Location
We will consider applications from people able to access our offices at the following locations:
Birmingham, Bootle, Glasgow, Leeds, Newcastle, Swansea and London.
GIAA has an expectation for all colleagues to attend their local workplace regularly and to attend client sites for key meetings and when undertaking fieldwork.
Existing GIAA employees appointed into this new role will be allowed to remain at their current workplace location.
Job summary
We are an executive agency of His Majesty’s Treasury (HM Treasury), established in April 2015 to improve the quality of internal audit provided to central government. Most of the Agency’s people are professionally qualified internal auditors, accountants or investigators. Many are also specialists in areas including counter fraud, project management, digital and commercial audit. We lead both the Government Internal Audit Profession and the Government Internal Audit Function. Our workforce brings with it a unique depth of experience gained in a wide range of government departments, related bodies and other sectors. This enables us to offer a high-quality service based on cross-government insight and a strong understanding of our customers’ business. In GIAA, we aim to be a great place to work and to ensure that we have the capability and capacity to make even more of a significant contribution to achieving A Brilliant Civil Service over the coming years. Our initial focus was on becoming “a single audit practice”. We are now focused on taking GIAA to the next level so we can provide better insights and better outcomes for government.
Job description
The role of Head of Professional Standards is to support the Agency’s Technical Director and Head of Profession both with the day-to-day management of professional risks to the Agency and the management of longer-term strategic reputational risks. We are looking for a fully qualified chartered accountant with experience of external audit settings because we want to bring that experience to bear on our internal audit practice. The role will report directly to the Technical Director & Head of Profession (SCS2). It is expected that the role holder will matrix-manage project teams of Grade 7 staff and below to deliver specific tasks.
Key areas of responsibility
* In collaboration with Heads of Internal Audit (HIAs) across the Agency, develop and maintain client risk profiles that inform decision-making on resource allocation, stakeholder engagement and quality assurance.
* Develop and implement a process for accrediting HIAs, ensuring HIA roles (at all levels) are being fulfilled by appropriately qualified and experienced people; and undertake annual reviews of HIA portfolios. This will include validation of professional qualifications and consideration of independence threats.
* Manage the process for quality assurance of annual HIA opinions and higher risk deliverables, including convening consultation panels to consider complex matters and undertaking a secretariat function.
* Develop and implement a system to identify and monitor emerging practice risks.
* Support the central reviews of annual internal audit plans and annual opinions.
* Develop and implement a system for managing and maintaining strategic relationships across government, to include obtaining feedback from key groups, developing propositions to meet emerging client needs and seeking opportunities to add value.
Person specification
Candidate qualifications
You will need to be a fully qualified chartered accountant with extensive post-qualification experience.
You should be able to demonstrate full current membership of one of the five member bodies of the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB): Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA), Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS), or Chartered Accountants Ireland (ICAI).
Person specification
You will be required to write a statement of suitability of up to 1,000 words setting out how your skills and experience meet the following criteria:
* Technical skills to include experience of reputational risk management within a regulated business.
* Self-starter who can work under direction to design and implement solutions to risk problems.
* Excellent people skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders and enable a culture of consultation.
* Experience of managing the provision of external audit services.
* Experience of managing the provision of internal audit and/or investigations in a professional services setting.
* Experience of providing professional services to government and/or public sector clients.
Qualifications
You will need to be a fully qualified chartered accountant with extensive post-qualification experience.
You should be able to demonstrate full current membership of one of the five member bodies of the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB): Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA), Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS), or Chartered Accountants Ireland (ICAI).
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
* Reputational Risk Management
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