Job Description

Our role as an auditor is to act independently to support trust and integrity in the business. We provide a wide range of public sector bodies across local government, NHS, police, fire and national parks. We audit over 300 public sector bodies including some of the largest councils and NHS bodies in the country. We pride ourselves on the high-level standards and quality we expect from our people.

In our role as external auditor, as well as the audit of financial statements, we are required to assess the economy, effectiveness and efficiency of public bodies in their use of public resources (sometimes knowns as the Value for Money (VfM) conclusion). We are looking for people with appropriate skills to support our work on assessing the financial sustainability, governance and service performance of local government, police, fire and NHS bodies.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Professional qualification ACA, ICAS, CA, ACCA, CIPFA or similar.
• Experience of working with local government, police, fire or NHS bodies in external or internal audit capacity.
• We envisage some knowledge of local authority and NHS finance and a reasonably good understanding of the governance and service performance of these sectors.
• Knowledge of Value for Money audit is beneficial.
• We envisage that this role would suit managers, senior managers or directors.