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:

Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors UK & Ireland must hold the chartered auditor/CMIIA designation or the MIIA designation where you are qualified under the previous exam route and did not apply to make this chartered. If you have passed all of the CMIIA/MIIA exams but do not hold the designation, you are not eligible to apply.

Other Institutes of Internal Auditors that are part of IIA Global. If you studied with the Institute of Internal Auditors in another country, you must hold the equivalent of the MIIA designation. You should verify this with the IIA UK & Ireland prior to submitting your application, by emailing membership@iia.org.uk. No other level of internal audit qualifications will meet the requirements of this post.

Accountancy, fully qualified, current member of one of five CCAB bodies (ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS, Chartered Accountants Ireland or CIMA).

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

• Competitive salaries and in-year rewards
• Flexible working
• Civil Service Pension
• Discount on big brands
• Volunteering days
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free eyesight tests
• Family-friendly HR policies
• 25 days’ annual leave increasing by one day per year of service to 30 days after 5 years’ service.
• Geographically based Agency

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors UK & Ireland must hold the chartered auditor/CMIIA designation or the MIIA designation where you are qualified under the previous exam route and did not apply to make this chartered. If you have passed all of the CMIIA/MIIA exams but do not hold the designation, you are not eligible to apply.