Internal Control Officer

Salary: £26,000 – £30,000 per year

Our client, a well-established Commercial Bank is looking for an Internal Control Officer to join their team located in the Cheshire.

The prime purpose for the role will be to carry out independent audit review of business operations, regulatory compliance and financial systems within the Bank.

Responsibilities
• Perform an ongoing programme on control monitoring and testing across all areas of the Bank.
• Monitoring departments’ timely implementation of risk and compliance recommendations.
• Working with different business areas to ensure they are compliant.
• Investigating control failures whilst promoting the robust compliance & risk awareness culture of the Bank.
• Administration of the Internal Control thematic reviews.
• Manage internal audit observations while providing metric and reports to management.
• Undertake analysis and prepare management reporting on key control remediation activities.
• Provide support and oversight of all activities that deliver the risk framework.
• Perform independent reconciliations of the Bank’s accounts and investigate any issues arising from the reconciliations.

Skills and Experience required:
• Proficient with Microsoft Office:Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Good communication Skills verbal and written
• Excellent organisation skills with good attention to detail.
• Methodical and accurate
• Understands how to treat confidential information
• Flexible and able to prioritise a changing to do list
• Friendly and helpful, trustworthy and reliable
• Good numeracy and analytical ability