Internal Audit Manager (Change/Project)

Standard Life (previously Phoenix Group); Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Private medical cover

38 days annual leave

Excellent pension

Life assurance 12x salary

Job summary

Standard Life is seeking a Change Internal Audit Manager to join our Group Internal Audit function. The role is based on a hybrid basis with a preference for Edinburgh or Birmingham and requires regular face-to-face stakeholder engagement.

You will lead end-to-end audits, challenge risk and control environments and build strong relationships with senior management. Flexible working is supported within a lean, collaborative team.

Qualifications

• Excellent planning and organisation skills across delivery and governance.
• Ability to identify risks and articulate high level control opinions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder influence at executive level.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end audits across a portfolio of programmes and projects.
• Challenge the effectiveness of risk, governance and control environments.
• Provide influential insight to senior management and boards.
• Manage relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

Skills

Excellent planning & organisation

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Leadership

Adaptability

Strategic thinking

Education

Professional Qualification (Prince2/PMP/MSP)

Job description

Job Description

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh or Birmingham on a hybrid basis, with normally a minimum of 2 days a week working in the office and the rest working at home. We believe that benefits both you and our business, helping ensure that you can balance a successful career with your life outside of work while maximising the value of face-to-face stakeholder engagement. You can meet and work with our colleagues in different locations as required by the audit work you undertake, and thus an appropriate level of business travel is expected with this role.

Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.

Closing Date: 5th October

Salary and benefits: £65,000 to £80,000 depending on experience, plus an indicative bonus range of 16% to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

Who are we?

We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.

Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards.We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.

The role

As a Change Internal Audit Manager,you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to Standard Life by challenging the effectiveness of the risk, governance, and control environment. You will help provide influential insight through the work you deliver. You will work across a portfolio of audits and ad-hoc projects over a variety of areas aligned to the group’s strategy and core customer purpose and execute each audit end to end to agreed timelines. You will also manage relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

Working for a large organisation like Standard Life can seem daunting at first – fear not! While you will enjoy considerable autonomy, you will be a key valued member of our team. We have a lean flat structure, and you will have theguidance and supportfrom the rest of the team, with access to a wide range of skills and experience for support across Group Internal Audit.

The ideal candidate will have the following personal attributes and skills:

• Excellent planning and organisation skills, balancing audit deliveries with external demands/responsibilities and managing multiple activities and priorities
• Breadth of knowledge required across the full spectrum of project and transformation risk areas and control frameworks
• Identifying risks and key root cause themes across varied/complex key business areas, and articulating an appropriate high level control opinion to senior management.
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to build credible stakeholder relationships and influence/hold debates at executive and senior management level and at senior governance and board committees.
• Demonstrable ability to adapt and deliver in a fast-moving complex and changing environment
• Great leadership skills, including strategic thought, creativity and outcome focus, and effective decision making.

What are we looking for?

• A relevant Professional Qualification, change / project credentials such as Prince2, PMP, MSP or equivalent is preferred.
• Experience in managing or providing assurance over organisational project and transformation activities is desirable.