Job Description

Working as part of a flexible and multi-disciplinary assurance function, you will be leading on and undertaking a variety of assurance and audit activities across all areas of the programme. You will also act as subject matter lead for individual assurance activities.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Act as the lead auditor with responsibility for the management of individual audits.
• Develop individual audit/assurance plans and detailed scope to cover identified risk areas for activities to be assured
• Work with subject matter experts and assurance providers to develop targeted audit/assurance scope that focuses on key risks and provides the appropriate level of outcome
• Report on audit/assurance findings to the Senior Corporate Assurance Manager.
• Conduct audits/assurance activity in line with the agreed audit/assurance programme.
• Deliver hands-on support to corporate functions in working through the Assurance lifecycle, working with external Assurance providers, such as the Independent Assurance Panel, to ensure that issues are captured, tracked and closed out
• Provide input and ideas to the Continual Improvement of Policies and Procedures
• Lead and facilitate lessons learned activities to ensure feedback is balanced and fair, and that action plans are created and acted on.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Client management experience, ideally working across major projects. Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines. Experience in the use and application of assurance regimes in major projects. Knowledge and experience in the validation of major schemes, risk management and reporting. Previous experience in qualitative schedule risk assessment. Experience of developing or working within procurement governance & assurance structures with supporting policy and processes.  Appropriate qualification in assurance management and/or audit.