Senior Audit Consultant- 9 Month FTC

Carnival Cruise Line; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Audit Consultant for a 9-month fixed-term contract in Southampton. This role offers the chance to lead complex audits, enhance operational efficiency, and provide valuable insights to management. With a flexible hybrid working model, you will collaborate with a diverse global team while enjoying a comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes your well-being and professional growth. If you are passionate about audit and risk management, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Annual Bonus

Employee Discounted Cruising

Health Insurance

Learning and Development Opportunities

Flexible Working Hours

Employee Assistance Programs

Recognition Scheme

Contributory Pension Scheme

Onsite Restaurant

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Relevant degree and/or professional qualification required.
• Experience in management consulting or internal audit preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end reviews of complex business processes.
• Prepare reporting to communicate audit results.

Skills

Project Management

Communication Skills

Data Analysis

Risk Assessment

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Business

Professional Qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIA)

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

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Job Description

We recognise the value in having people with a variety of backgrounds, experience and skills in our business. That means the role requirements here should be seen as a guide, not a checklist. If you have more, less or different experiences, but really relevant skills, we’d love to hear from you.

We work flexibly and will help you to find a healthy balance of remote working and time in our fantastic Southampton office, collaborating, taking part in events and getting to know people that makes working with us so rewarding. We welcome the opportunity to discuss reduced hours and job share arrangements.

The Role

Risk Advisory and Assurance Services (RAAS) is a diverse global team, recognized by the Audit Committee and senior management as their partner for providing advisory and assurance services on the company’s most significant strategic, financial, operational, technology and compliance risks.

The Senior Audit Consultant is responsible for leading end to end reviews of complex business processes and controls in order to provide an independent assessment of their design and effectiveness. Further, they leverage best practice to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of operations and provide meaningful business insight.

The Senior Audit Consultant Is Accountable For The Following

• Develop the planning and scoping for complex/multi-functional reviews to ensure appropriate audit coverage.
• Perform walkthroughs to develop understanding of processes & controls, identify areas of risk and develop tests accordingly.
• Perform testing, data analysis and benchmarking, as appropriate, to assess controls.
• Identify issues/opportunities to improve operations and the related root cause and impact.
• Prepare reporting to communicate audit results.
• Lead meetings and present to management on issue/opportunities identified.
• Effectively manage project progress and status, including budget/milestone tracking and reporting.

Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK08 and is offered on a fix term 9 month contract, with at least three days based in our Southampton office. There will be travel within the role to work on board our ships, visit our global talent partners around the world and to attend global and regional conferences.

About You

Fresh ideas and different perspectives are what excite us most and help us to succeed. Alongside bringing these to the role, you’ll also need:

• Relevant bachelor’s degree (ideally in accounting or business) and/or a Professional Qualification (such as ACA, ACCA or CIA).
• Professional experience with a management consulting firm or large/complex internal audit department (ideally within the Big 4).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong project management, time management and organisational skills.
• Prior success conducting internal and/or external audits.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Teams.

Benefits

We’re a holiday company so we know there’s more to life than work. Our comprehensive range of benefits are designed to help your personal and financial health and wellbeing, including:

• A friendly welcome with help settling in
• Home and office-based hybrid working (minimum two office days)
• Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Annual bonus
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• Employee-led networks
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
• Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
• Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment
• In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
• Life Assurance
• Parental and adoption leave
• Employee Shares Plan
• Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes
• Onsite restaurant offering range of healthy cooked and grab and go meals
• Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal

About Us

Holidays are one of life’s greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.

No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the world’s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain’s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.

Our diverse yet tight-knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.

It’s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travel’s Employer of Choice.

Additional Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Accounting/Auditing and Finance
• Industries: Travel Arrangements

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