Senior Audit Manager - MIAA

Health Jobs UK; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare recruitment service is seeking a Senior Audit Manager to oversee audit work and manage relationships with clients in the NHS. The role requires a professional accountancy qualification and significant audit experience, alongside excellent communication and analytical skills. Applicants with NHS experience will be prioritized. This position is based in Liverpool and expects adherence to confidentiality and governance standards.

Qualifications

• Professional accountancy qualification is essential.
• Experience of working in audit is a must.
• Understanding of corporate governance and audit principles.

Responsibilities

• Manages planning and conduct of audit work for allocated clients.
• Operates as budget holder for allocated plans.
• Complies with confidentiality policies.

Skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Excellent analytical skills

Strong supervision and staff management

Negotiation and persuasion abilities

Good time management skills

Education

Professional accountancy qualification (CCAB)

MIIA with PQE experience

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Produces, agrees, and oversees delivery of risk-based plans with allocated clients that are designed to produce sufficient assurances to fulfil the requirements of the Head of Internal Audit Opinion on the effectiveness of internal control.

Manages the planning, conduct, output, and opinions for all audit work for allocated clients within agreed deadlines, budgets, and quality standards.

Operates as budget holder for allocated plans i.e., a discrete set of services, requiring the planning and organising of complex activities and programmes to ensure income is recovered, costs contained, and outputs delivered. Often these budgeted plans need to be adjusted on an ongoing basis for reporting to Audit Committees as priorities shift.

Fully complies with all aspects of the confidentiality policy.

For further information please read job description and person specification in full.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria:

• Professional accountancy qualification (CCAB) qualified plus significant demonstrable PQE plus self-certified CPD plus experience of operating at Board level/equivalent /, presenting to Audit Committee and influencing Executive and Non-Executive Directors. OR
• MIIA plus significant demonstrable PQE plus self-certified CPD for a significant period plus experience of operating at Board level, presenting to Audit Committee, and influencing Executive and Non-Executive Directors plus experience knowledge and skills/equivalent.

Desirable criteria:

• Professional healthcare qualification recognised by UK professional body/Quality Improvement qualification plus significant demonstrable PQE skills, knowledge, experience, and expertise.

Experience

Essential criteria:

• Must have experience of working in audit and demonstrable understanding of audit role and techniques.
• Must have experience of managing and supervising staff.

Desirable criteria:

• Experience of working in NHS or other public sector organization resulting in a good understanding of systems and processes is desirable for the post. Alternative experience in an equivalent organization may be acceptable.

Knowledge

Essential criteria:

• To demonstrate a full understanding of NHS structure, policy, functions, and systems together with the aptitude to build on that knowledge.
• Must understand corporate governance, risk management and assurance principles and practice.
• To demonstrate a full understanding of audit and financial principles and practice together with the aptitude to build on that knowledge.

Skills

Essential criteria:

• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills to enable complicated audit and financial issues to be explained to a range of NHS staff, often at a senior level. This will include presentational, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Must have excellent analytical skills and have the ability to collate complex data from various sources.
• Must have strong supervision, staff management, coaching and mentoring skills.
• Must have the ability to negotiate and persuade, sometimes in a setting that is unresponsive or hostile to audit findings.
• Must have a good level of numeracy, keyboard skills and computer literacy (ECDL or equivalent).
• Must have the ability to make judgements and recommendations in the context of complex systems and risk and materiality of findings.
• Must have good time management skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines whilst managing competing priorities.

Important information and application guidance

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to 'internal staff' are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Documents to download

• Job Description & Person Specification ( PDF , 440.6 KB )
• Senior Audit Manager ( PDF , 440.6 KB )
• Senior Audit Manager MIAA ( PDF , 176.6 KB )
• MIAA Values ( PDF , 291.0 KB )