About Government Internal Audit Agency
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.
About the Team
This role is based in the Digital, Data & Technology (DDaT) team, providing independent and impartial assurance to the Government. We are looking to recruit from a variety of backgrounds which will improve GIAA’s experience and skills base.
You will work in a flexible team to deliver DDaT assignments. Work can be highly complex and high profile, with considerable stakeholder liaison.
If you have experience and skills in helping customers to understand and manage their IT risks, along with ensuring exemplary standards of governance, control and assurance issues we would love to hear from you. This is your opportunity to join a highly respected, forward-thinking organisation that builds and maintains strategic relationships at the most senior levels across the majority of government departments. The variety and contribution of these roles is unparalleled across government.
DDaT Senior Auditors in GIAA are responsible for the delivery of audit and assurance activity across a varied and interesting range of customers and topics, either working individually or with a small team of auditors. You will be allocated a portfolio of work around a core cluster of customers, while also having the opportunity to broaden your experience by working on new topics or with new customers. With access to high profile work, you will work alongside key decision makers, audit specialists and private sector contractors within the Agency, challenging and developing your skills as well as ensuring we meet our customers’ expectations.
DDaT Senior Auditors are the key day to day contacts for our clients and their ability to build good relationships with a variety of stakeholders whilst delivering efficient and robust audit work is key to the success of the Agency’s relationship with our clients. We value all our employees and will offer you support in maintaining and building your professional career through technical training, coaching and development opportunities. In addition, you are entitled to a formidable range of benefits from a generous pension provision, embracing of flexible work patterns, diversity and security.
The role on offer is an IT audit role but candidates who hold a relevant IT qualification will be considered if they have recent experience in audit.
About the role
DDaT Senior Auditor responsibilities:
* Be an effective team member, supporting wider GIAA delivery by working constructively and flexibly with colleagues to deliver appropriate objectives;
* Manage your own time and resource effectively; proactively identify, foresee and take ownership of issues affecting 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 the customers and carry out activities to ensure that agreed management actions are completed;
* Be accountable for delivery of a portfolio of IT audits, working on more than one assignment at once, possibly on different clients, to budget and quality expectations, complying with GIAA methodology, using our IT audit software system;
* To scope IT 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
Candidatesmust meet at least one of the followingcriteria:
Have extensive and relevant IT audit experience.
Or
Hold at least one of the following (or equivalent) recognised IT qualifications.
* Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
* Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
* Certified Information Security Manager
* Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
* Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT
* Member of the Chartered Institute for Information Technology
Or
Degree/masters qualification in IT
Or
Be able to demonstrate full current membership of a recognized professional accountancy/audit body below:
Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors UK & Ireland
You must hold the chartered auditor/CMIIA designation or the MIIA designation where you qualified under the previous exam route and did not apply to make this chartered. If you have passed all of the CMIIA/MIIA exams but do not hold the designation, you are not eligible to apply.
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