Senior Auditor - SEO

• Salary: £44,900 - £49,480 (£48,400 - £55,974 London)
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Working Pattern: This post is available on a full time, part time or job share basis, and flexible working hours can be accommodated.
• Location: We will consider applications from people able to access the following offices: Birmingham, Blackpool, Bootle, Leeds and Newcastle
• We also have roles available in the following locations for colleagues appointed to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) team only: Boscombe Down, Bristol (Abbey Wood), Corsham, Lichfield, London and Portsmouth.

This is an exciting time to join the Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA). The introduction of our Audit Response Team (ART), alongside our embedded customer facing teams means we can elevate our impact across UK central government by ensuring we are responsive and agile whilst also continuing to meet our customers’ needs. We are recruiting a number of roles for both our customer facing and audit response teams.

About the Team

Audit response team

For roles in our Audit Response Team (ART), you will work to deliver a portfolio of audits across a number of our customers, collaborating closely with our customer teams. As a member of our ART team, you will also have access to dedicated, bespoke development programmes to support you to get up to speed, and you’ll work closely with all our high-performing and highly supportive teams where we you will have the opportunity to expand and enrich your skills.

Customer facing team

For our customer facing roles you will work closely with a single customer developing a detailed and deep understanding of your customer’s activity, learning about their business. Identifying key stakeholders and building effective and productive relationships are also vital aspects for these roles. Successful candidates may be offered the opportunity to work in our specialist audit teams (Digital, Data & Technology, Programme & Project Management, Commercial, Grants and Data Analytics) if, during the recruitment process, they're identified as having the relevant skills and experience.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

• Be an effective team member, supporting wider GIAA delivery by working constructively and flexibly with colleagues to deliver appropriate outcomes. 
• Manage your own time and resource effectively and efficiently; proactively identify, expect, and take ownership of issues that could impact on the delivery of your and the wider teams’ objectives and provides solutions and options ahead of deadlines.
• Provide and deliver clear and accurate reports that meet the requirements of our customers and carry out activities to ensure that agreed management actions are completed.
• Be accountable for delivery of a portfolio of audits, working on more than one assignment at once, possibly for different clients, delivering to budget and quality expectations, complying with GIAA methodology, using our IT audit software system.
• Scope audit assignments, including drafting terms of reference, testing strategies, fieldwork plans, reporting timetables and focus work on identified risks; single audit methodology and audit management software.

Whichever pathway you choose, these roles are an ideal opportunity for career development, with opportunities for progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, enabling you to develop a broad career base gaining experience of building and maintaining strategic relationships at the most senior levels. The potential variety and contribution made through these roles across government departments is unparalleled. We are using a single recruitment process for both our customer facing and audit response team roles. You will be asked your preference at Interview

About You

You will be able to demonstrate strong understanding of governance, risk management, control and assurance issues as well as being an analytical thinker who is able to plan out what needs to be done within tight deadlines. You will need to be an effective communicator with experience of collecting and providing accurate unbiased relevant information to support conclusions.

About Us

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, and we welcome applications from candidates who wish to work flexibly, for example, part-time, term time or job share.

Hybrid Working is available to GIAA colleagues. This means a combination of office working and working from home. This includes time spent in our GIAA office locations and can also include any time spent attending our customers' sites.

GIAA colleagues are expected to work in an office location for three days a week on average (60%). Naturally, this expectation will be applied on a pro-rata basis for people who have a part-time or compressed hours working pattern.

Benefits of working for the Government Internal Audit Agency

• Competitive salaries and in year rewards
• Flexible working
• Competitive contributory pension scheme with employer contributions starting from 26.6%.
• Discounts on big brands and supermarkets, online shops and on the high street.
• Paid volunteering days
• Season ticket loans/Cycle to work scheme
• Free eyesight test
• Family friendly HR policies
• 25 days annual leave, increasing one day each year to 30 days after 5 years’ service

For more information about the GIAA, role, salary, benefits, who to contact and how to apply please follow the Apply link.    

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team.

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 15th September 2024