Role: Technical Writer - Financial Audit
Location: Birmingham, UK - Hybrid (2-3 days a week)
Type: Permanent
Language Preference - ENGLISH (Advance/Expert)
Key Tasks / Responsibilities:
• Working in close collaboration with SMEs to create robust documentation to support the closure of internal and external audit findings.
• Determining the full list of artifacts required to evidence the remediation of audit findings, and then creating and owning the plan to support their timely production.
• Tracking the production of the supporting artifacts and driving others to meet the planned deadlines, thereby ensuring they are created on-time for the closure documentation.
• Own the production of the documentation throughout its lifecycle, including: being the primary author, eliciting information from SMEs (facilitating workshops when required), iterating and tracking document versions, securing evidence and gaining the various approvals required.
Requirements:
• Prior experience of writing formal IT documentation which has been subject to successful audit.
• Strong written and spoken English communication skills.
• Proven experience of writing formal process documentation for IT functions that stand up to audit scrutiny – e.g. policies, procedures, term of reference, senior management briefings.
• Ability to scrutinize documentation in an objective, unbiased way, as though through the eyes of an auditor – to identify shortcomings, gaps and potential risk exposure.
• Ability to quickly understand new technical information and concepts.
• Ability to produce documents to effectively and efficiently communicate with audiences who are unfamiliar with the subject matter.
• Ability to quickly build relationships, collaborate and influence to achieve results in a fast-moving, diverse, global environment.
• Be able to work to pressing deadlines, including being flexible and accommodating changes to plans and demand.
• Must have excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office (especially Word).
• Be able to understand the relationship between processes and their underlying controls and risks.
• Having experience of interacting with Banking Regulators, directly or indirectly, would be beneficial.
Note: Sponsorship won't be provided.