Internal Audit

Robert Walters are exclusively representing a market leading business as they look to appoint a dynamic, ambitious Internal Audit & Risk Manager to build relationships across the business and support in the continued establishment and development of thecompliance and risk management framework.

The Role:
Internal Audit
- Deliver individual audit assignments autonomously, with a minimum of supervision, so as to ensure that they are delivered to time and cost.
- Plan, control and record internal audit work effectively in order to obtain sufficient, relevant and reliable evidence to support audit conclusions.
- Write fluent, well-structured and timely audit reports summarising audit findings and make appropriate recommendations for improvement.
- Deploy inter-personal and communication skills to deal effectively with staff at all levels of seniority.
- Maintain a proactive and highly flexible approach to deal effectively with business challenges and requests which emerge unpredictably.
- Influence management to implement performance improvement opportunities identified by internal audit, group internal audit and external audit.
- Monitor and support the closure of audit actions agreed.
- Provide additional resource within the central finance team to support key periods within the annual cycle and ad-hoc projects, as required

Risk
- Supports the Head of Audit, Risk and Compliance in promoting and maintaining UK's corporate risk appetite, risk strategy and embedded risk management mechanisms in accordance with recognised best practice, and taking account of internal standards.
- Promotes and reinforces a risk management culture throughout the UK business, and supports the maintenance of the UK risk registers, ensuring that robust and reliable tools are used to record and communicate risk data to stakeholders.
- Collaborates with management to develop and maintain an effective and efficient business continuity planning (BCP) framework throughout the UK.
- Collaborates effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including Finance and Operations colleagues and insurance brokers, to ensure that insurable risks are mitigated, and that the insurance programme is efficiently and effectively structuredand integrated into the corporate risk framework.
- Ensures that fraud risks are effectively managed, within the fraud management framework.

Compliance
- Supports the leadership team promoting the development and maintenance of effective corporate compliance frameworks in specific areas, as agreed with the Chief Operations Officer and Group Finance Controller.
- Promotes practical and innovative solutions to compliance challenges, thereby adding value to the operations.
- Promotes the development and maintenance of a suitable company policy framework.
- Ensures adherence to agreed control minimum standards.
- Demonstrate a strong awareness of and commitment to Ethics and Compliance and the Group Code of Conduct.

**Experience**:

- ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent.
- Proven track record of achievement in internal or external audit or a closely-related discipline.
- Possesses technical expertise in the evaluation of financial and operational controls.
- High level of IT literacy, including strong spreadsheet skills.
- Good attention to detail and an ability to complete work quickly and accurately.
- Demonstrable experience of dealing with high volumes of complex data.
- Commercially focused, in order to be able to understand different business areas and the key controls required.
- Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with proven ability to write succinct, fluent and well-structured reports.
- Open to business travel.

For further details please contact Jonathan Kerr at Robert Walters directly.