Audit Manager

GOVERNMENT INTERNAL AUDIT AGENCY; Swansea; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK government agency is seeking an Audit Manager to oversee a portfolio of audits, ensuring timely and quality delivery. The role involves managing resources, developing audit strategies, and fostering strong relationships with clients. Qualified candidates must hold a current professional audit designation. This position offers opportunities for career progression, competitive salary, and benefits including flexible working, annual leave, and pension contributions.

Benefits

Competitive salaries and in-year rewards

Flexible working

Pension scheme with employer contributions

Discounts on big brands

Paid volunteering days

Family friendly HR policies

25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 after 5 years

Qualifications

• Strong experience in risk-based internal audits.
• Ability to lead and develop teams.
• Membership in a recognized professional audit body is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a portfolio of audits from planning to reporting.
• Ensure audit quality and timely reviews.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Skills

Experience in planning and delivering risk-based internal audits

Stakeholder relationship management

Leadership and team development

Education

Full current membership of a recognized professional audit or accountancy body

Job description

• Salary: London £62,411 - £72,617 / National: £58,429 - £68,132
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Working Pattern: This post is available on a full time or part time basis, and flexible working hours can be accommodated.
• Location: We will consider applications from people able to access the following offices: Birmingham, Bristol, Bootle, Croydon, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Reading and Swansea

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is driven by its unparalleled access across government to build better insights, better outcomes for our clients. This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government. The Agency’s unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully, and continue developing professionally.

About the Job

As an Audit Manager, you will play a key leadership role in delivering high quality, impactful audit programmes. You may work within a client team, one of our specialist teams or the central resourcing team. You will lead and manage a portfolio of audits from planning to reporting, supervise engagements in a matrix environment and, where opportunities arise, act as Head of Internal Audit (HIA) for Arm’s Length Bodies.

You will shape audit strategies, guide delivery and build strong relationships with clients by understanding their operations, risks and priorities. You will also work closely with Group Chief Internal Auditors to set direction across your portfolio.

This role provides a strong platform for career progression across the Agency and the wider Civil Service. Our broad access to public sector organisations gives you insight into a range of risk and control environments, helping you develop professionally while making a meaningful contribution.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and managing a portfolio of audits, ensuring delivery from planning to reporting and allocating resources effectively. You will also deliver audits in higher risk or more complex areas.
• Upholding audit quality and ensuring reviews are completed on time, within budget and in line with GIAA methodology.
• Providing leadership as a People Manager and or Engagement Manager, supporting auditors across regions, encouraging improvement and driving performance. Training is provided for those new to line management.
• Acting as an HIA by developing audit strategies and risk-based plans for clients and overseeing delivery against time, budget and quality expectations.
• Building a strong understanding of client operations and risks, managing stakeholder relationships and communicating challenging messages with clarity.
• Working alongside GCIAs to shape and deliver audit strategies and plans.

About You

You will bring strong experience in planning and delivering risk based internal audits, making confident decisions and adapting quickly to changing priorities. You think strategically and can interpret complex or conflicting information, using your judgement to reach sound, balanced conclusions.

You are skilled at building relationships across an organisation and can influence senior stakeholders to strengthen internal control, risk management and governance. You communicate clearly in writing and in person, translating complex audit issues into meaningful insight for senior and specialist audiences.

You have a proven ability to lead and develop teams within a matrix environment, whether as an engagement supervisor or people manager, supporting others to perform at their best and encouraging continuous improvement.

All candidates must hold full current membership of a recognised professional audit or accountancy body. This includes CMIIA or MIIA status through the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors UK and Ireland, or an equivalent IIA Global designation. Those who have passed exams but do not hold the designation are not eligible. Fully qualified members of CCAB bodies or CIMA are also eligible to apply.

Benefits of working for the Government Internal Audit Agency

• Competitive salaries and in year rewards
• Flexible working
• Competitive contributory pension scheme with employer contributions starting from 28.97%
• Discounts on big brands and supermarkets, online shops and on the high street
• Paid volunteering days
• Season ticket loans / Cycle to work scheme
• Free eyesight test
• Family friendly HR policies
• 25 days annual leave, increasing one day each year to 30 days after 5 years’ service

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, and we welcome applications from candidates who wish to work flexibly, for example, part-time, term time or job share.

Hybrid Working is available to GIAA colleagues. This means a combination of office working and working from home. This includes time spent in our GIAA office locations and can also include any time spent attending our customers' sites.

GIAA colleagues are expected to work in an office location for three days a week on average (60%). Naturally, this expectation will be applied on a pro‑rata basis for people who have a part-time or compressed hours working pattern.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at [e-mail].