IT & Data Auditor London 2024

We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly. With the defined benefit buy in / buy out space growing each year, Just continues to annually grow its business by over £4bn of assets.

We are a purpose driven company with compelling and credible goals. Quite simply, we help people achieve a better later life. We achieve this by providing competitive and innovative products, services, financial advice and guidance to help our customers achieve security, certainty and provide them with peace of mind in retirement.

That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement.

Purpose

The IT & Data Auditor will be required to:

• Assist the Audit Team in planning, executing, and reporting on audits of IT and Data Management controls and change/project management processes, in accordance with professional standards and best practices.
• Support the Audit Team with the delivery of audits by providing data analytics to test controls, identify anomalies, and evaluate risks, using various tools and techniques.
• Document audit findings and recommendations, ensuring they are clear, concise, and supported by sufficient evidence.
• Support the Audit Team in communicating audit results to management and other stakeholders, in a timely and professional manner.
• Assist in the follow-up of audit recommendations to ensure their timely implementation.

Examples of key activities

The IT & Data Auditor will be required to:

• Assist the Audit Team in planning, executing, reporting, and following up on IT and change / transformation audits, ensuring adherence to time and quality standards.
• Identify and assess key risks and controls, design and perform effective test procedures, document and communicate audit findings and recommendations, and produce clear and concise audit reports.
• Provide data analytics support to the Audit Team, using various tools and techniques to extract, transform, and visualize data from different sources, and generate risk and control insights.
• Use programming languages such as Python and R to automate data analysis tasks, enhance audit efficiency and effectiveness, and develop new capabilities and solutions.
• Make value-adding recommendations to management to address process and control weaknesses, and ensure compliance with relevant regulations, principles, and established company policies and procedures.
• Deliver ad-hoc tasks as assigned by the Audit Team to support the delivery of the core objectives of the function.
• Undertake continuous learning including obtaining a relevant professional qualification (e.g. IT, data or internal audit related)

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree or higher in computing and IT, cyber security, data analytics, data science, machine learning or a related field is required
• Relevant professional qualification e.g. CISA, CAP, aCAP, CompTIA Data +, IBM Data Science Professional Certificate, Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, PIIA, MIIA, ACA, ACCA, IFoA etc.- desirable, but not essential

Skills and knowledge

• Technical IT skills: Basic understanding of IT frameworks (e.g. COBIT, ITIL, ISO 27001, NIST) and IT transformation initiatives (e.g. cloud, agile, digitization, automation).
• Technical data analytics skills: Knowledge and experience of data analytics tools and techniques (e.g. SQL, Python, Tableau, PowerBI, R) and statistical and analytical methods.
• IT audit skills: Experience or exposure to IT audit methodologies, tools, and techniques (e.g. risk-based auditing, IT general and application controls, data analytics, IT security) and relevant regulations and best practices.
• Communication skills: Ability to document and present audit findings and recommendations and data analysis results and recommendations clearly, concisely, and objectively, using evidence, data, visual aids, and data storytelling techniques, and to communicate effectively with different audiences.
• Organizational skills: Ability to assist in audit planning, execution, reporting, and follow-up, and to manage time, resources, tasks, and deadlines efficiently and independently.
• Teamwork skills: Ability to work collaboratively with the Audit Team, share knowledge and expertise, seek and provide feedback and input, and contribute to audit process and quality improvement, and to build and maintain positive and professional relationships with stakeholders.
• Curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving skills: Ability to create new ideas to apply data analytics to organizational data to generate new risk or control insights, challenge the control environment or enhance risk assessments, research and learn new tools, techniques, and topics related to IT auditing and data analytics, and solve problems and overcome challenges logically and innovatively.

Company benefits

• A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
• Along with 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday
• Private Medical Cover and Income Protection, just in case
• A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targets
• Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company
• FREE access to the Headspace App, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and Trained Physical & Mental Health First Aiders (On-Site)
• A variety of Employee Funded Benefits available to you via our Online Benefits Portal
• Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones

Why Just?

We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. We’ve made good progress so far and encourage our people to make small and meaningful changes in their everyday lives, so that we can protect our planet for future generations.

Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all of our people feel proud to work at Just. We have joined a number of initiatives including the Race at Work Charter, designed to improve outcomes for employees from underrepresented backgrounds. We also run a Reciprocal Mentoring scheme for employees from a BAME background, those with a disability and those who identify as LGBTQ+. There are multiple employee network groups, which champion issues including race, gender, social mobility and neurodiversity.

What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other.