Group Internal Audit Manager

Aila Recruitment; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Hybrid working

12% Pension

Private Medical

Job summary

Aila Recruitment is partnering with a leading UK manufacturer and retailer to appoint a Group Internal Audit Manager on a permanent basis. The role is based in Northampton or Watford with flexible base and hybrid working.

You'll report to the Group Senior Audit Manager, plan, manage and deliver the Internal Audit plan, and drive improvements to the Group's control framework while leading audit projects and influencing the Leadership team.

Qualifications

• ACA/ACCA qualified with strong internal audit knowledge.
• Experience coordinating audit teams and day-to-day management of reviews.
• Experience in annual audit planning and providing risk insights.
• Background in a dynamic operating environment with stakeholder engagement.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to influence at executive level.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage and deliver the Internal Audit plan across the Group.
• Lead audit projects, coordinating small teams and multiple assignments.
• Engage with Leadership to scope, deliver and report on audits.
• Improve audit practices and drive improvements to the control framework.
• Provide concise audit reports and monitor the implementation of recommendations.

Skills

Audit leadership

Communication skills

ACA/ACCA Qualified

Education

ACA/ACCA Qualified Accountant

Job description

Group Internal Audit Manager

£75,000 - £80,000 + £7,300 Car Allowance

+ up to 25% Annual Bonus

Northampton or Watford (flexible base)

Are you an experienced Qualified Internal Auditor with industry
experience, looking for a role where you'll genuinely shape the
control environment of a market-leading UK business? Aila is
partnered with a leading UK manufacturing and retail business in
the appointment of a Group Internal Audit Manager on a permanent
basis.

About the Company:

FTSE 100 market-leading manufacturer and retailer
A business investing heavily in its risk and control framework,
with Internal Audit sitting at the heart of the process.
A collaborative Group Internal Audit function and genuine
leadership opportunity

The Role:

Reporting into the Group Senior Audit Manager, you'll play a
central role in planning, managing and delivering the Internal
Audit plan, while continuously improving the team's practices and
methodology. You'll regularly engage with and influence the
Leadership team to plan, scope, deliver and report on audit
assignments, driving tangible improvements to the Group's overall
control framework.

You’ll lead audit projects across the Group with a significant
degree of independence, coordinating small teams, and juggling
multiple assignments concurrently. You will autonomously lead
Internal audits and be encouraged to progress into a future
leader of this function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the delivery of audit assignments, individually and
• within a team, from planning through to reporting.
• Significantly influence Leadership teams to ensure risks are
• understood and appropriate control frameworks are developed
• Work closely with the Group Risk team to provide robust
• assurance over existing and emerging risks, including Fraud and
• ESG.
• Identify weaknesses in existing controls and make suitable
• recommendations to reduce risk exposure.
• Sit on project and programme boards for major change
• programmes, acting as a critical partner in improving Group-wide
• controls.
• Work with co-source partners from planning through delivery,
• ensuring their output matches the quality and timescales of the
• internal team.
• Provide concise, focused and informative audit reports,
• monitoring and championing the implementation of recommendations
• with the Leadership team
• Lead continuous improvement activity for the audit team,
• identifying opportunities to enhance the audit methodology's
• efficiency and effectiveness
• Develop KPI dashboards and input into Audit Committee papers on
• plan progress and recommendation delivery, within committee
• reporting timescales.

The Ideal Candidate:

• 8+ years' experience in audit, both in practice and internal
• ACA/ACCA Qualified Accountant and thorough knowledge of
• internal audit practices, principles and procedures.
• Experience coordinating audit teams, including day-to-day
• operational management of audit reviews.
• Experience of the annual audit planning process, providing
• insight on key risks for the plan each year
• Background in a similarly dynamic operating environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the
• ability to convey complex, technical situations in plain English
• to influence change up to Executive level

What they Offer:

• £75,000 - £80,000 base salary.
• £7,300 car allowance.
• 25% annual bonus.
• Hybrid working with a flexible base location across Group
• sites.
• 12% Pension
• Private Medical