Audit Portfolio Lead - IT Infrastructure Services

Location: Edinburgh or Bristol (Hybrid – 2 days per week in office)
Salary: £90,440 – £106,400 with additional Bonus and pension contribution up to 15%

Are you a strategic thinker with deep experience in IT Infrastructure and a passion for driving meaningful change through audit? This is your chance to join one of the UK’s leading financial institutions, where you’ll play a critical role in shaping and delivering high-impact audits across a complex and evolving tech estate.

As Audit Portfolio Lead, you’ll take ownership of a diverse and high-profile portfolio of audits focused on infrastructure resilience, cloud technologies, data centres, and system architecture. You’ll influence senior stakeholders, drive innovation, and help build a stronger, safer future for the organisation.

• Lead and oversee the delivery of a portfolio of audits, directly managing complex and high-risk audits

• Guide and support engagement leads, ensuring quality, insight and timely outcomes

• Translate infrastructure risks into clear business impact, supporting risk assurance and stakeholder understanding

• Drive innovation in audit methodology using data-driven techniques and automation

• Lead and develop a high-performing team, providing coaching, feedback and career support

• Shape audit strategy and contribute to broader risk, control and governance improvements

• Extensive experience auditing IT infrastructure, including networks, data centres, and cloud environments

• Strong knowledge of resilience, architecture, and operational risks across infrastructure services

• Relevant qualifications such as CISA, CISSP, or similar

• Ability to connect technical risk to strategic business outcomes

• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with proven experience influencing at senior levels

• A track record of leading teams, driving performance and fostering collaboration

• Experience with cloud architecture and security frameworks

• Understanding of middleware, mainframe, and batch management systems

• Familiarity with development lifecycle methodologies

• Ability to develop innovative audit tools or approaches