At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive IT compliance audits and strengthen governance across teams.
- Company: Join Sage, a leader in tech with a focus on security and trust.
- Benefits: Generous bonuses, hybrid work, 25 days leave, and health coverage.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Why this job: Be a trusted partner in enhancing IT controls and making a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience in IT compliance or audit roles; strong analytical and communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 45000 - 55000 £ per year.
Security, trust and strong controls are critical to how Sage operates — and this role helps make sure they stay that way. We’re looking for an IT Compliance Auditor to join our Global IT Controls Compliance team. This is a hands‑on, mid‑level role where you’ll work across our technology landscape, partnering with teams to make sure our IT controls are not only compliant, but practical, effective and fit for a modern, global business. Rather than acting as a “checker”, you’ll be a trusted partner — helping teams understand risk, strengthen controls and continuously improve how we govern our systems, data and change processes.
Please note: This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in our Newcastle office.
Key Responsibilities
- Driving meaningful IT controls assurance
- Oversee IT compliance and operational audits across security, data, operations and change management
- Assess how controls are designed and how they work in practice — not just whether they exist on paper
- Produce clear, robust audit evidence that can be relied upon by both internal and external auditors
- Improving how we do governance
- Refresh and improve audit approaches as technologies, risks and ways of working evolve
- Help strengthen and standardise governance processes through the effective use of GRC tooling
- Identify where controls can be simplified, strengthened or made more effective — and help teams get there
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure and IT operations teams across multiple regions
- Clearly communicate audit findings, risks and recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Support teams in defining realistic remediation plans and seeing them through to completion
- Work closely with internal and external auditors to support annual IT General Controls and SOx testing
- Act as a key point of contact, helping ensure audits run smoothly and findings are well understood
What we’re looking for:
You don’t need to tick every box, but the right person will likely bring:
- Experience in IT compliance, risk or audit roles, with exposure to ITGC, SOx and control frameworks
- A working knowledge of how controls apply to applications, infrastructure, operations and change
- Confidence to challenge, influence and support teams in a constructive way
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to get to the root cause of control issues
- Clear communication skills — especially when translating technical or risk topics for non‑technical audiences
- A collaborative, pragmatic mindset and the ability to manage competing priorities
Nice to have (not essential)
- CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) or equivalent experience
Benefits? We have plenty...
- Generous bonuses and pension scheme: Up to 8% matched pension contribution plus 2% top-up by Sage.
- 25 days of paid annual leave with the option to buy up to another 5 days.
- 8 bank holiday days.
- Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage % income protection.
- Holiday buy + sell.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year.
- Ongoing training and professional development.
- Hybrid working.
- Healthy Mind app membership
- Access to various helpful memberships for finances, health and wellbeing.
