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The London team provides independent, reliable and timely assurance over the control environment across nine entities in London, Amsterdam, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, spanning clearing houses, exchanges, a trade repository and a benchmark administrator.\nThe Director, Internal Audit is a senior leadership role responsible for delivery of the EMEA Internal Audit mandate across the nine-entity remit. The role is accountable for the risk-based audit plan, audit delivery oversight, quality, methodology uplift, people leadership and operating-model resilience across the function. The role requires a senior assurance leader who can think like a risk architect, test like a scientist, report like a board advisor and lead like a coach.\nKey Interfaces\nHead of EMEA Internal Audit, Group Chief Audit Executive, IA leadership team, Global IT Audit, Audit Committee/Risk Committee secretariats, entity COOs and CROs, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Technology and external assurance/regulatory liaison teams as appropriate.\nCore Accountabilities\nAudit Mandate DeliveryOwn the risk-based EMEA Internal Audit plan process, including development, refresh, prioritization, sequencing and delivery oversight across clearing, trading venues, regulated utilities and cross-entity horizontal audits.\nEnsure audit coverage remains risk-based, timely, evidence-led and aligned to the Internal Audit Charter, professional standards, entity risk profiles and committee expectations.\nMaintain active visibility over portfolio delivery status, emerging risks, resourcing, material 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regulatory-sensitive issues, cross-entity findings and recurring remediation weaknesses promptly and clearly.\n\nPeople Leadership and Team ResilienceLead the London team framework below Head level, including appraisal calibration, development planning, hiring below Director level and promotion recommendations for Senior Auditor, Lead Auditor and Manager grades.\nCoach Senior Managers, Managers, Lead Auditors and staff on scoping, evidence, sampling, root-cause analysis, report writing, stakeholder management and committee-ready messaging.\nBuild succession depth and resilience through cross-portfolio deployment, cross-training, documented handovers and a visible career pathway.\n\nOperating Model UpliftSupport delivery of internal activities related to methodology refinement and engagement-level quality sampling, ensuring workpapers, reports and sign-off decisions can withstand management, committee and other stakeholders.\nDrive practical improvements to ways of working, including integrated audit scoping, reusable playbooks, sharper reporting, data-led testing and stronger linkage between business and technology controls.\nConsolidate inputs, risk assessments, entity priorities, regulatory themes, horizontal audit candidates and cross-entity thematic papers into a coherent annual planning recommendation for Head and committee approval.\nChampion the responsible adoption of analytics, automation and AI-enabled techniques in audit planning, testing and reporting, ensuring efficiency gains are matched by appropriate governance, human oversight and evidential quality.\n\nResponsibilities\nOwn the risk-based audit plan: Lead the development, refresh and delivery oversight of the EMEA risk-based audit plan, ensuring coverage is calibrated to entity risk, regulatory expectations, committee priorities, cyclical coverage principles and available audit capacity.\nPrimary oversight of clearing franchise audit delivery: delivery oversight, with personal involvement in material, technical or regulatory-sensitive CCP engagements, including direct interaction with senior clearing management.\nDeliver the wider mandate through portfolio owners: Oversee delivery across trading venues, regulated utilities and cross-entity horizontal audits through the Managers as delivery leads, while retaining mandate-wide visibility over plan status, emerging risks, material findings and resourcing pressure.\nReport with impact: Produce and challenge concise, evidence-based reports that trace issues to criteria, root cause, consequence and practical action, and ensure that messages are understandable to senior executives.\nGovern quality: Perform quality reviews, and challenge overstatement, unsupported conclusions and unclear audit narratives.\nLead people: Set expectations for professional standards, judgment, writing quality, stakeholder management and career development; coach managers and staff to operate with confidence in senior forums.\nKnowledge and 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