Job details

With a career in Internal Audit – Financial Markets at National Bank, you will be of great value to your business partners’ end to end process and therefore positively impact our clients and employees. As Lead Auditor for the Financial Markets team, you will contribute to audits focused on important risks. You will lead your colleagues and become a trusted advisor to your business partners by allowing them to implement innovative solutions to the identified issues. 

Your role

• Acquire cross-sector knowledge of Financial Markets, build a network of relationships with various partners, and maintain transparent communication with them
• Understand processes, governance, reporting and best practices
• Lead audit team members to identify significant risks that could have major repercussions on the processes examined (efficiency and optimization) and establish the audit strategy favoring a data-based approach 
• Assess internal controls, analyze the problems encountered, identify root causes in cooperation with the partners concerned and support them in identifying innovative and achievable solutions to eliminate the causes of the problem
• Draft the findings and present the results of the work carried out to the senior management and executives responsible for the processes being examined
• Ensure efficient collaboration with auditors from other Internal Audit teams, the second lines of defence and external auditors

Your team

Within the Internal Audit sector, you are part of a team of 13 collegues and you report to the Senior Manager - Internal Audit Financial Markets. This position will give you the opportunity to work as part of a dynamic, innovative team where management practices favour a good work/life balance and in a sector where you can constantly progress while taking on varied and more complex assignments. You will also have to periodically travel to our desks and foreign affiliates (Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Toronto, Calgary, etc) in accordance with the audit requirements.

Basic requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and seven years of relevant experience OR a master’s degree in a related field and five years of relevant experience OR university certificate and nine years of relevant experience
• Minimum five (5) years experience in risk management, operations, treasury, compliance and/or Internal/external audit
• Desire to learn the FM end to end process, such as Risk Management, Financial Markets Operation or Financial Markets teams
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and working on several files at the same time
• Initiative and ability to share your knowledge with team members
• Ability to receive coaching
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills, ability to simplify and synthesize information
• Ability to analyze data and draw conclusions
• Ability to persuade others using solid reasoning
• Independent, accountable, collaborative, good attention to detail and proactive
• Bilingualism, both spoken and written (English and French), essential as we collaborate with our colleagues and regulators outside of Quebec
• FRM/PRM, CFA (asset)
• CPA, CIA (asset)
• Knowledge of products and instruments traded in Financial Markets are helpful (asset)