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BNY · 5 months ago

Vice President, Audit Project Leader - Global Financial Crimes

500 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15258, US

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

7+ years exp

BNY is a leading global financial services company that empowers its employees to create innovative solutions for clients. The Audit Project Leader will lead complex audits related to Financial Crimes and Sanctions, coach team members, and manage stakeholder relationships while ensuring compliance with industry regulations.

Financial Services

Responsibilities

Lead or participate in delivering complex and challenging Financial Crime and Sanctions audit assignments

Lead or participate in the end-to-end planning, fieldwork, and reporting of Financial Crime and Sanctions audit assignments - this will require consideration of complex, judgmental business processes and decisions

Coach colleagues, review their work, and give meaningful feedback

Identify meaningful issues impacting business and operations under review, challenging management to ensure appropriate remedial action has been taken to address the issues identified

Prepare draft audit reports

Follow-up of audit actions and where necessary testing their implementation

Build and proactively manage relationships with key stakeholders and participate in Continuous Monitoring activities

Act as a subject matter expert for Internal Audit on Financial Crimes and Sanctions topics

Contribute to the development of the annual audit plan

Maintain up to date knowledge of industry best practice and regulatory requirements

Carry out other ad-hoc tasks and projects as directed by audit senior management

Represent Internal Audit on projects and at management meetings/committees

Have a data first mindset and harness advanced data analytics to deliver value-added audit projects

Qualification

Financial Crimes knowledgeAudit experienceData analyticsUS Financial Crimes lawsMicrosoft ExcelPlanning skillsCommunication skillsTeamwork skillsSelf-starter

Required

7-10 years of experience working in financial services or banking, within Third Line Internal Audit or Second Line Risk or in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions related processes

Knowledge of US Financial Crimes related laws, rules, and regulations such as Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), USA Patriot Act and OFAC

Strong communication, influencing skills and confident in communicating with stakeholders both internal and external both written and verbal with the ability to influence at a senior level

Substantial operations, conduct, and governance understanding and exposure

Strong risk and control mindset

Self-starter with a high degree of self-sufficiency

Excellent planning, co-ordination, organization, and presentation skills

Thrives in a fast-paced environment and adaptable to change

Strong knowledge and use of Excel and other Microsoft software – PowerPoint, Word, Visio

Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills, including with colleagues remotely

Preferred

Experience in auditing second line of defense compliance preferred, but not mandatory

Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience and have completed a recognized relevant post-graduate qualification (e.g. CIA, CMIIA, ACA, ACCA, CAMS), but not essential