Internal Auditor

What you’ll be responsible for:

• As an Internal Auditor within the Internal Audit Department, you will understand the risk, control, and governance arrangements of DCWW and how they relate to the work of the Internal Audit Team.
• You will undertake independent assessments of processes, risks, and controls to evaluate the effectiveness of the internal control environment across business and management systems within DCWW and advise management on effective internal controls, recommending improvements to promote the efficient and effective use of resources.
• You will contribute to all aspects of the successful delivery of the Internal Audit work plan, including evaluation of the effectiveness of strategies, policies, and procedures adopted by the business and identification of any improvements that could be introduced.
• Complete internal audits covering diverse areas, including finance, regulation, operational risk, customer, capital projects; probity and strategy.
• Ensure audits are completed on time and in a proactive and efficient manner throughout the audit cycle with requisite quality in accordance with professional standards, individually or as part of a team.
• Assess the adequacy of internal control systems to evaluate the adequacy of controls in place to minimise and mitigate those risks.
• Agree control deficiencies and findings with the Internal Audit Manager and auditees, proposing insightful and practical control improvements, and agreeing appropriate action and change plans.
• Produce high quality and objective internal audit reports.
• Deputise for the Internal Audit Manager when required, and support with preparation of audit papers for reporting to the Executives and the Audit and Risk Committee.
• Build and maintain strong business partnering relationships across the business.
• Assist in timely monitoring and assessment of agreed management actions to close down agreed audit recommendations regarding control deficiencies.

Who you’ll work with:

• DCWW Executives and Heads of Service.
• All DCWW colleagues across the business.
• Level 1 and 2 assurance providers whether internal or external.
• External co-source who support Internal Audit on various audit services.
• External Bodies such as the external auditors as required.
• Engage with regulatory bodies and organisations such as Jacobs as requested.

About you:

• Ideally degree educated with a relevant subject.
• Recognised professional qualification in accountancy or internal audit (fully qualified). Other professional qualifications desirable.
• Experienced in an audit function or in teams focused on risk and control assessments and testing.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including teamworking and verbal and written communication.
• Analytically skilled and systems/data savvy, with the ability to quickly ascertain underlying trends and present information in an easily digestible format tailored to wide stakeholder groups.
• Comfortable using AI to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of your work (e.g. report writing, data analysis etc.), whilst ensuring outputs are appropriately checked.
• Resourceful, with mature judgement and objectivity. Uses knowledge and intuition to identify risks and exposures in making assessments, whilst understanding the potential impact on the business.

Good to know:

This is a hybrid working role; the successful candidate will be required in the office 2 days a week or as required.

Benefits:

• Market competitive salary.
• 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays).
• Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year.
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions.
• Free Mortgage Brokering Services.
• Enhanced family friendly policies.
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes.
• Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops.
• Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites.
• Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service.
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family.

Whilst also working for a not-for-profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers every day and about looking after our beautiful environment.

Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest. Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post-offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles, there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject to all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.

Who we are:

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keeps 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and takes away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas. To deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues, and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets, and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity, and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud, and able to bring their whole selves to work. To ensure improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary, and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment, and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.