Senior Auditor IT, Krakow, Poland

Euroclear Internal Audit is transforming to become a trusted strategic partner and a strong enabler of the Group's purpose and long ‑ term strategy. As we evolve, we continue to build on our strengths—engaged people, diverse teams, and close collaboration across locations—while increasing our focus on the areas that matter most for Euroclear's future.

We are looking for talented professionals who want to further shape the future of Internal Audit and contribute to a high ‑ impact, forward ‑ looking function.

Joining Internal Audit at Euroclear means becoming part of a dynamic function that:

• Plays a key role in supporting the Group's strategic ambitions
• Acts as a trusted advisor to the business
• Helps the Board and Executive Management protect the assets, value, reputation, and sustainability of Euroclear
• Provides risk-based assurance and insights on governance, management, and internal controls
• Encourages innovation, continuous learning, and cross ‑ functional exposure
• Offers an inclusive, diverse and collaborative environment
• Is working from five locations: Brussels, London, Paris and Amsterdam with a team of 50+ professionals

Team

You will join our Technology, Cyber, Digital & Physical Security Internal Audit team, which consists of about 15 colleagues.

Role & Responsibilities

As a Senior Auditor, you will contribute to the execution of audit assignments in the internal audit domain of Technology, Cyber, Digital & Physical Security across the entire Euroclear Group. You will play a crucial role in helping to deliver relevant, timely, and value ‑ adding insights to stakeholders across the organisation, while upholding the highest standards of independent assurance.

You will report to the Audit Director and work closely with the Senior Audit Manager and your colleagues auditors.

Key activities include

• Contributing to audits in the domain or leading less complex audits with some guidance
• Executing all audit assignments in accordance with audit professional standards and the Euroclear Group Audit Methodology;
• Producing quality work papers, in conformance with the Euroclear Group Internal Audit Methodology;
• Raising relevant risk control issues, identifying root causes, to trigger improvement actions
• Verbally communicating results in a clear and problem solving manner;
• When leading the audit mission, demonstrate autonomy in audit planning, executing and reporting, which includes:
  • coordination of the mission;
  • management of all communication;
  • tracking of the audit planning and budget with regular progress reports to Audit Management;
  • reliability and quality of the work and deliverables;
• You will also contribute to the regular audit risk assessments and continuous business audit monitoring, liaising with (Senior) Management, to feed the audit plan. You will follow-up the implementation of agreed action plans.

  Provide end ‑ to ‑ end audit assurance

• Contribute to the assessment of topics across organisational boundaries, including but not limited to client journeys, digitalisation, financial controls, resilience capabilities, key risks and change/transformation areas.
• Contribute to the assess whether the risk and control environment fits with what the company needs today and, in the future, in line with its Strategic objectives and expected market/regulatory evolutions, considering evolving geopolitical context.
• Contribute to the delivery of actionable insights that support strategic and operational decision-making.

• Engage with stakeholders on core business priorities such as growth initiatives, change programmes, sustainability, cyber security, and operational excellence and provide meaningful audit insights
• Ensure Internal Audit is “at the table” for key decisions while maintaining independence.

• Evaluate and provide insight on people, culture, technology, digitisation, and organisational transformation.
• Contribute to strengthening Euroclear's long-term foundations.

• Use advanced analytics and automation tools to enhance audit execution and insight ‑ generation.
• Contribute to the evolution of a more technology ‑ enabled and innovative audit function.

Required qualifications

• You have worked at least 5 years as an internal or external auditor (Third Line) and/or
• 5 years of experience at the First Line (business) and / or Second Line level (Risk Management/Compliance) - depending on the area you are recruited for.
• Experience of assessment of IT end-to-end controls including both applicative and infrastructural controls in a financial services environment.
• You hold an internal audit certification or are motivated to obtain such certification (for example CIA, CISA, CISSP). Possessing other relevant certifications will be an added advantage (e.g. Enterprise Risk Management, Financial Risk Management).
• IT background, experienced working day-to-day in the IT domain, ideally in a financial services environment.
• You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You are open to travel to the other Euroclear entities when needed (10%).

Soft skills

You are someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, able to deal with a degree of ambiguity and uncertainty, and brings:

• A collaborative, curious mindset
• An outward looking view
• The confidence to engage with and convince stakeholders at all levels
• A keen interest in business strategy, risk & control matters and technology & digital
• A growth mindset to further develop your skills within a future ‑ ready audit function
• You are a team player with strong work ethics
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, with the ability to see the big picture
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work constructively with a range of diverse stakeholders
• You can influence, constructively challenge and negotiate with your stakeholders.
• You are organised and able stick to committed deadlines during an assignment
• You are willing to continuously learn about new topics
• You are able to build relationships in a consultative style in order to see the business perspective;
• You are self-confident and motivated, able to work quite independently and as a member of team made of diverse individuals;
• You have a sound business judgement and solid business acumen
• You have a forward-looking, strategic thinking and you bring a client centric perspective in order to add value to the business
• You are literate with data, new technologies and Artificial intelligence tools and are willing to develop in those areas
• You are able to work with the business in a partnership mode.