What's involved with this role: Principal Internal Auditor Job Ref: WYCA 0009 5E6C / 1 Pay Rate: £48,069 per annum Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is Permanent City: LEEDS Take the strategic lead for development and delivery of a range of internal audit work, including management of a team, for a specified area of responsibility (e.g. Investigations/Transport/Adult Education Budget (AEB)) in line with Public Sector Internal Audit Standards. Identify improvements in internal control, governance, risk management and operational effectiveness and efficiency, liaising and dealing with all levels of employees across the organisation to agree the changes necessary to drive that continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities: Lead on the management of internal audit reviews working closely with the business clients and other stakeholders. Determine an approach for audit assignments within the Strategic Internal Audit Plans and ensure these are delivered on time. Lead on the implementation and monitoring of service quality regimes and audit specifications. Use professional knowledge to provide expertise and guidance to stakeholders. Analyse, determine and prioritise key actions to deliver audit assignments within agreed plans, controlling actions by review of progress against targets. Ensure the early identification and appropriate management of risks associated with audit assignments. Provide input, guidance and expertise to support other projects as required, developing and sharing best practice and lessons learned across the Combined Authority and externally as appropriate. Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, representing the Combined Authority, attending and chairing meetings as necessary. Make a key contribution to the development and implementation of relevant strategies, policies and procedures including technical specialist areas. Using knowledge and expertise, produce and present a range of audit reports to internal and external stakeholders including executive level chief and senior managers (and Audit Committees as required), ensuring they are tailored to the appropriate audience. Qualifications: Holds a degree or has equivalent relevant experience in Internal Audit. Relevant professional qualification (CCAB qualified accountant or CMIIA) Knowledge: Extensive knowledge and understanding of the PSIAS, audit techniques, practices, procedures and statutory regulations and their application. Extensive knowledge of relevant legislation and policies associated with controls, risk management and governance processes in local government. Extensive and significant knowledge and understanding of systems of internal control, risk management and governance processes across public sector services. Experience: Practical experience of successfully performing in a similar role. Experience of prioritising, planning and organising workloads to manage expectations and deadlines. Experience of managing people including appraisals, performance management, disciplinary, recruitment and selection. Experience of working in partnership with stakeholders including senior management team, external auditors and external audit suppliers. Experience of making compelling business cases/ reports to a range of audiences. Substantial experience of planning, prioritising, organising and managing a significant personal workload and that of staff under supervision. Significant experience of dealing with executive level and senior managers in challenging environments and circumstances. Significant experience of working with sensitive and confidential information and using CAATS Proven experience of confidently and professionally conveying information both written and oral in a clear, concise and persuasive style. Comprehensive experience of leading, negotiating and influencing stakeholders. Skills & Abilities: Strong communication skills with the proven ability to influence, negotiate and challenge. Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Demonstrable ability to lead by example, manage and motivate a multi-disciplinary audit team Demonstrable ability to identify and confront issues early and take a proactive and innovative approach to driving progress and problem resolution. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please