Job Description
Reporting to the Head of Service you will share management responsibilities with another Audit Manager for supervising team members to effectively deliver audit work in compliance with professional standards, while supporting and encouraging their ongoing professional and personal development. You will also supervise contractors to deliver audits on behalf of the team and contribute to the associated contract letting and contract management responsibilities.
The Audit Manager is a key player in understanding the risk and challenges faced by our clients, developing audit plans accordingly and allocating resources to team members or contractors appropriately. You will help drive the team to continue in their pursuit to provide a high quality, independent, objective internal audit service to our clients, that adds value as well as helps ensure their business is managed both efficiently and cost effectively.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
You must be a qualified auditor or accountant, ideally with experience of local government internal audit, however if you have external audit experience and can demonstrate transferrable skills then we welcome your application.
You will need an understanding of the operations of local government and the statutory framework within which it operates, and an understanding of governance, risk and internal control and how that facilitates organisations to operate in the way they are expected. An ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels in the organisation, both to obtain the information required to deliver the work of the team and to provide feedback on the findings of that work, in a way that influences others to respond effectively.
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