Senior Auditor - Financial Crimes

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Overview

Role : Internal Audit & Governance (IAG) professional focused on data-driven risk assessment and assurance within the financial crime domain. IAG is a global function with 300+ team members across nine countries. The team aligns risk areas to provide comprehensive, risk-based audit coverage and includes a Professional Practices group that manages audit operations, quality, regulatory relations, reporting, training and development, and internal capabilities and technologies. The IAG vision emphasizes data-driven, technology-enabled assurance, timely risk insights, and developing colleagues into enterprise leaders. IAG is advancing audit with initiatives such as Audit NextGen, Data-Driven Continuous Auditing, and the Auditor of the Future.

Key Responsibilities

• Own audit tasks across all stages of the audit lifecycle on concurrent core and integrated projects, across multiple business areas and teams.
• Participate in walkthroughs with stakeholders to understand, credibly challenge, assess, and document financial crime related processes, risks, and controls.
• Execute testing of process design and operating effectiveness across global, US, and international audits, focusing on financial crime risk domains.
• Validate internal audit or regulatory issues, assist in root cause analysis, and document risk-based evaluations of audit findings.
• Validate corrective actions by management to address findings and ensure sustainability.
• Develop familiarity with financial crime risks across all lines of business globally and across both 1st and 2nd lines of defense.
• Maintain audit proficiency through ongoing professional development including data literacy skills.

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Location : Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

For reference, this job posting is intended for internal and external candidates seeking a Financial Auditor role in Madrid. Referrals may be mentioned for visibility but do not alter qualifications or responsibilities.

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