Corporate Risk, Audit and Assurance Manager

Overview

Our client is looking for Corporate Risk and Assurance lead to join their team.

Daily rate: £380pd
IR35: outside IR35
Duration: March 26
Travel: Hybrid. Travel to London or Oxford once a month
Start: ASAP

Responsibilities and duties

• Ensuring the appropriate plans, standards and practices for managing corporate risk and conducting corporate assurance and internal audit activities.

Corporate Risk Management

• Coordinate a programme of regular assurance reviews with key Corporate and Portfolio stakeholders in accordance with the Integrated Assurance Map.
• Support maintenance of and champion the Policy, Framework and Appetite Statement in accordance with best practice and Departmental policy.
• Provide advice to risk practitioners in using standards and processes through Risk Champion Working Groups.
• Support risk management maturity using the Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) risk maturity model.
• Support the maintenance of the risk system/log, with the support of a technical development team.
• Develop and coordinate a programme of regular risk and issue reviews with key stakeholders.
• Analyse trends and performance to provide insightful recommendations to senior leaders to improve risk management.

Corporate Assurance & Compliance

• Support the maintenance of, and champion the Agency\\\’s Assurance Strategy and Assurance Framework.
• Maintain the Integrated Assurance Map.
• Provide advice to those involved in assurance on using standards.
• Prepare reports highlighting insight from assurance interventions for senior leaders, including the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee.
• Contribute to the Governance Statement in the Agency\\\’s Annual Report and Accounts, summarising the processes, plans and findings of assurance activities.
• Collate, assess and challenge information from relevant leads within the Agency including oversight of the DAASIC process (Director\\\’s Annual Assurance Statements of Internal Control) and assurance of achievement of Functional Standards.
• Coordinate compliance activities across each delivery support function, which are to set internal controls and monitor their effectiveness.
• Engage upwards and outwards with stakeholders in DSIT and across government to ensure alignment to assurance and compliance requirements.

Internal Audit

• Oversee internal and external audit exercises.
• Create a central repository for all audit actions, coordinating their enactment with relevant teams.

Additional notes

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