Lamiaa BENCHAMA

• Responsible for managing the audit activity for the Capital Markets Businesses in SG London Branch across all business lines and their support functions.
• Managed a team of 8 auditors in London and 1 in Bangalore : responsible for setting their annual objectives, reviewing their performance throughout the year including mid and end of year appraisal and assisting the Regional Audit Management in ensuring the staff adhere to SG policies and procedures, coaching of less experienced audit staff and upskilling the wider UK audit team through locally and globally defined trainings.
• Definition and management of the audit plan : Part of the global yearly audit plan arbitration week (Forum with the participation of all Global and Regional audit managers) and in charge of presenting the output of the risk assessment, the MARK audit plan proposal and agreeing on the MARK UK 5-years audit plan with details of coverage (Scope, Local/Global audit teams, Man-Days) , defining the macro objectives for all assignments in the covered perimeter , resource allocation and managing the efficient and effective delivery of assigned audits , responsible for the attainment of quality standards on all supervised audit assignments and ensuring mission execution is consistent with SG Audit methodology standards.
• Continuous Audit Monitoring (CAM): responsible for timely and effective Conitunous Monitoring for all Market Business Lines , management of the Continuous Monitoring with Senior Stakeholders and documentation of a summary with the key business/regulatory updates and escalation of the key issues to Audit Management.
• Coordination of recommendation follow-up: responsible for timely, effective management of the MARK UK stock of audit recommendations and the good quality of closure by local and non-local audit staff on UK recommendations.
• Responsible for quality and Continuous improvement : part of projects to improve the annual risk assessment process, Continuous monitoring and extended usage of data analytics in audit assignments. Providing the Regional Audit Head and his COO with all the information needed for their Board committees and participating to the audit Operational Committee to discuss staffing , audit performance, SG management requests and ongoing challenges/issues. Assisting local and global heads of audit with any adhoc regulatory requests pertaining to the UK MARK scope of activities.
• Support the delivery of adhoc special investigations requested by SG top management (Special review completed as of February 2023)
• Coordination with other regional teams for a global coverage including teams in Paris, Bangalore and New York
• Responsible for fostering a positive team culture throughout one to one bi-weekly audit staff catch-up, weekly operational meetings, sharing sessions with other regional teams (presentation of past audit mission, SPOTFIRE trainings, Regulatory and Market updates) and social events.

Vice President

Responsible for leading audit assignments on the capital market activities of a Global Investment Bank with a team of Business, Model and IT auditors:

• Leading and delivering global audit engagements with agreed budgets planned and timeframe. This includes regulatory reviews and Capital Market activities (FX, Emerging, Commodities and Flow credit activities, Benchmark Regulatory Reviews, Global clearing services, Sales teams Reviews, Outsourcing & Offshoring Services, etc).
• Proposing and implementing audit review strategies that efficiently balances overall mission requirements and allocated resources.
• Producing key audit documents such as tollgate presentations, diagnostic memorandums, stakeholder presentations and reports.
• Capital Market coordinator for the UK yearly Audit Risk Assessment exercise aiming at defining the Audit Plan for the upcoming year.
• Organizing and performing Continuous Monitoring meetings covering Fixed Income activities.
• Lead for preparing training to the team on Exotic and Structured products.

Associate

Taking part in audit assignments on the capital markets activities for a Global Investment Bank:

• Helping the HoM in defining the scope of the mission and the planning with agreed budgets and timeframe.
• Executing the testing plan of the mission.
• Follow-up of audit recommendations.

Taking part in audit assignments abroad for Société Générale subsidiaries for an average duration of 6 weeks including but not limited to:

• Investigation in a Special Fraud Assignment in a Société Générale local Branch in Marseille.
• Accounting and Finance Review assignment in Italy.
• Accounting and Customer Clients claims review in the Romanian Subsidiary (BRD).

• Analysing reporting needs from users.
• Support users in change management.
• Data consolidation related to financial products and customers.
• Dashboards production.

• Participation in several audit missions.
• Control and valorisation of different portfolios.

• Realisation of audit reports and a guide for new auditors.
• Participation in two internal audits mission.