Internal Auditor

Are you passionate about internal audit? Do you have proven expertise and skills within risk based auditing? Do you want to play a key role in assisting Bromford achieve its strategic goals and are aligned to our purpose - we invest in homes and relationships so people can thrive? You belong at Bromford.

Reporting to the Head of Internal Audit, as Internal Auditor, you will support the Internal Audit function to deliver our third line Internal Audit programme across the business on behalf of a wide range of stakeholders. You’ll liaise with senior leadership teams to identify areas of vulnerability where a formal audit might add significant value.

In this role, you’ll develop and maintain exceptional relationships across our business areas, in-house second line assurance team as well as our externally provided co-source internal audit partners. You’ll undertake end to end internal audit activity including leading on closing meetings where appropriate. You will confidently present your findings and recommendations to senior leadership teams and formal forums, groups and committees within our governance structure.

Using a risk-based approach you’ll monitor, report and present progress on the completion of outstanding third line audit actions using our risk management system to a range of audiences. You will effectively project manage a varied workload including the ability to multi-task on quality work deliverables. You’ll actively contribute to the development and continual improvement of the planning and delivery of the internal audit process.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to harness your audit experience and really make an impact. This is a roaming role with a mix of office and remote working, normally at least two days of the week will be in one of our workspaces, predominantly our Tewkesbury (GL20) office.

**We are looking for you to bring these skills and experience**:

- Previous experience in risk based auditing or a similar role.
- Desirable experience in housing or other regulated sector.
- A keen eye for detail and naturally inquisitive.
- Ability to assess risks and test internal controls.
- Ability to communicate with and confidently challenge colleagues of all levels of seniority.
Excellent negotiator and ability to use mediation skills.
- Strong written communicator, ensuring balance between conciseness and any supporting detail needed.
- Excellent verbal communication and presenting skills.
- Professional auditing qualifications (ACA or CIIA) preferred though not essential
- Desire and drive to learn, grow and have impact quickly as part of an expanding team
- Good time management skills and precision in delivery
- Driving licence and access to a vehicle, allowing you to travel to offices - multi site locations and teams, construction sites and localities across our geography, as required

**A place to be you**

Being able to express yourself at work helps you connect with people and gives you the freedom to perform better at your job. We believe diversity helps drive success, so we want to build a culture where all our differences are celebrated. Everybody should feel that they belong and are able to bring their true, authentic selves to work. We want an organisation that reflects the communities and the people that we serve and if we can achieve this, we know that we will create an environment where everyone is included and can thrive.

**About us**

We are a housing association - one of the biggest in the country, with 45,000 homes spread across central and south west England. We believe in providing warm, safe and secure homes. But ultimately, we’re a people business. Not only do we care about the 100,000 people who live in our homes, we want them to thrive.

We believe that having a great place to call home is just the start and with the right relationships and someone who believes in your potential, almost anything is possible. Our customers are the people that live in our homes for rent and shared ownership. Our customers are also those who rent our garages and our commercial buildings and those buying one of our homes for outright sale. That’s why we will continue to make a difference by investing in relationships and in connecting people, so our customers get to where they want to be. Because when they succeed, we succeed and that success drives us to do even more.