Senior Audit Manager

GOVERNMENT INTERNAL AUDIT AGENCY; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Audit Manager to lead audit portfolios, ensuring quality and timely delivery. The ideal candidate will have a strong audit background, strategic leadership skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Flexible working options are available. The role offers competitive salaries, a generous pension scheme, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Flexible working

Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions

Discounts on major brands and supermarkets

Paid volunteering days

Season ticket loans/Cycle to work scheme

Free eyesight test

Family friendly HR policies

25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 after 5 years

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in managing audit engagements from planning to reporting.
• Ability to lead and manage a portfolio of audit delivery.
• Experience fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage audit portfolios ensuring quality and timeliness.
• Shape and implement audit strategy and engage key stakeholders.
• Uphold and strengthen quality assurance within audit functions.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic alignment

Continuous improvement

Quality assurance

Relationship management

Education

Full current membership of recognised professional accountancy/audit body

Job description

About GIAA

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is driven by its unparalleled access across government to build better insights, better outcomes for our clients. This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, partner engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government. The Agency’s unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully, and continue developing professionally.

About the Role

The Senior Audit Manager role requires a deep understanding of your clients’ operations, key risks and priorities whilst building strong, productive relationships at all levels. You will be an experienced, confident and strategic leader providing portfolio direction and alignment, adept at fostering a culture of continuous improvement, upholding quality assurance, championing innovation and driving professional development and learning for our people.

Responsibilities

• Take a strategic leadership and delivery role leading and managing a portfolio of audit delivery from planning through to reporting. Acting as the engagement supervisor for all audits within your agreed allocation. You will drive the continuous professional development of our people including effective allocation of audit resource based on skills, capacity, and priorities to optimise overall Agency delivery
• Shape and drive the implementation of an audit strategy and plan, identifying key risks, you will engage partners with credibility and impact and work closely with colleagues including Group Chief Internal Auditors (GCIAs).
• Have a key role in upholding quality assurance and strengthening the function, including championing the development of a risk-orientated culture. You will ensure timeliness of each review in line with budget and compliance with GIAA audit methodology and systems.
• Provide portfolio direction and alignment you will foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and learning, ensuring audit services remain responsive to risk priorities.
• Fulfil the role of Head of Internal Audit (HIA – the equivalent of the Chief Audit Executive in the Global Internal Audit Standards in the UK Public Sector) for Arm’s Length Bodies (subject to appropriate opportunities being available).

About You

All candidates will need to demonstrate full current membership of recognised professional accountancy/audit body.

You will lead and manage a portfolio of audit delivery, including delivering individual audit engagements from planning through to reporting, providing people management, engagement supervision and oversight to teams delivering individual engagement in a matrix model and fulfilling the role of Head of Internal Audit (HIA – the equivalent of the Chief Audit Executive in the Global Internal Audit Standards in the UK Public Sector for Arms Lengths bodies (subject to appropriate opportunities being available).

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, and we welcome applications from candidates who wish to work flexibly, for example, part-time, term time or job share.

Hybrid Working is available to GIAA colleagues. This means a combination of office working and working from home. This includes time spent in our GIAA office locations and can also include any time spent attending our customers' sites.

GIAA has an expectation for all colleagues to attend their local workplace regularly and to attend client sites for key meetings and when undertaking fieldwork.

Benefits of working for us

• Competitive salaries and in year rewards
• Flexible working
• Competitive contributory pension scheme with employer contributions starting from 28.97%.
• Discounts on big brands and supermarkets, online shops and on the high street.
• Paid volunteering days
• Season ticket loans/Cycle to work scheme
• Free eyesight test
• Family friendly HR policies
• 25 days annual leave, increasing one day each year to 30 days after 5 years’ service

For more information about the GIAA, role, salary, benefits, who to contact and how to apply please follow the Apply link.

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