Enterprise Internal Audit Lead — Risk & Resilience

British Steel; Holme; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Defined contribution pension scheme

27 personal annual leave days + bank

Life Assurance

Sick pay scheme

Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Family friendly benefits including man

exceeding maternity, paternity, and

Job summary

British Steel in Scunthorpe is seeking an Internal Audit Manager to lead the development and day-to-day operation of the enterprise internal audit function, providing independent, risk-based assurance over governance, risk management and controls supporting the company’s strategic objectives.

The role translates the Internal Audit Policy and Charter into a practical audit programme for a complex manufacturing organisation, expanding ISO 19011 capabilities and extending assurance into enterprise

Qualifications

• Significant experience of internal audit, assurance, governance, risk, compliance or equivalent activity within a large or complex organisation.
• Demonstrable ability to plan and lead risk-based audits.
• Strong understanding of governance, risk management and internal control.
• Ability to analyse complex information and distinguish material issues from routine process weaknesses.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including confidence engaging senior executives.
• Strong report-writing and presentation capability.
• Ability to maintain independence while developing constructive relationships with management.
• Experience leading or coordinating multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the risk-based enterprise audit programme, ensuring audit activity is traceable to strategic objectives, principal risks and material control requirements.
• Prioritise audit activity according to materiality, residual risk, strength of existing assurance and the needs of ARAC, the Board and Executive leadership.
• Coordinate the transition from the initial three assurance objectives - Protect People, Protect the Licence to Operate and Protect Steel Production - towards the wider seven-objective enterprise assurance model.
• Lead and undertake complex or strategically significant audit engagements.
• Promote identification of root causes, systemic weaknesses, emerging themes and opportunities to improve effectiveness, efficiency and resilience.
• Coordinate appropriately with Risk Management, management-system audit teams, Compliance, Finance, HSE, Environment, Quality, Information Security, Business Continuity and other assurance providers.
• Lead and develop Enterprise Audit Business Partners and seconded audit personnel.

Job description

British Steel in Scunthorpe is seeking an Internal Audit Manager to lead the development and day-to-day operation of the enterprise internal audit function, providing independent, risk-based assurance over governance, risk management and controls supporting the company’s strategic objectives.

The role translates the Internal Audit Policy and Charter into a practical audit programme for a complex manufacturing organisation, expanding ISO 19011 capabilities and extending assurance into enterprise