5th November 2025
VP – Internal Auditor (Cyber Security)
Cyber Security
London
£100,000 - £110,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus
VP – Internal Auditor (Cyber Security)
London, Docklands (Hybrid)
£100,000 – £110,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus
On behalf of a Leading financial services organisation, I am seeking an experienced Internal Auditor with a background in a Cyber Security environment. The Vice President will be primarily focused on leading audits, continuous monitoring, issue validation, and leading on departmental improvement initiatives. It is important that the Vice President be versatile and flexible in working in a team on a larger/complex audit, or individually on less complex audits under the direction of the Director.
The organisation offers hybrid working with a non-negotiable 2 days a week in their London office, therefore you must be within reasonable commuting distance to London.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain working relationships with peers across the organization.
- To monitor strategic developments within the business to highlight any unidentified risks or potential control issues.
- Perform continuous monitoring of the business through frequent stakeholder engagement, under the direction of the director, to identify emerging risks and issues and report to audit management and the Audit & Finance Committee.
- Identify areas for improvement within Internal Audit and play a leading role on department improvement initiatives.
- Support and provide input into the Internal Audit risk assessment process to inform the Audit Plan.
- Support the director in strategic improvements including Continuous Auditing, Data Analytics, Development of control Dashboards, and Automated Testing Capabilities.
- Stand in for the director in times of absence to represent the Internal Audit Information Security team at Tollgates, Continuous Monitoring sessions, and provide Senior Management with progress updates.
- Execution of planning and testing for complex technology, information security audits and high-level reviews, including designing test strategies, audit test papers and drafting of audit findings.
- Soft reviews of and coaching to more junior IA members’ work (Senior Associate and Associate).
- Validation to confirm management’s remediation of audit and regulatory issues.
- Management and tracking of businesses remediation activities.
- Actively contributing to the ongoing improvement of audit practices and methodology.
- Assist the wider Internal Audit Division in areas of Information Security, including participating in integrated audits, providing Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in planning activities, and knowledge sharing.
- Provide timely progress updates within the reporting system and to the director in the daily stand-up calls.
- Proactively maintain knowledge, skills, and disciplines, with on-going professional development.
- Identify and share useful learning opportunities for other Internal Audit team members.
- Maintain the professional standard of the Internal Audit function and work within its agreed Terms of Reference and IIA standards/guidelines, Charter, and Mandate.
- Demonstrate adaptability to ensure that the audit focus is maintained on key issues, under the guidance of audit senior management.
Experience/Skills required:
- Experience working within Internal Audit in a financial services environment (ideally banking) and audit experience across a range of different information technology in a financial institution.
- Ability to provide technical Subject Matter Expertise during integrated audits.
- Experience and understanding of regulatory requirements, eg, FRBNY, FCA.
- Strong IT security and technical knowledge with approximately 8+ years of experience within the industry.
- Working experience with common security/technology risk frameworks, for instance, ISO 27000, NIST, CIS Critical Security Controls, Cloud Controls Matrix, COBIT, and IIA GTAGs.
- Working experience with regulatory standards/requirements (US, UK) ie, GDPR, BCBS 239, FFIEC 101, 3402, CHAP.
- Working experience and/or knowledge of Security domains including Access management, Threat management, Incident response and recovery, Data protection, Vulnerability management, Monitoring and logging, Physical security, and Security risk management and governance.
- Working experience and/or knowledge of application controls, input/output, configuration, application controls.
- Confident in managing integrated and non-integrated audits, and leading other audit team members.
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills (verbal and written), including the ability to deliver challenging messages at all levels of management.
- Ability to engage stakeholders.
- Innovative problem-solving approach. Able to think on a broad scale about issues affecting the company, not just those related to IA or the control environment.
- Able to interpret internal and external issues and recommend solutions/best practices.
- Audit/Project Management Certifications (desirable) – CMIIA (UK), CIA (US), CISA, CGEIT, CISSP, CISM, CompTIA, SANS, ISC2, Prince2, Agile etc.
Consultant - Brendan Connolly
Telephone: 0207 392 7512
Email: brendan.connolly@spencer-rose.com
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