Senior Internal Auditor

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

- 242564**Salary**:

- £39,195 - £53,324- London: £43,160 - £53,324 / National: £39,195 - £45,386**Grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- GIAA: OD1 - DDI - PPM Specialist**Type of role**:

- Internal Audit**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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- This role can be based in Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Norwich, or SheffieldAbout the job

**Summary**:
**About Government Internal Audit Agency**

We are an executive agency of Her Majesty’s Treasury (HM Treasury), established in April 2015 to improve the quality of internal audit provided to central government.
- Most of the Agency’s people are professionally qualified internal auditors, accountants or investigators.
- Many are also specialists in areas including counter fraud, project management, digital and commercial audit.
- We lead both the Government Internal Audit Profession and the Government Internal Audit Function.
- Our workforce brings with it a unique depth of experience gained in a wide range of government departments, related bodies and other sectors.
- This enables us to offer a high-quality service based on cross-government insight and a strong understanding of our customers’ business.
- In GIAA, we aim to be a great place to work and to ensure that we have the capability and capacity to make even more of a significant contribution to achieving A Brilliant Civil Service over the coming years.
- Our initial focus was on becoming “a single audit practice”. We are now focused on taking GIAA to the next level so we can provide better insights and better outcomes for government.**Job description**:
This is a great career opportunity to join a fast-paced and growing organisation, using your expertise and knowledge of internal audit and project and programme management to make a really positive impact on our customers.

The roles are based in the PPM Team, which is one of six Specialisms within the Agency. The PPM Team provides independent assurance and advice to Government major projects and programmes. We are looking to recruit from a variety of backgrounds to improve GIAA’s experience and skills base. The Team is expanding due to increased sustained demand for specialist PPM work being commissioned from the Agency.

PPM auditors are responsible for delivery of audit and assurance work across a varied and interesting range of customers and projects and programmes, either working individually or leading a small team of auditors. You will be allocated a portfolio of work around a core cluster of customers, while also having the opportunity to broaden your experience by working on new topics or with new customers. With access to high profile work, you will work alongside key decision makers, audit specialists and private sector contractors within the Agency, challenging and developing your skills as well as ensuring we meet our customers’ expectations.

Senior Auditors are one of the key day-to-day contacts for our clients and their ability to build good relationships with a variety of stakeholders whilst delivering efficient and robust audit work is key to the success of the Agency’s relationship with our clients. We value all our employees and will offer you support in maintaining and building your professional career through technical training, coaching and development opportunities. In addition, you are entitled to a formidable range of benefits from a generous pension provision, embracing of flexible work patterns, diversity and security.

**Responsibilities**:

- Be an effective team member, supporting wider GIAA delivery by working constructively and flexibly with colleagues to deliver appropriate objectives;
- Manage your own time and resource effectively; proactively identify, foresee and take ownership of issues affecting delivery of your and the wider teams’ objectives and provides solutions and options ahead of deadlines;
- Provide and deliver clear and accurate reports that meet the requirements of the customers and carry out activities to ensure that agreed management actions are completed;
- Be accountable for delivery of a portfolio of audits, working on more than one assignment at once, possibly on different customers, to budget and quality expectations, complying with GIAA methodology, using our IT audit software system;
- To scope audit assignments, including drafting terms of reference, testing strategies, fieldwork plans, reporting timetables and focus work on identified risks; single audit methodology and audit management software.

**Key Skills**
- To work with professional skill and be a trusted adviser to clients, responsible for working level relationships with key contacts;
- Actively work with others while sharing expertise and experience, coachin