Job Description

Responsibilities
 

• Be an effective team member, supporting wider GIAA delivery by working constructively and flexibly with colleagues to deliver appropriate objectives;
• Manage your own time and resource effectively; proactively identify, foresee and take ownership of issues affecting delivery of your and the wider teams’ objectives and provides solutions and options ahead of deadlines;
• Provide and deliver clear and accurate reports that meet the requirements of the customers and carry out activities to ensure that agreed management actions are completed;
• Be accountable for delivery of a portfolio of audits, working on more than one assignment at once, possible on different clients, to budget and quality expectations, complying with GIAA methodology, using our IT audit software system;
• To scope audit assignments, including drafting terms of reference, testing strategies, fieldwork plans, reporting timetables and focus work on identified risks; single audit methodology and audit management software;

Key Skills
 

• To work with professional skill and be a trusted adviser to clients, responsible for working level relationships with key contacts
• Actively work with others while sharing expertise and experience, coaching juniors and peers, and helping the Agency develop its professional practice;
• Look to continuously improve your own development and performance and that of the wider team, participating in training and broader corporate activities as required;
• Respond positively to team and departmental changes, being an ambassador for the Agency as it develops;
• Be highly organized, actively monitoring audit deliverables to ensure high quality service, delivered to agreed time quality and resource constraints.
• Be a team player who is able to coach and develop others

 

Responsibilities

Person Specification
You will be required to submit a statement of suitability no more than 500 words referring to the following Person Specification:

 

• Be able to demonstrate strong understanding of governance, risk management, control and assurance issues
• Be a strong, analytical thinker who can solve problems and work out what needs to be done and take pride in bringing to conclusion
• Have strong writing skills and be able to communicate key messages clearly and succinctly to senior leaders, utilising a range of communication methods
• Be an effective communicator, possessing excellent interpersonal skills which enable you to relate to people at all levels in an organisation demonstrated by experience of working collaboratively with a wide range of business and corporate stakeholders
• Have the ability to influence using evidence and negotiation rather than the exercise of authority
• Demonstrate resilience and tact in the face of challenging circumstances, dealing with conflict in a prompt, calm and constructive manner
• Be highly organised, with the ability to work on and manage multiple projects within tight deadlines and minimal supervision
• Be able to develop proposals to improve the quality of service involving a diverse range of staff, stakeholders or delivery partners
• Experience of collecting and providing accurate, unbiased, relevant and sufficient information to support conclusions

Qualifications

Candidates will need to demonstrate full current membership of a recognised professional accountancy / audit body below:
 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• To work with professional skill and be a trusted adviser to clients, responsible for working level relationships with key contacts • Actively work with others while sharing expertise and experience, coaching juniors and peers, and helping the Agency develop its professional practice; • Look to continuously improve your own development and performance and that of the wider team, participating in training and broader corporate activities as required; • Respond positively to team and departmental changes, being an ambassador for the Agency as it develops; • Be highly organized, actively monitoring audit deliverables to ensure high quality service, delivered to agreed time quality and resource constraints. • Be a team player who is able to coach and develop others