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Head of Audit – Cultural Transformation

Employer
Wilkinson and Associates
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
Jun 5, 2023

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Job Role
Auditor
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
WA is working with a retail banking group to help source a Head of Audit in Cultural Transformation. Our client's way of working means that you can find a work-life balance that suits you, with a mix of home and office working.

This role will feed into and support the banks' culture through; Culture Audits, Behavioural and Audit analysis, and leading on embedding key audit values in Group Audit Conduct Investigations (GACI).

Our client is on a journey to grow with purpose. A key part of this will be to build a culture that will enable the transformation of the bank. Group audit play a key role supporting this through the insight and assurance they provide and this exciting, new opportunity will to set up, lead, deliver and embed the way we provide assurance around the Group's People and Cultural change agenda!

Key

Responsibilities:

  • Audit the cultural transformation of the Group (in collaboration with the wider team) and provide quarterly recommendations to the Board and Audit Committee
  • Audit People Risk across the Group including; the employee lifecycle, skills, colleague experience, future of work and location strategy
  • Bring the Group's cultural changes to life in GACI, leading on key people initiatives
  • Work cross functionally and across all grades to understand behavioural risk across customers and employees and be responsible for the development and implementation of the audit response to the groups cultural transformation
  • Leading on People and Culture Audits, working with a team to proactively feed into the culture and behaviours for the Group through monitoring and assessing risks to the business and escalating as the need arises
  • Building strong relationships and provide timely insight and independent, outcome focussed assurance to influence the effectiveness of the overall control environment
  • Engaging with external stakeholders for benchmarking and insights in order to design innovative approaches to identify and understand behavioural risk
  • Promoting and role modelling the Group's values to drive cultural transformation and lead on key people initiatives that will support the growth
  • Acting as a career coach, performance and manager to colleagues

Required Experience Skills:
  • Qualifications or equivalent experience in behavioural science and/or organisational psychology
  • Ability to successfully influence and work collaboratively with senior stakeholders
  • Strong quantitative and qualitative analytics skills and ability to synthesise and present information and recommendations from findings
  • A leader who can articulate a clear direction and empower a team to deliver within a high performance culture - as a strong, visible role model, you will champion and advance the people plan and culture of the team and create an inclusive environment of psychological safety
  • Strong self-awareness with the desire to go above and beyond; strong drive and determination to achieve
  • Proven experience of delivering through people by collaborating and leveraging relationships; building capability across direct and in-direct teams to uplift business performance
  • Bold and courageous in leading a test-and-learn culture, and providing credible constructive challenge to status quo
  • Experience in Audit or Risk and control, is useful but not essential

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