Senior Internal Audit Manager

Phoenix Group
Edinburgh
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Finance & AccountingSkills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Analytical thinking","Relationship building","Communication"]

Lead Group Internal Audit as a senior assurance partner, providing strategic insight into the effectiveness of risk management, governance, and controls across Customer, Operations, and outsourced service providers. Manage and develop a team of audit managers and auditors to deliver a risk-based audit portfolio, ensure quality and timely delivery, verify management actions, and support ad-hoc initiatives aligned to the Group’s strategy and audit vision. Build influential relationships with senior stakeholders and communicate complex findings to executive and board committees.

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Phoenix Group
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Senior Internal Audit Manager

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Job Summary

Lead Group Internal Audit as a senior assurance partner, providing strategic insight into the effectiveness of risk management, governance, and controls across Customer, Operations, and outsourced service providers. Manage and develop a team of audit managers and auditors to deliver a risk-based audit portfolio, ensure quality and timely delivery, verify management actions, and support ad-hoc initiatives aligned to the Group’s strategy and audit vision. Build influential relationships with senior stakeholders and communicate complex findings to executive and board committees.
Location: Edinburgh
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Finance & Accounting
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide strategic assurance and influential insight into risk management, governance, and control effectiveness across key business and outsourced activities.
  • •Lead and develop a team to deliver a portfolio of risk-based audits with accountability for quality, impact, and timely delivery.
  • •Oversee management action verification to confirm issues are addressed appropriately.
  • •Support ad-hoc projects across diverse areas, focusing on outcomes aligned with the Group’s strategy and audit vision.
  • •Establish and maintain trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, communicating complex and challenging messages effectively and helping evolve the risk-based audit plan with the Head of Audit.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 100,000 annually
Perks:Private MedicalAnnual LeavePensionLife AssuranceIncome ProtectionVolunteer Days

Key Requirements

  • •Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop an audit team to create an inclusive, high-performing environment.
  • •Strong leadership and resource management, including planning and organisation, balancing audit delivery with competing responsibilities, and managing multiple priorities.
  • •Strategic and commercial awareness to understand the organisation’s strategy and evolving risk profile across customer, operations, and outsourced service provider control frameworks.
  • •Sound judgement and analytical skills to assess complex risks and controls, identify root-cause themes, and articulate high-level control opinions to senior management.
  • •Previous internal or external audit/risk assurance experience in financial services is required; professional qualification (e.g., CMIIA/PIIA/ACCA/ICAS/CIMA) is desirable but not essential.
Experience:Financial services
Skills:LeadershipCoachingAnalytical thinkingRelationship buildingCommunication
Certifications:CMIIAPIIAACCAICASCIMA

Company Brief

Phoenix Group
A UK long-term savings and retirement business operating brands including Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure, managing pensions, annuities and wealth solutions with c.12 million customers and large assets under administration.
Industry: Wealth Management
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1782
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