Job Description

As Internal Auditor you will be consulting with teams across the business on how we can improve our systems and processes, share best practice to ensure we’re as good as we possibly can be and actively reduce risk or inefficiencies where we find them. This is a unique opportunity to work across the entirety of the business, develop relationships and have a strong influence in developing continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities –

• Plan, scope and undertake audits effectively and efficiently under the direction of the Senior Audit Manager, ensuring work is produced to the required standard and deadline by identifying key risks to business objectives, assessing and testing controls in place and identifying areas for improvement.
• Responsible for the production of quality audit reports in a clear and robust way to describe issues to the required standard for reporting to senior management, communicating audit results and agreeing actions to address areas of improvement.
• Actively support management and agreed audit action plans to support process and control improvements, helping to share and promote best practice across the group.
• Maintaining positive relationships within the business, being “hands on” in helping to overcome problems, assessing threats, driving improvements and raising general awareness of risk management.
• Advising management on the prevention of fraud - identifying fraud risks in areas under audit review and assessing and reporting on the effectiveness of mitigating controls, suggesting action to strengthen the control framework.
• Informing and advising management of issues that have risk or control implications through ad hoc advice and assisting in projects.
• Contributing to the development of internal audit, risk and wider group policies and procedures.
• Support the Head of Internal Audit and Risk in the development of management papers on governance, risk and control matters for presentation to executive leadership, the Risk Oversight Committee and the Audit Committee.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To be considered for this role you will have previous experience as an internal auditor and ideally have a relevant qualification within accountancy or audit - however this is not compulsory. Experience in a large complex business would be very beneficial.