Internal Auditor

**Details**:
**Reference number**:
194932

**Salary**:
£38,895 - £40,842

**Grade**:
Higher Executive Officer

**Contract type**:
Permanent

**Type of role**:
Audit
Internal Audit

**Working pattern**:
Full-time

**Number of posts**:
1

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Location

Cheltenham, London

About the job

**Summary**:
At MI5, MI6 and GCHQ we help protect the UK and UK interests from threats to national security at home and abroad. We work closely as partners in the intelligence community to safeguard Britain’s people, interests and businesses from various threats including cyber-attacks, espionage, terrorism, and organised crime.

We currently have vacancies for Auditors in our Internal Audit and Consultancy function - a diverse team that works as a trusted business partner with the agencies: protecting value, delivering insight, and developing talent and future leaders. We have privileged exposure to the work of the community as a whole and take pride in delivering high quality and impactful services, while continuously seeking opportunities to innovate. It’s challenging, varied and meaningful work that you simply won’t find anywhere else.

**Job description**:
We are looking for dynamic and committed people to support the Deputy Head of Internal Audit and Senior Auditors. You’ll deliver internal audit assurance and advisory work to MI5, MI6 and GCHQ at pace, covering a wide range of topics. Your remit will incorporate a range of operational and corporate areas, including topics that are truly unique to the intelligence community such as reviews of mission focused capabilities and adherence to the legal framework underpinning our mission work.

Your contribution will make a real difference. You’ll provide customers with high quality assurance, advisory and investigatory services that help strengthen and enhance our risk management, governance, and internal control arrangements. You’ll be working on a variety of audits and assignments. This could range from working as part of a small team to deliver a project or independently delivering less complex reviews.

The roles are based in London and/or Cheltenham (located within an hour’s journey of Birmingham and Bristol). The ability to travel within the UK is essential, with the possibility of occasional overseas travel.

In line with our focus on developing talent and future leaders, development opportunities will form an important part of this role. We will support you in achieving the professional qualifications you need to progress your career with us in Internal Auditing. You will be supported initially by a buddy, and by your line manager throughout your posting. Internal communities, support networks and mentors will also be available to you.

**Responsibilities**:
Regardless of specialism, you’ll be able to understand and evaluate business arrangements quickly and be a credible communicator who can interact with staff at all levels across the organisation.

Internal Auditor - Technology: You’ll have a diverse and broad technology background. We particularly value experience and expertise in relation to cyber security, ITGC, change management, technology infrastructure, cloud computing and service management. Most importantly, you’ll be passionate about learning and keeping up to date with emerging technologies and trends.

Internal Auditor - General: You’ll have a diverse and broad internal audit background. You will have experience of auditing a range of corporate and operational areas.

We are looking for talented individuals with:

- Internal audit and risk management experience in the public and/ or private sector;
- Experience of working on a portfolio of audit assignments and an ability to manage competing priorities and deliver audit work at pace, to time and quality commitments;
- The ability to engage and build relationships with stakeholders. This should include experience of negotiating and communicating with stakeholders at different levels in the organisation.
- A proactive mind-set, with an ability to identify methods or approaches to continuously improve internal audit capabilities and ways of working.
- Experience of data analytics tools and techniques to query data and use of data visualisation software are a bonus, but not a requirement for the role; and
- Experience of working on change and transformation programme audits is also desirable, but not a requirement of the role.

**Benefits**:
You’ll receive a starting salary of £40,842 (Central London) or £38,895 (Cheltenham) plus other benefits including:

- 25 Days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays.
- Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
- Personal Learning Budget.
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Excellent pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Facilities such as a subsidised gym and restaurant, and on-site coffee bars
- Paid parental and adoption