliance) or a Financial Crime professional qualification (such as ACAMS, ICA) or equivalent experience
• Sound business and product knowledge in one or more areas of: Corporate Investment Bank (CIB) businesses
• Strong communication skills
• In-depth understanding of concepts of risk and strategy

What else you need to know:

• We offer a Hybrid working approach - 3 days office and 2 days work from home.
• How we'll reward you.
• As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.
• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
• Pension with generous contributions of up to 12.5% from Santander, depending on your own contribution and length of employment with us
• 27 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
• Company funded individual private medical insurance
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more
• Share in Santander's success by investing in our share plans
• Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships
• Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

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We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our people, so we welcome applications from across society.

You can find out more about how we're embedding an inclusive culture that encourages our people to bring their full and authentic selves to work on our Inclusion and Belonging page.

A bit more about Santander

At Santander we're driven by our purpose - to help people and businesses prosper. This means we help customers to create change for themselves and those around them, and we champion businesses to grow sustainably. We do this by always living our values of Simple, Personal and Fair.

At Santander, we each take personal responsibility for managing risk by embracing the I AM Risk framework - to Identify, Assess, Manage and Report risks, and to continuously build a deeper understanding of the risks we face. It is an important part of our culture at Santander and we will provide you with knowledge to help you manage risks in your role.

What to do next:

If this sounds like a role you're interested in, then please apply.

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