Senior Audit Manager - Finance Audit

Brand:  HSBC
Area of Interest: 
Location: 

Birmingham, GB, B1 1HQ

Work style:  Hybrid Worker
Date:  18 Jul 2025

Some careers open more doors than others!

If you’re looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join HSBC and experience the possibilities. Whether you want a role that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.


Internal Audit provides independent and objective assurance as to whether the design and operational effectiveness of our framework of risk management, control and governance processes, as designed and represented by management, is adequate.

A varied role offering opportunity and exposure to multiple areas within the Bank.

In this role you will:

• Lead, or participate in, individual audits to ensure that the scope, approach, resourcing and logistics of an audit are appropriately planned, executed and finalised.
• Obtain, analyse and synthesise information for reporting on the adequacy of the internal control environment, and management actions.
• Work effectively with multiple stakeholders including Global Finance first and second line teams.
• Based on audit fieldwork, draft audit findings and executive summaries, which articulate key issues and risks, and identify root causes.  Grade the materiality of audit findings, identify root causes and assess the overall control rating and active risk management rating.
• Maintain leading edge technical and business knowledge, with a focus on prudential risk management.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Knowledge and experience of Global Finance activities, including Financial Reporting, Finance Operations, Global Treasury, Regulatory Reporting or Stress Testing.
• An understanding of major global regulatory frameworks, financial reporting standards, prudential risk management, and related compliance requirements.
• Experience working in relevant environments including Internal Audit, External Audit, Finance, Regulatory Reporting or Risk Management.
• Strong managerial skills, written and verbal communication skills, analytical problem solving, organisational, lateral thinking and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.

This role is based in either Birmingham or Edinburgh, Hybrid Working. 


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