Senior Internal Auditor

Overview

In this role, you will support the UK MEA Internal Audit plan by conducting financial, operational, and regulatory audits, including SOX-focused reviews. You will assess traditional and emerging digital asset activities, ensuring risk-based findings and practical remediation. You’ll work with stakeholders across locations to strengthen governance, outsourcing, and technology controls. The position offers exposure to a transforming, multinational financial services environment and opportunities to shape controls in a growing digital-asset footprint.

Responsibilities

• Plan, execute and complete audits, producing work papers, findings, and audit reports
• Audit traditional financial services activities and emerging digital asset/crypto lines, including governance, outsourcing, and tech risks
• Ensure findings are proportional, risk-based and aligned with business complexity
• Adhere to internal audit methodology, standards, procedures and regulatory expectations
• Follow up on audit actions and assess remediation effectiveness
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across locations and business lines
• Note: responsibilities may be expanded as needed

Key requirements

• Degree in Accounting/Business/Audit/Finance or related field
• 2-3 years of external/internal audit experience in multinational financial services, fintech, or crypto environments
• Understanding of UK regulatory requirements for investment firms/payments and familiarity with FCA preferred
• Knowledge of governance, AML/CTF, outsourcing, SOX and internal control frameworks
• Experience planning and performing audits, including testing, documenting findings and drafting reports
• Experience working in cross-border, multicultural environments and communicating with diverse stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with practical, risk-based solution focus
• Ability to work in an international team and meet deadlines
• High integrity, professional skepticism, attention to detail, commitment to quality
• Willingness to continuously learn about regulatory, regulatory and business developments
• Solid computer skills; experience with audit-management tools, data analytics and AI-assisted auditing tools is a plus

• cross-cultural communication
• stakeholder management
• professional skepticism
• audit-management tools
• data analytics
• technology-enabled auditing techniques

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