Internal Auditor in Cardiff

Excellent opportunity for an Internal Auditor to join our Group Internal Audit team. In this role you will support the Group Head of Audit and Deputy Head of Audit and play a key role in providing assurance across our UK and international audit programmes, helping ensure we remain well controlled and effectively managing risk.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing ongoing assurance to the Audit Committee on the effectiveness of audit programmes, ensuring a proactive, responsive, and reactive approach to risk and control.
• Producing clear, concise audit reports for Senior Management, highlighting any significant non‑compliance or control weaknesses and supporting improvements across the business.
• Managing audit administration activity, including planning, fieldwork, reporting, and follow‑up, while working closely with stakeholders to ensure timely completion of recommendations.
• Participating in peer reviews, offering constructive challenge and feedback on audit documentation and reporting.
• Supporting a culture where customers are treated fairly in all areas of the business.
• Maintaining your professional development, ensuring learning is up‑to‑date and appropriately recorded.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Fully or nearly qualified (CIA, ACA, ACCA, CISA or equivalent) proven experience within an IA function.
• End‑to‑end audit experience (planning, fieldwork, reporting, follow‑up).
• Strong track record identifying control weaknesses and non‑compliance, with practical recommendations.
• Ability to assess internal controls and risk management effectiveness.
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders.
• Confident in constructively challenging senior stakeholders where needed.
• Clear, concise, and insightful report writing for senior management.
• High attention to detail and strong documentation standards.
• Ability to drive action plans and timely remediation.
• Strong analytical skills: interpreting data, identifying trends and root causes, and proposing solutions.
• Experience managing multiple audits simultaneously and meeting deadlines.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Exposure to key insurance functions (claims, underwriting, pricing, product governance).
• Familiarity with risk‑based internal audit frameworks and audit software.
• Experience working across multiple jurisdictions or regulatory environments.
• Ability to use data analytics tools to enhance audit insights.
• Ability to challenge audit outputs and contribute to continuous improvement.
• Awareness of operational resilience, outsourcing risk, cyber risk, and regulatory change.
• Involvement in transformation audits or advisory work.

Benefits:

• We offer up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.
• Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays).
• You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

Disability Confident Leader: As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long‑term health condition that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we’ll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process.