Principles Responsibilities
1. Produces, agrees, and oversees delivery of risk-based plans with allocated clients that are designed to produce sufficient assurances to fulfil the requirements of the Head of Internal Audit Opinion on the effectiveness of internal control.
2. Manages the planning, conduct, output, and opinions for all audit work for allocated clients within agreed deadlines, budgets, and quality standards.
3. Operates as budget holder for allocated plans, requiring the planning and organizing of complex activities and programmes to ensure income is recovered, costs contained, and outputs delivered. Often these budgeted plans need to be adjusted on an ongoing basis for reporting to Audit Committees as priorities shift.
4. Manages and develops key relationships with allocated clients, particularly at Director of Finance and Audit Committee level.
5. Provides principal advice to allocated clients on Annual Governance Statement preparation and related governance and risk management matters.
6. Ensures allocated plans are incorporated into the overall planning of resources and commitments for the function.
7. Plans and organizes the work schedule for allocated clients to ensure weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual timetables are delivered, particularly regarding Audit Committee deadlines.
8. Personally conducts a range of highly complex audits for reporting to senior management and the Audit Committee.
9. Conducts complex research on behalf of the team and the Agency to develop and pilot approaches to emerging auditable areas.
10. Makes recommendations as appropriate, often involving significant proposed changes to working practices and procedures following policy implementation across multiple areas and NHS organisations.
11. Contributes to service redesign and provides benchmarking information.
12. Undertakes complex systems reviews that conclude upon financial control, physical security of cash, and the safeguarding of assets.
13. Responds to, and often anticipates, queries from clients, which may be of a highly sensitive and highly confidential nature, and investigates and reports as necessary to the satisfaction of the client.
14. Provides advice, information, and guidance for direct use by patients, relatives, or carers.
15. Secures added value additional consultancy work which enhances the profile and capability of the Agency.
16. Participates in preparation and delivery of presentations for tendered internal audit contracts.
17. Manages the work of Delivery Managers, Principal Auditors, and Auditors within the function.
18. On occasions, deputises for the Regional Assurance Directors.
19. Manages the relationship with the external auditors for allocated clients to ensure integration of audit resource and positive review of internal audit quality.
20. Builds effective client relationships across the functions' clients.
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