Quality Assurance Consultant - Audit & Frameworks

Wiltshire  ‐ Onsite
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Position: Project Assurance Consultant - Audit & Frameworks

Job type: Contract

Skills: Project Assurance, Project Management, Audit, Delivery

Location: Swindon

Duration: 6 months

Rate: £500 per day (negotiable depending on experience)

Outsource UK are actively seeking to recruit a Project Assurance Analyst for a 6 month initial contract based with our key financial services Client, that we are working with as a first tier supplier.

The Client:

  • Leading & forward thinking financial services organisation
  • Branches throughout the UK
  • Design their own products
  • Customer focused

The Job:

  • Identify and understand how IT division could better meet the requirements of the Business and our Regulators through the adoption of Quality frameworks that improve performance in Process, Controls and Risk Management.
  • Provide recommendations to IT Director and their leadership team on adoption of new frameworks or enhancement of existing ones.
  • Identify and champion areas for improvement and set targets for Process and Control owners (IT Senior Managers, Controllers and Heads of Department) and hold them, accountable for delivering improvement.
  • Maintain a map of internal and external Regulators and manage these relationships with regard to understanding their expectations and preparing IT Division for audits and assessments.
  • Understand frameworks and quality practices in other IT groups in the industry, introducing best practice the business.
  • Deliver an internal assurance review service for IT's Quality frameworks, preparing and delivering reports on findings for regulatory groups within Nationwide up to Audit Committee level.
  • Engage and manage specialist supplier resource where external validation is required to support the IT Governance Officer's own assessment and recommendations.

About you:

  • Broad understanding and appreciation of all services provided by an IT department.
  • A specialist area for deep-dive review, for example IT security, Project Management, Software Development Lifecycle.
  • Strong analytical skills, and a methodical approach to understanding and solving process and controls issues.
  • Strategic thinking to align the right quality frameworks to the needs of the IT Division.
  • Influencing skills to gain buy in and generate activity to deliver controls and process improvements.
  • Experience of Audit and Assessment against documented standards.

This role will be based in Swindon, Wiltshire, which is commutable from Cirencester, Gloucester, Oxfordshire, Bath, Bristol, Reading, Berkshire, Newport, Cardiff.

Please contact Katy Gregory or email your CV.

Please visit our website.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Outsource UK
Published at
03.08.2012
Project ID:
401819
Contract type
Freelance
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