Senior Audit Lead in Skipton

This role is for a permanent position working full time 35 hours per week, with three days a week in our Skipton office.

Closing Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026

Join our Group Internal Audit (GIA) team and play a key role in helping the Skipton Group achieve its strategic ambitions. As a senior member of the GIA leadership team, you'll provide independent insight and assurance across a diverse range of Group businesses, acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders while maintaining audit independence and objectivity. You'll lead impactful audit reviews, influence risk and control improvements, and help shape the future of Internal Audit, all while working across a varied portfolio that includes financial services, property, international banking and technology businesses. This role will involve some travel as you will be working across multiple businesses but is not expected to be more than 30% of your role.

What You’ll Do

• Delivering high quality, risk focused audits using Agile principles, ensuring reviews are completed efficiently, on time, and in line with GIA methodologies and reporting standards.
• Reviewing and overseeing audit deliverables, providing coaching, guidance and constructive feedback to colleagues while ensuring all work meets Internal Audit Standards, regulatory requirements and internal quality expectations.
• Leading the successful delivery of multiple audit assignments, coordinating resources, providing direction to the audit team, and empowering colleagues to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Presenting findings, updates and insights to senior management, committees and governance forums as required.
• Contributing to the development of the annual audit plan through ongoing risk assessment, stakeholder engagement, horizon scanning and identification of emerging risks.
• Being responsible for the performance and coaching of GIA team members working on the audits for which you are accountable.

What You’ll Need

• Strong knowledge of key conduct and operational risks, including Consumer Duty, Operational Resilience, Financial Crime, and Third-Party Risk Management.
• Good understanding of key regulations including FCA requirements (SYSC, DISP, MCOBS, PRIN and Consumer Duty) and GDPR.
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships at all levels.
• Good understanding of the Global Internal Audit Standards and risk-based auditing principles.
• Experience leading, coaching and developing colleagues, with the ability to independently manage multiple complex assignments with minimal supervision.
• Proven experience building credibility with senior stakeholders and providing effective challenge where required.

What’s In It For You

Your work matters. And the way we reward you matters, too. At Skipton, we offer pay and benefits that really do make life better, together with a genuine thank you for making a difference.

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a max of 30 days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague Mortgages and access to Skipton products and services at discounted rates
• Flexible working to help balance your commitments
• Private medical insurance, health and wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle-to-work scheme, discounted gym memberships
• Lifestyle perks such as a Home and Tech voucher, which can be used at John Lewis, Currys, and IKEA

About Skipton

Our story began in 1853 in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Today, you’ll find us across England and Scotland, from Aberdeen to Plymouth. We help over a million members put down roots, save for what matters, and feel good about their money. As a mutual, they own us, so everything we do is for them. You'll feel that same fairness and purpose in how all 2,500 of our colleagues work together, too. It all means that life at Skipton is more exciting than you imagine.

What it's like to work here

We talk and we listen to each other. And we make decisions as a team. That way, you get all the support you need to do work that works for everyone. For most of our roles there's the option of blended working, which means we mix working from home and meeting in person with three days a week in our Skipton head office and two days working from home. We also value what everyone brings to Skipton. And we create a fair place where you can be yourself. Our colleague networks play a big role in this. They connect people with similar life experiences and make our workplace warm, friendly, inclusive and welcoming.

It’s not just our members who are important to us. You are, too.

Lots of organisations talk about wellbeing, but they don’t always back it up. As a mutual, we put people first. And that includes the people who work here. So, when we say we care about your wellbeing, we mean it. Wellbeing isn't just one thing. It’s about feeling good, having energy, and being able to be yourself and perform at your best. That’s why we offer help for your mental and physical health across five key areas. What’s more, it’s help that you can actually use too - not just read about.

Apply now

Sounds like you? Then apply now. You don't need to tick every box - we look for people who care about our members and who want to grow at the same time. The rest can follow.

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us as we continue to support our members and represent the communities we serve. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, age, family or parental status, beliefs, nationalities and religions - supporting an inclusive environment for all our colleagues to bring their true selves to Skipton.

If you have a disability, or if you have a condition that you believe may affect your performance during our selection process, we’ll be happy to discuss making reasonable adjustments to our processes for you. Please contact our Talent Acquisition team at talentacquisition@skipton.co.uk.