Senior Audit and Assurance Specialist

UHBW Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Bristol is seeking a Senior Audit and Assurance Specialist. This role involves conducting audits, preparing reports, and managing audit plans to ensure compliance with internal standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in audit and assurance services, contributing to the overall quality and effectiveness of the internal audit function.

Qualifications

• Experience in audit assignments of complex and non-financial nature.
• Ability to manage substantial elements of client audit plans.

Responsibilities

• Undertake audit work and prepare audit reports.
• Support the Senior Audit and Assurance Manager in delivering audit services.

Skills

Audit

Assurance

Internal Control

Job description

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As organisations look for audit and assurance services to provide added value through the use of audit and assurance specialists, the purpose of this role is primarily to undertake audit work and prepare audit reports in line with internal audit’s statutory responsibility to independently and objectively review, evaluate and report on the adequacy of clients’ systems of internal control.

The Post Holder Will Support The Senior Audit And Assurance Manager In The Delivery Of The Internal Audit Service To Organisations Within ASW Assurance By

• Performing a large range of audit assignments of a complex/ad-hoc and non-financial nature in addition to a broad range of routine financial, governance and operational audit assignments in line with Public Sector Internal Audit Standards and the ASW Assurance Audit Manual, to agreed timescales. This may be based upon an overall generic supervisory and support role or acting as a Consortium expert lead for a defined specialist area.
• Responding to a broad range of requests for advice and assistance and queries from clients including sensitive, confidential and complex issues from all levels of client staff.
• Taking extensive responsibility for the operational audit management of substantial allocated elements of client audit plans in support of the Senior Audit and Assurance Manager’s overall responsibility to deliver all client operational audit plans.
  
  

Please note a face-to-face interview is required for this role.

• Contribute to the delivery of ASW Assurance’s Business Plan.
• Ensure the delivery of client operational internal audit plans.
• Ensure assignments, including those where the post holder is supervising junior staff and/or where post holder has responsibility for substantial elements of the operational audit plans, conform to the expectations of the quality standards and professional expectations (e.g. duty of care, independence etc.) as stated in the Public Internal Audit Standards, ASW Assurance Audit Manual and NHS Managers Code of Conduct.
• Ensure that assignments, including those where the post holder is supervising junior staff and/or where post holder has responsibility for substantial elements of the operational audit plans, are completed within timescales as stated in the operational audit plan of the client/agreed with the Senior Audit and Assurance Manager.
• Achieve personal and business-related objectives and targets set as part of the annual appraisal process and documented in the agreed personal development plan.
• Undertake any training required in order to maintain competency, including mandatory training.
• Ensure an understanding of the client’s business activities is maintained and to keep abreast of current issues within the NHS and internal audit profession.
• Contribute to and work within a safe working environment.
  
  

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.

UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Marina Willis Job title: Senior Audit and Assurance Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07856615264

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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