Auditor
Permanent
Job Description
- To identify opportunities and make recommendations that will provide value in the form of operational efficiencies, cost reduction and risk mitigation.
- To support with facilitation of the risk management process, leading functional workshops and maintaining functional risk maps and registers.
- To build effective stakeholder relationships, promoting and demonstrating the value of Internal Audit to support the business in achieving its strategic objectives.
- Lead the delivery of audit reviews and advisory engagements, responsible for planning, execution and reporting, in line with methodology
- Define and present engagement scope, taking a risk-based approach
- Provide a balanced view of findings, and propose pragmatic recommendations, with a commercial mindset and customer lens
- Prepare clear, concise working papers and reporting, linking risk to control testing to results to recommendations
- Present engagement scope, findings and recommendations to stakeholders, answer questions and respond to challenges
- Track internal audit actions to completion, supporting stakeholders as necessary
- Manage relationships with stakeholders to ensure Internal Audit remains a relevant, credible and valued business partner, increasing awareness and educating the business on the role, importance and benefits of the Internal Audit function
- Support the team in facilitating the review and management of risk within the business
- Lead bi-annual functional risk management workshops with stakeholders and update and maintain functional risk maps and registers
- Keep abreast of risks within the industry and advise on new and emerging risks
- Build strong and effective working relationships with the team and key stakeholders
- Work with stakeholders across the business to understand and analyze issues and root cause, challenge where appropriate and provide support and practical solutions to strengthen the control environment
- Meet regularly with key stakeholders to remain up to date with business initiatives and change, and provide ad-hoc support and advise to the business on risk and control
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Proactive and takes ownership
- Demonstrate initiative and decisiveness
- Consistently produce high quality work against deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, including impactful and insightful report writing
- Passion for customer service with ability to provide practical, customer-focused solutions
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Awareness of internal and external best practice
- Ability to plan and organize with high attention to detail
- Professionalism, empathy, influencing, and interpersonal skills
- Clear, concise verbal and written communications, able to present risk and control information to the business in a way which is meaningful, compelling and relevant
- Interest and involvement in supporting the business meet its Sustainability and Diversity & Inclusion commitments
- Qualified, e.g. ACCA/ACA/CIMA or CIA
- Internal audit, internal controls and/or risk management experience (preferably Big 4)
- Experience of the retail sector
- Experience of information technology/systems
- Experience with data analytics techniques in internal audit
Reference no: 97660