Senior Audit Manager

Details
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Reference number

483914

Salary

£75,695 \- £82,326
London: £79,816 \- £87,681
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28\.97%
GBP

Job grade

Grade 6

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Finance

Internal Audit

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full\-time, Part\-time

Number of jobs available

3
Contents
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• Location


• About the job


• Benefits


• Things you need to know


• Apply and further information

Location
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Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Croydon, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Reading or Swansea

GIAA expects employees to maintain a regular presence at their contractual designated work location and to travel to other GIAA locations or client sites as required for critical meetings and field assignments. Consequently, the contractual location must be selected from those advertised and be within a reasonable daily commuting distance from the employee’s home address.

Existing GIAA employees appointed into this new role will be allowed to remain at their current workplace location.
About the job
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Job summary

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is driven by its unparalleled access across government to build ‘better insights, better outcomes’ for our clients.

This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government.

The Agency’s unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully, and continue developing professionally.

You may be allocated to client specific teams or our central resourcing team. All Senior Audit Managers have a strategic leadership and delivery role within the Agency and will be responsible for delivering a high\-quality, impactful audit programme.

You will lead and manage a portfolio of audit delivery, including delivering individual audit engagements from planning through to reporting, providing people management, engagement supervision and oversight to teams delivering individual engagement in a matrix model and fulfilling the role of Head of Internal Audit (HIA – the equivalent of the Chief Audit Executive in the Global Internal Audit Standards in the UK Public Sector for Arms Lengths bodies (subject to appropriate opportunities being available).

This role requires a deep understanding of your clients’ operations, key risks and priorities whilst building strong, productive relationships at all levels. You will be an experienced, confident and strategic leader providing portfolio direction and alignment, adept at fostering a culture of continuous improvement, upholding quality assurance, championing innovation and driving professional development and learning for our people. You will identify key risks and engage with stakeholders with credibility and impact, working closely with colleagues including Group Chief Internal Auditors (GCIAs) to shape and drive the implementation of an audit strategy and plan.

This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider Civil Service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government. GIAA’s unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully

Job description

• Take a strategic leadership and delivery role leading and managing a portfolio of audit delivery from planning through to reporting. Acting as the engagement supervisor for all audits within your agreed allocation. You will drive the continuous professional development of our people including effective allocation of audit resource based on skills, capacity, and priorities to optimise overall Agency delivery


• Shape and drive the implementation of an audit strategy and plan, identifying key risks, you will engage stakeholders with credibility and impact and work closely with colleagues including Group Chief Internal Auditors (GCIAs).


• Have a key role in upholding quality assurance and strengthening the function, including championing the development of a risk\-orientated culture. You will ensure timeliness of each review in line with budget and compliance with GIAA audit methodology and systems.


• Provide portfolio direction and alignment you will foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and learning, ensuring audit services remain responsive to risk priorities.


• Fulfil the role of Head of Internal Audit (HIA – the equivalent of the Chief Audit Executive in the Global Internal Audit Standards in the UK Public Sector) for Arm’s Length Bodies (subject to appropriate opportunities being available).


• Provide leadership and oversight as a People Manager and/or Engagement Manager in a matrix model for a team of auditors across multiple regions. (Specific training will be given if you are allocated a People Manager role due to Line Management responsibilities).


• Support the GCIA in reporting to audit committees including the development of audit strategies and plans, progress reporting and delivering opinions on the effectiveness of governance, risk management and internal control.


• Lead the strategic management of client relationships, including regular engagement with senior client management and audit committees, factoring in, where appropriate, attendance at ARACs and preparation of ARAC papers.


• A smaller proportion of your time will focus on delivering audits in the highest risk or most complex areas.

Person specification

• Significant experience in effective decision making, successfully planning, managing, and delivering a portfolio of risk\-based internal audits to time, quality and budget including the ability to assess skills and resource gaps in audit service delivery.


• Leading and supporting change at a team and organisational level, adopting a continuous improvement approach which contributes to the wider corporate responsibilities of the organisations.


• Strong strategic thinking skills and an ability to interpret complex, conflicting information and make sound judgements. The ability to build and maintain strong relationships across an organisation at all levels, influencing senior stakeholders to adopt good practice internal control, risk management and governance processes.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to interpret complex audit judgements and deliver insight for senior and specialist audiences.


• Proven track record in successfully leading, managing and developing teams in a matrix management setting either as an engagement supervisor or people manager.

To apply for this role, you will need to submit your employment history, personal details and provide a statement of suitability of no more than 1,000 words, referring to the person specification.

Please note only your statement of suitability will be assessed at the sift stage.

Interviews will be held on Teams.

Candidates invited to interview will be required to give a short presentation to the interview panel followed by questions. At interview you will be assessed on experience, strengths and the following technical skills:

• IA client relationships


• Producing a proportionate, well rounded audit plan


• Professional and quality standards

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role

Qualifications

All candidates will need to demonstrate full current membership of a recognised professional accountancy/audit body, either:

Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors UK \& Ireland and must hold chartered auditor/CMIIA designation or the MIIA designation where you are qualified under the previous exam route and did not apply to make this chartered. If you have passed all the CMIIA/MIIA exams but do not hold the designation, you are not eligible to apply.

Other Institutes of Internal Auditors that are part of IIA Global, If you studied with the Institute of Internal Auditors in another country, you must hold the equivalent of the MIIA designation. You should verify this with the IIA UK \& Ireland prior to submitting your application, by emailing membership@iia.org.uk

No other level of internal audit qualifications meet the requirements of this post.

Or

Accountancy, fully qualified, current member of one of five CCAB bodies (ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS, Chartered Accountants Ireland or CIMA)

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• IA client relationships


• Producing a proportionate, well rounded audit plan


• Professional and quality standards

Benefits
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Alongside your salary of £75,695, Government Internal Audit Agency contributes £21,928 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .
Benefits

• Competitive salaries and in\-year rewards


• Flexible working


• A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28\.97%


• Discount on big brands


• Volunteering days


• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Schemes


• Free eyesight tests


• Family\-friendly HR policies


• 25 days’ annual leave increasing by one day per year of service to 30 days after 5 years’ service


• Geographically based Agency

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