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Form of workJOB TITLE: Audit Portfolio Lead - Climate Risk and Sustainability
SALARY: £86, 964 - £102,310
LOCATION: Edinburgh, Bristol & London
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our Bristol, Edinburgh or London hubs.
About this opportunity
An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Group Audit and Conduct Investigations (GA&CI) function and the Financial Risk audit community as a Portfolio Lead in Climate Risk & Sustainability. This role provides the opportunity to shape as well as lead audits, harnessing a deep understanding of Climate Risk & Sustainability risks to provide high quality independent assurance on the effectiveness of controls.
Responsibilities (day to day tasks of the role) include:
Audit Planning: planning for a portfolio of audits, requesting/selecting resources and collaborating closely with collaborators to discuss and propose scope and timelines.
Audit Execution: leading delivery of a portfolio of audits, delivering audits on time and within budget, ensuring quality of audit file and coverage of agreed scope, ensuring compliance with audit methodology, and providing progress updates to the Head of Audit and Audit Directors.
Audit report preparation and agreement with collaborators.
Supervise the follow-up and subsequent remediation of audit issues identified.
Coaching and supporting colleagues in Climate & Sustainability risks.
Providing SME insights and support.
Driving personal growth and continuous improvement.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping Group Sustainability for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.
What you'll need
5 years+ experience of leading and delivering complex, thematic, end to end and integrated audits covering areas like Climate Risk, Sustainability, and financial risk.
Has experience of auditing emerging risk areas, such as Climate Risk and Sustainability, and has contributed to Executive level insights through consideration of themes, data and assumptions analysis. Able to review Group or Business Unit strategic delivery end to end (business as usual and change) and communicate challenges with senior collaborators.
Experience in working with senior stakeholders on business agility, offering experience, knowledge, and guidance on how best to leverage Agile methodology to achieve growth ambitions, and an agent for change.
Experience of consolidating insights and identifying thematic messages as well as influencing management on strategic direction. Able to bring outside strategies, perspectives and challenges to life.
The ability to analyse, understand and communicate data as information, and to use data to drive effective audit outcomes.
Experience of leading the resourcing for a function or business and directing overall objectives for team, taking ownership for resourcing decisions, even when complicated.
Experience of providing support and coaching for junior colleagues as well as leading projects where you have shown leadership decision making and leading to time, resource, and quality.
And any experience of these would be really useful
Good knowledge of credit risk associated with climate and Sustainability risks across both Consumer, Commercial Banking and IP&I products.
Acts as an inspiring leader advising Leaders on area performance and growth opportunities. Shapes a data driven approach to decision making.
A good awareness of emerging risks impacting the group like nature Risk and the increasing level of regulatory disclosures required on the topics of Net Zero, Sustainability, Climate Risk and Nature.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* An annual performance-related bonus
* Share schemes including free shares
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
* 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!
