Internal Audit Manager

Affinity Water; Hatfield; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Learning and development opportunities

Annual bonus scheme

Additional annual leave up to 5 days

Affinity volunteering days

Life Assurance

Job summary

Affinity Water is seeking an experienced Internal Audit Manager to lead the risk-based audit programme, manage a high-performing team and provide insight to strengthen controls across the organisation.

The role involves developing the annual audit plan, delivering audits from planning to reporting, and partnering with senior stakeholders including the Executive Leadership Team and Audit Committee to challenge and improve risk management.

Qualifications

• University degree and ACCA or MIIA qualification.
• Significant post-qualification internal audit experience at supervisory or management level.
• Strong knowledge of risk management and risk-based auditing within an internal control framework.
• Experience managing and developing a high-performing audit team.
• Experience delivering audits from planning and fieldwork through to reporting and follow-up.
• Experience facilitating workshops and engaging stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, investigative and problem-solving skills.
• The confidence and resilience to challenge constructively and stand behind your professional judgement.
• Strong organisation and time management skills.
• Good IT skills, including Word and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and delivery of the annual risk-based audit and testing plan.
• Manage the Internal Audit team and oversee audit quality and timeliness.
• Lead audits from planning through reporting and follow-up.
• Plan and deliver risk-based audit assignments in line with IIA standards.
• Facilitate workshops and exit meetings with constructive challenge.
• Produce clear audit reports for executives and Audit Committee.
• Identify and elevate significant risks, control weaknesses and findings.
• Follow up on actions and ensure recommendations are implemented.
• Support the Head of Compliance, Risk & Internal Audit with wider leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement across Internal Audit processes.

Skills

Management experience

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

IT literacy

Education

University degree

ACCA or MIIA

Tools

Word

Excel

Data analytics

Job description

At Affinity Water, we're committed to doing the right thing for our customers, our communities and our business. We're looking for an experienced Internal Audit Manager to join our Compliance, Risk & Internal Audit team and lead our risk-based audit programme, manage a high-performing team and provide insight and challenge to help strengthen controls and manage risk across the organisation.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced audit professional who enjoys working with people as well as processes and controls. You'll work closely with senior stakeholders, including the Executive Leadership Team and Audit, Risk & Assurance Committee, and have a real opportunity to influence how we manage risk and assurance.

What you'll be doing

As an Internal Audit Manager, you'll lead the development and delivery of our annual risk-based audit and testing plan, manage the Internal Audit team and oversee the quality and timely delivery of audits. You'll also lead your own audits, from planning and fieldwork through to reporting and follow-up.

You’ll also:

• Lead development of the annual Internal Audit plan, working with senior stakeholders to identify key risks.
• Manage, support and develop the Internal Audit team.
• Plan and deliver risk-based audit assignments in line with IIA standards.
• Facilitate audit workshops and exit meetings, encouraging constructive challenge and ownership.
• Produce clear audit reports for stakeholders, the Executive Leadership Team and Audit, Risk & Assurance Committee.
• Identify and elevate significant risks, control weaknesses and findings.
• Follow up on agreed actions and ensure recommendations are implemented.
• Support the Head of Compliance, Risk & Internal Audit with wider departmental leadership.
• Lead continuous improvement across Internal Audit processes.

What we’re looking for

You’ll be an experienced internal audit professional with strong management experience, technical knowledge, excellent judgement and the confidence to challenge and influence stakeholders at all levels.

Essential experience

• A university degree and professional accounting or auditing qualification, such as ACCA or MIIA.
• Significant post-qualification internal audit experience at supervisory or management level.
• Strong knowledge of risk management and risk-based auditing within an internal control framework.
• Experience managing and developing a high-performing audit team.
• Experience delivering audits from planning and fieldwork through to reporting and follow-up.
• Experience facilitating workshops and engaging stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, investigative and problem-solving skills.
• The confidence and resilience to challenge constructively and stand behind your professional judgement.
• Strong organisation and time management skills.
• Good IT skills, including Word and Excel.

Desirable experience

• Experience using data analytics within Internal Audit.
• Experience working in a regulated environment.
• Experience presenting to senior leadership or Audit Committees.

Advert closes - Friday 23rd October

Benefits:

• Salary from £70,000 dependent on skills and experience
• Car allowance - £4,305
• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.
• Annual leave from 26-30 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
• A 'Celebration Day' in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets through our Tap4Perks scheme
• Discounts on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme through salary sacrifice
• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.
• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

You can find out what it's like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.