Overview

About BNY MELLON

BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations, or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment and wealth management and investment services in 35 countries. As of March 31, 2021, BNY Mellon had $41.7 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $2.2 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com Follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon or visit our newsroom at www.bnymellon.com/newsroom for the latest company news.

Job Summary

We are recruiting for a Senior Auditor II to work within our BNY Mellon European Bank Audit department on EMEA and Global Business audit projects. The role will report into the Audit Senior Project Leader based in Brussels, being a direct report of the BNY Mellon European Bank Chief Auditor, working with a team primarily based in the Brussels, Luxembourg and Wroclaw locations. The individual will: 

• lead or perform audit related activities and works as a team member on audit assignments.
• lead risk-focused fieldwork, in accordance with Internal Audit policies, methodologies, and standards in order to identify meaningful issues, risks and other exposures in the area of the company being audited,
• draw on extensive experience and/or specialist skills in technology (advanced operational knowledge is a plus) to plan and deliver audits.
• manage tasks and problem solving with little day-to-day oversight.
• ensure testing is adequately thorough and accurate to allow an evaluation of the control environment by identifying existing and emerging risks, along with the adherence to company policies and procedures, audit methodologies, and all applicable regulations.

Responsibilities

• Complete testing/audits of primarily business and technology processes. 
• Identifies meaningful issues and tracks remediation to completion. 
• Demonstrates an understanding of businesses and processes through flowcharting, work papers, analysis, issue identification and discussions with project leaders and auditees on projects of varying complexity.
• Able to query business clients and colleagues in Audit to understand the underlying processes and procedures necessary to evaluate the control risks.
• Demonstrate project management skills to work on and successfully deliver multiple audits at any one time.
• Performs research independently and has adequate knowledge of statistical sampling and risk analysis to perform research with technical accuracy. 
• Follow-up and validate audit actions to resolve issues.
• Engages in relevant training regarding audit, businesses, information technology controls, regulations, or a particular specialty and actively seeks to apply this knowledge in their role and pass it on to the wider audit team. 
• Thinks beyond past routines about new issues or risks.
• Applies a deep understanding of core and advanced concepts in data analytics, relevant technology, the regulatory environment, the financial services industry, project management and business processes and can integrate these concepts into audit processes and leverage them to solve difficult problems and create innovative solutions.  
• Develops relationships with the Audit Project Leader and/or audit management, other Audit associates, and clients.
• Take steps to build knowledge of the businesses and associated Technology Risk landscape
• Effectively communicate audit issues to stakeholders, both verbally and in writing

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience required. 5-7 years of total work experience preferred.
• Prior experience in Audit or the relevant speciality area preferred.
• Additional core skill requirements include understanding of the applied and interpretation of analytics results for Audit, critical thinking and problem solving.
• Relevant Technology Audit / Risk related certification such as Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) preferred.

Experiences

• Ideally solid knowledge of Technology regulations in Europe.
• Proven track record of managing and delivering risk based projects.
• Good knowledge of the Technology services industry.
• Knowledgeable on good governance practices.
• Fluent in English. Other languages (French, Dutch or German) are considered an asset.

Our offer 

• Full time contract of employment
• City Centre locations close to main railway station and flexible working arrangements
• Flexible benefits package, including life and medical insurance, health screening, fitness discount programme, employee assistance program
• Award-winning Wellbeing Program supporting you with your unique health and wellbeing needs
• Pension scheme 
• On-site childcare and a parental buddy programme
• Exciting opportunities for career and global mobility
• Diverse and inclusive environment
• Employee Referral Program
• Recognition programmes
• A multitude of opportunities to get involved in charity projects and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)