Job Description
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Contract type: 18-month Fixed Term
Location: Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
We’re recruiting for an Audit Manager within Group Internal Audit at Royal London. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced internal auditor to play a key role in protecting the organisation’s assets, reputation and sustainability, while enhancing the overall risk and control environment.
You’ll bring strong knowledge of life and pensions products, alongside experience operating in change and transformation environments, helping to ensure key initiatives are delivered with robust risk management and controls in place.
As a specialist within the internal audit function, you’ll lead the delivery of impactful audit reviews end-to-end, working closely with senior stakeholders across the Group. You’ll provide insight and challenge on transformation programmes, influence business outcomes, and contribute to embedding a strong risk and control culture across Royal London.
About the role
- Lead the planning, execution and reporting of internal audit reviews end-to-end, ensuring delivery to time, cost and quality
- Deliver assurance across business change and transformation initiatives, assessing risks, controls and programme governance
- Apply specialist knowledge of life and pensions products to provide meaningful audit insights across the product lifecycle
- Act as a subject matter expert within internal audit, supporting Senior Audit Managers and contributing to audit planning and strategy
- Engage with and challenge senior stakeholders, including chairing meetings and influencing decisions on risk and control matters
- Ensure high-quality audit outputs, track audit actions and support their timely resolution
- Support continuous improvement by embedding data analytics, innovation and best practice into audit delivery.
About you
- Proven experience working as an internal auditor within a regulated financial services environment
- Strong understanding of life and pensions products and associated risks across the product lifecycle
- Significant experience supporting or auditing change, transformation or programme delivery environments
- Recognised professional qualification with substantial experience in audit, risk or assurance
- Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical capability, able to interpret complex information and generate clear, actionable insights
- Proactive, self-driven approach with the ability to work independently and support the development of others.
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About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling where all colleagues can thrive and experience a sense of belonging. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
Our inclusive values and people promise are core to who we are and how we work. It’s good for our people, and good for our customers too, because with an inclusive workplace and a diverse workforce we will reflect our members, customers and communities to deliver the best outcomes.
We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across our organisation. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected– whatever their background.
Workplace Initiatives
Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? |
No |
Leadership development programmes? |
Yes |
Mentoring programmes? |
Yes |
Coaching programmes? |
Yes |
Employee-led diversity networks? |
Yes |
Internal women’s networking groups? |
Yes |
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? |
Yes |
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: |
26 weeks (followed by 13 weeks half pay) |
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
4 weeks |
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
Gender pay gap reporting information 2022: |
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Mean pay gap: |
35.3% |
Median pay gap: |
33.9% |
Mean bonus gap: |
70.4% |
Median bonus gap: |
48.5% |
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? |
No |
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
No |
Graduate Programmes
We have a number of graduate programmes designed to deliver technical experts and future leaders.
Royal London Career Confidence programme
Our hybrid programme focuses on equipping you to feel empowered in your career and supported to explore new opportunities as they arise.
Apprenticeships
We offer a wide range of Apprenticeships that are targeted at both new joiners and existing colleagues.
Inclusion
We promote an inclusive culture at Royal London and have a range of inclusion networks for our colleagues to get involved with.
Our Women's Network is a community that celebrates and supports its members, helps everyone to learn more and inspires all of us to aim higher. Confidence and development are strong themes here and our events focus on three key areas of team working, finance, and wellbeing. There are two sub-groups to the Women’s Network – Women in Technology and our Periods and Menopause Group – focused on actions such as supporting over 20 new Periods and Menopause champions and launching guidance and training for leaders.