Location: Birmingham, Bootle, Leeds and Newcastle
Job description
Our Senior Auditors are the essential day-to-day contacts for our clients. With access to high profile work, you will work alongside key decision makers, audit specialists and private sector contractors in the Agency, challenging and developing your skills and ensuring we meet our clients’ expectations. We provide internal audit services and support for the UK government. Our clients include all ministerial departments and many non-ministerial departments, agencies and public bodies.
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.
Senior Auditor responsibilities:
* 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 provide solutions and options ahead of deadlines.
* Provide and deliver clear and accurate reports that meet the requirements of our clients 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.
Candidate qualifications:
For these senior auditor roles, we are inviting candidates who have demonstrable experience within the discipline of the professional audit/accountancy body outlined below, and have achieved at least one of the following:
* Internal Audit part qualified - Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (UK & Ireland), or overseas equivalent (the latter will require you to verify equivalent status with the CIIA UK & Ireland before applying) - have passed at least CIA 1, CIA 2 and CIA 3 (or PIIA under the pre-chartered route).
* Accountancy part qualified through CCAB bodies or UK and overseas equivalent.
* ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS, Chartered Accountants Ireland, CIMA, – at least 2 thirds of exam passes.
* ICAEW – passes in both the Certificate and Professional levels.
Please note that a degree in any finance, accountancy, or audit discipline does not meet the qualification requirements, as these do not give membership of a professional body in themselves.
You need to have obtained the required qualification at the time of submitting your application. If you are waiting to sit your exams or have not yet received your results, then you are not eligible to apply this time.
Senior Auditor person specification:
You will be required to write a statement of suitability of up to 750 words setting out how your skills and experience meet the following criteria:
1. Able to demonstrate strong understanding of governance, risk management, control and assurance issues.
2. A strong, analytical thinker and problem solver who is able to plan out what needs to be done within tight deadlines and under minimal supervision.
3. An effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills, able to work collaboratively with a wide range of business and corporate stakeholders at all levels across an organisation.
4. Able to influence using evidence and negotiation rather than the exercise of authority, demonstrating resilience and tact in the face of challenging circumstances.
5. Experience of collecting and providing accurate, unbiased, relevant and sufficient information to support conclusions.
Further guidance on how to complete your statement can be found within the application form on Civil Service Jobs
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
* Internal Audit
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