Senior Auditor, SEO

The Role

As a Senior Auditor, you will be a key player in delivering high-quality audit services aligned with the Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS) in the UK Public Sector or other relevant professional standards.

You will act as a crucial point of contact for clients, delivering a portfolio of audits and working closely with stakeholders to deliver efficient and robust audit work that strengthens the Agency's client relationships and reputation.

This role requires a confident, experienced auditor who will actively contribute to audit delivery in line with quality, time and budget requirements.

You may be allocated to client-specific teams, one of our specialism teams or our central resourcing team.

This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider Civil Service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government.

The Agency’s unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully and continue developing professionally.

Role Responsibilities

• Supporting the delivery of a portfolio of audits, working on more than one assignment at once, often for a variety of clients.
• Leading the delivery of audit assignments and ensuring delivery within budget and quality expectations, complying with GIAA methodology and using our audit management system to deliver audits in line with our quality standards.
• Identifying and assessing key risks and explaining these to client management teams. Preparing terms of reference, setting out testing plans and undertaking detailed testing. Evaluating client frameworks for governance, risk and control, supporting good practice within own and client organisations, and recommending improvements that support organisational objectives and capabilities.
• Obtaining, selecting and analysing data to support results, conclusions and recommendations made. Providing and delivering clear and accurate reports that meet the requirements of our clients, and carrying out activities to ensure that agreed management actions are completed.
• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement, using Agency innovation and learning. Being an effective team member, supporting wider GIAA delivery by working constructively and flexibly with colleagues to deliver appropriate outcomes.
• Managing your own time and resources effectively, taking ownership of issues that could impact the delivery of your and the wider team's objectives and providing solutions and options ahead of deadlines.

Candidate Qualifications

For these Senior Auditor roles, we are inviting candidates who have demonstrable experience within the discipline of the professional audit/accountancy body outlined below, and have achieved at least one of the following:

Internal Audit – Part Qualified

Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (UK & Ireland), or overseas equivalent (the latter will require you to verify equivalent status with the CIIA UK & Ireland before applying):

- Have passed at least CIA 1, CIA 2 and CIA 3 (or PIIA under the pre-chartered route).

Accountancy – Part Qualified

Accountancy part qualified through CCAB bodies or UK and overseas equivalent:

• ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS, Chartered Accountants Ireland, CIMA: At least two-thirds of exam passes.
• ICAEW: Passes in both the Certificate and Professional levels.

Important: A degree in any finance, accountancy or audit discipline does not meet the qualification requirements, as these do not give membership of a professional body in themselves.

You need to have obtained the required qualification at the time of submitting your application. If you are waiting to sit your exams or have not yet received your results, then you are not eligible to apply this time.

Person Specification

You will be required to write a statement of suitability of up to 750 words, setting out how your skills and experience meet the following criteria:

1. Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving: A strong, analytical thinker and problem solver who can plan requirements within tight deadlines, under minimal supervision and manage competing challenging workloads.
2. Governance, Risk and Control: Evaluating client frameworks for governance, risk and control, supporting good practice within own and client organisations, and recommending improvements that support organisational objectives and capabilities.
3. Risk-Based Internal Audit Experience:Significant experience of risk-based internal audit, including:

• Experience of collecting and providing accurate, unbiased, relevant and sufficient information to support conclusions.
• Experience in leading audit engagements.
• Confidence in evaluating complex systems and processes, including working and communicating effectively with all levels of the organisation and stakeholders.
• Ability to use IA software and standard IT products.

Further guidance on how to complete your statement can be found within the application form on the Civil Service Jobs website.

Job Location

Available locations: Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Croydon, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Reading or Swansea.

GIAA expects employees to maintain a regular presence at their contractual designated work location and to travel to other GIAA locations or client sites as required for critical meetings and field assignments.

Consequently, the contractual location must be selected from those advertised and be within a reasonable daily commuting distance from the employee’s home address.

Existing GIAA employees appointed into this new role will be allowed to remain at their current workplace location.