• Lead the London team framework below Head level, including appraisal calibration, development planning, hiring below Director level and promotion recommendations for Senior Auditor, Lead Auditor and Manager grades.
• Coach Senior Managers, Managers, Lead Auditors and staff on scoping, evidence, sampling, root-cause analysis, report writing, stakeholder management and committee-ready messaging.
• Build succession depth and resilience through cross-portfolio deployment, cross-training, documented handovers and a visible career pathway.

Operating Model Uplift

• Support delivery of internal activities related to methodology refinement and engagement-level quality sampling, ensuring workpapers, reports and sign-off decisions can withstand management, committee and other stakeholders.
• Drive practical improvements to ways of working, including integrated audit scoping, reusable playbooks, sharper reporting, data-led testing and stronger linkage between business and technology controls.
• Consolidate inputs, risk assessments, entity priorities, regulatory themes, horizontal audit candidates and cross-entity thematic papers into a coherent annual planning recommendation for Head and committee approval.
• Champion the responsible adoption of analytics, automation and AI-enabled techniques in audit planning, testing and reporting, ensuring efficiency gains are matched by appropriate governance, human oversight and evidential quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the risk-based audit plan: Lead the development, refresh and delivery oversight of the EMEA risk-based audit plan, ensuring coverage is calibrated to entity risk, regulatory expectations, committee priorities, cyclical coverage principles and available audit capacity.
• Primary oversight of clearing franchise audit delivery: delivery oversight, with personal involvement in material, technical or regulatory-sensitive CCP engagements, including direct interaction with senior clearing management.
• Deliver the wider mandate through portfolio owners: Oversee delivery across trading venues, regulated utilities and cross-entity horizontal audits through the Managers as delivery leads, while retaining mandate-wide visibility over plan status, emerging risks, material findings and resourcing pressure.
• Report with impact: Produce and challenge concise, evidence-based reports that trace issues to criteria, root cause, consequence and practical action, and ensure that messages are understandable to senior executives.
• Govern quality: Perform quality reviews, and challenge overstatement, unsupported conclusions and unclear audit narratives.
• Lead people: Set expectations for professional standards, judgment, writing quality, stakeholder management and career development; coach managers and staff to operate with confidence in senior forums.

Knowledge and Experience

• Significant Internal Audit, assurance, risk or control leadership experience in complex, regulated financial services like market infrastructure, clearing, exchange, post-trade or adjacent environments.
• Ability to oversee audit delivery across multiple portfolios, business models and jurisdictions, including through senior managers and managers.
• Strong understanding of governance, operational risk, regulatory expectations, risk and control frameworks and the role of Internal Audit under a Board-approved charter and professional standards framework.
• Demonstrable ability to lead complex audits as an audit mandate controller, including scoping, testing strategy, evidence evaluation, root-cause analysis, issue drafting and senior stakeholder challenge.
• Ability to brief senior leaders, handle difficult Q&A and communicate clearly under pressure.
• People leadership capability - coaching, calibration, development planning, performance conversations and promotion or hiring input for high-performing audit teams.
• Strong written communication - concise, precise, evidence-based, proportionate and suitable for executive, Board and regulator-facing audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline such as Finance, Economics, Business, Accounting, Engineering, Sciences, Law, Risk or Technology.

Desirable Knowledge and Experience

• Master’s degree in relevant field preferred.
• Experience with exchanges, clearing houses, CCP risk management, margining, collateral, default management, treasury/liquidity, market surveillance, regulatory reporting, operational resilience, benchmark administration or trade repository operations.
• Exposure to UK, EU, Singapore or ADGM regulatory regimes relevant to CCPs, trading venues, benchmark administration or trade repositories.
• Experience coordinating integrated business and technology audits, including joint scoping with IT audit teams and evaluation of technology-enabled controls.
• Professional credentials or advanced study such as CIA, CISA, ACA/ACCA/CPA, CFA, FRM, MBA, LLM or equivalent qualification.

Working Style and Values

• Independence with partnership: Maintain objectivity while engaging management constructively and fairly.
• Mandate-wide mindset: Look across portfolios and entities, not only at one franchise, to identify common themes, duplication, gaps and leverage points.
• Methodology with judgment: Apply professional standards rigorously, then focus effort where risk and materiality are highest.
• Clarity over volume: Prefer sharp analysis, concise drafting and direct messages that help committees make decisions.
• Calm under challenge: Prepare thoroughly, communicate early and land difficult messages with composure.
• Technical curiosity: Understand the business model, the control design and the enabling technology deeply enough to ask sharper questions.