Internal Auditor

**Internal Auditor**

**Leeds, West Yorkshire LS11**

**£43000 - £50000**

**Permanent role 35hrs per week 8.00am - 4.30pm Monday to Friday**

Hawk 3 Talent Solutions are recruiting for a talented Internal Auditor who can lead the way in shaping my clients approach to compliance as they take their offering to the next level.

**The Role**

Reporting into the Head of Risk and General Counsel, you will develop and execute an annual plan to provide compliance and monitoring support to the wider business. This will entail carrying out audits and reviews to reduce risk, as well as identifying opportunities for improvement. This is an incredibly influential role in which you will be at the forefront of ensuring that we remain compliant with both our regulatory and internal standards.

The Internal Audit role is a demanding but rewarding one. To be successful in the role, you will be a proactive individual with self-management skills, with strong interpersonal abilities that allow you to influence at a senior level. You will see the impact of your work from day one, with your efforts making a positive impact on our customers, clients and colleagues, as well as the business as a whole.

You will also have the opportunity to collaborate and build relationships with stakeholders across the business, working closely with departments such as HR, Litigation and IT to manage reviews that will play a crucial role as we shape the future of our Compliance and Audit strategy.

Your career so far may have been in investigation, legal, audit, due diligence or similar roles, reviewing data and processes, interviewing personnel, and obtaining information in order to establish whether policies, procedures, laws or regulations have been adhered to or whether there are opportunities for improvement. You will have become adept in writing reports and explaining your rationale and findings. Your experience of working within a regulated industry will mean you are familiar with researching and keeping in touch with regulatory changes, developing and changing review plans and execution accordingly.

**Duties**

**Compliance, Client and Third Party Monitoring**
- Leading the development of each year’s annual audit and review plan, ensuring that the plan reflects business risks, priorities and meets the board’s aims
- Defining and agreeing the review scope, timelines, and an agreed terms of reference for each audit by working collaboratively with business stakeholders
- Identifying the policies, external regulations, and third party standards that are relevant to the review
- Request, analyse and record documentation reviewed to support the testing and field work
- Conduct interviews and observations
- Keep key stakeholders appraised of progress and build a final report that clearly articulates the key findings
- Lead close out meetings to agree actions
- Logging and monitoring actions agreed from reviews, reporting and following up until actions closed
- These reviews will focus on our internal business processes, compliance and performance; internal reviews to assist and provide assurance to clients; internal reviews to support external quality standards (for example Investors in People, ISO27001); and external reviews of key suppliers to ensure they are complying with agreed standards, contract terms etc.

**Risk Management**
- Preparing and analysing management information
- Supporting the effective development and management of the Risk Management Framework
- Conducting risk assessments
- Implementing and adjusting appropriate risk monitoring and controls

**Skills/Experience/Knowledge**
- At least three years of combined experience of working in an internal audit, investigations, due diligence or similar role with responsibility for conducting business and process audits, whether as an auditor, solicitor, insurance professional or other investigator
- At least two years of experience in reviewing data and processes, conducting interviews, and preparing clear audit reports, including recommendations for improvement
- Personable, professional, self-driven and comfortable meeting targets
- Awareness of Data Protection legislation
- Educated to university level or equivalent and English/Maths to at least GCSE standard
- Knowledge and experience of working within a regulated industry
- Microsoft Office packages e.g. Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook

**Benefits**

**Lifestyle Rewards**
- 35 hour working week
- Free City Centre Parking
- 27 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
- On top of that, additional Paid Leave for your Birthday
- Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve paid leave (when falling on a working day)
- Flexible Holidays - a number of which can be taken hourly
- Holiday Exchange - buy / sell holiday
- Extra holiday for length of service - 1 extra day after 3, 4 and 5 years
- Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Pay
- Business-casual dress code

**Financial Rewards**
- Punctuality and attendance-based financial rewards
- Financ