This is a rare opportunity to join a fast growing Internal Audit function at a pivotal moment. As part of the Audit Leadership Team, you’ll have real influence, hands on responsibility, and the chance to help shape the future of the function. It offers a senior leadership role in a compact, high impact team where you will steer how the function evolves, own strategic initiatives such as GRC implementation and QA enhancements, and lead a hands on pod model that enables coaching, development, and visible results. If you’re a self starter who enjoys building capability, being close to the business, and thriving in a high change environment, this is a role with genuine long term potential.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Audit Manager to lead one of our audit pods and play a central role in delivering a high quality, risk based audit plan. You will drive improvement across the control environment, strengthen risk management, and contribute to the evolution of our methodology, technology, and ways of working as the function continues to grow.

Reporting to the Head of Internal Audit, you will work closely with senior stakeholders across the business and help enhance combined assurance, insight, and the maturity of our Internal Audit capability.

What You’ll Do:

Lead and deliver audits

• Oversee the full audit lifecycle, from scoping and fieldwork to reporting and action tracking.
• Produce clear, concise audit reports that influence decision making and lead to tangible improvement.
• Apply and enhance our methodology, ensuring quality, consistency, and timely delivery.
• Use data and technology to increase audit insight and efficiency.

Develop capability

• Line manage and coach a small team of auditors, building technical and professional skills.
• Foster an open, collaborative team culture and support knowledge sharing across the function.

Enhance the Internal Audit function

• Partner with the Head of Internal Audit and fellow Senior Audit Manager to refine methodology, QA, MI, and reporting.
• Support major strategic initiatives, including the design and implementation of a new GRC platform and readiness for EQAR.
• Contribute to thematic analysis, risk assessment, and medium term planning.

Engage senior stakeholders

• Build strong, influential relationships across the business.
• Communicate results with clarity and confidence, and ensure timely remediation.
• Work closely with Risk, Compliance, and other assurance providers to align coverage and avoid duplication.

Stay ahead of regulatory and business change

• Monitor emerging risks and regulatory expectations, including Consumer Duty.
• Recommend thematic or exceptional audit work to ensure the plan remains relevant and risk focused.

What We’re Looking For:

Essential

• Strong Internal Audit experience in Financial Services.
• Proven ability to lead audits and guide the work of more junior auditors.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Sound judgement, commercial awareness, and an ability to present complex issues simply.
• A positive, growth oriented mindset with a willingness to build, improve, and take ownership.

Useful experience

You don’t need all of the below, but experience or interest in any of these areas is valuable:

• Investment platform operations, CASS, trading and dealing, customer journeys, or FCA regulation.
• Technology and data risk, cyber security, data governance, analytics, AI, or GRC systems.
• Risk and controls frameworks, operational resilience, third party risk, change management, or financial crime.

About AJ Bell

AJ Bell is one of the UK’s fastest-growing investment platform businesses, providing award-winning solutions for everyone, from professional financial advisers to first-time investors.

Today, over 644,000 customers trust us to manage more than £103.3 billion of assets. By continually striving to make investing simpler and more accessible, we’re helping more people take control of their financial futures.

We’re proud to be recognised as one of the UK’s Best 100 Companies to Work For for six consecutive years, and a Great Place to Work® in 2025 and 2026 a reflection of our supportive and collaborative culture.

What we offer

• Starting salary of ....
• 27 days holiday, increasing with service + buy/sell scheme + bank holidays
• 8% Pension with matched contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Share schemes (including free shares and BAYE)
• Health Cash Plan and discounted private healthcare
• Free onsite gym
• Enhanced family leave (subject to qualifying criteria)
• Travel and bike loan schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme

Life at AJ Bell

• Regular social events including summer and Christmas parties
• Learning and development opportunities tailored to you
• Casual dress code
• Friendly, supportive team environment

Our ways of working

We offer hybrid working, with a minimum of 50% of your working time per month spent in the office.

For new starters, there’s an initial period of full-time office working to help you settle in and build relationships.

Inclusion & diversity

We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and able to be themselves at work.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience and potential.