Project Reactivate - Internal Audit Opportunities

As one of the world's largest networks of audit, tax and consulting firms, RSM delivers big ideas and premium service to help middle-market businesses thrive. We are a fast-growing firm with big ambitions - we have a clear goal to become the premium adviser to the middle market, globally. This vision touches everything we do, motivating and inspiring us to become better every day. If you are looking for a firm where you can build a future and make an impact, then RSM is the place for you.

Please note: this opportunity is for individuals who are currently not working in Internal Audit and wish to make a career change.

Reactivate your career with RSM

Are you looking for a career change that lets you keep a good work-life balance? Are you considering a change in career to do something where you can learn and grow? Perhaps you fancy a fresh challenge and the opportunity to advance your career.

We know that full-time work can sometimes conflict with commitments to friends and family. Here at RSM, we can give you a new challenge and the flexibility to achieve it.

Our internal audit team is passionate about helping its clients to improve their organisational processes. We recognise the value that experience in other industries and professions brings to understanding what makes our clients’ organisations tick.

Our team includes former teachers, solicitors, retail managers, and NHS managers to name but a few. What they have in common is a desire to make a difference to the clients they work with, and the transferable skills they need to do it.

Whether you are looking to change careers, returning to work after a career break, or are rethinking your career path after a redundancy, we would like to hear from you if you are qualified to level 3 (A Level and equivalent) or qualified to level 6 (undergraduate degree level or equivalent).

When you achieved your qualifications is not important to us – what is important are your skills, insight and enthusiasm. We offer the option to study for a professional qualification so you can start the next chapter of your story at RSM.

About You

• Do you like learning about new topics?
• Do you like to help others resolving problems?
• Can you see how things could be done more effectively?
• Do your friends come to you for advice and your opinion?
• Are you an analytical thinker, who is looking for a new career?

If the answers to any of the above is “Yes”, perhaps you are ready for a change from what you are currently doing; or maybe you are looking to return to work after having a career break? You may also be looking for a role where you can develop your skills and learning to progress? Perhaps you are looking for a role that helps organisations get better and you can see an impact of your work?

If this sounds like you, then a career in Internal Audit may be for you.

Our teams are made up of people from a wide range of backgrounds including retail, healthcare, hospitality, teaching, engineering, legal, military or a whole variety of other life experiences.

If you like learning new things, working in a team and being able to develop your skills to help our clients to improve their organisations, then this could be the role for you.

What we are looking for

You will have good people skills and be comfortable working either alone or as part of a team on assignments and eventually, dealing with clients.

Key skills include having attention to detail and the desire for continuous learning.

We realise that you won’t necessarily have studied for a relevant professional qualification. Therefore, RSM can offer training support for internal audit or team specific qualifications, if that is something you are interested in.

You will also be able to learn and develop a good knowledge of individual subjects and sector issues relevant to your work to be able to support other team members as required to ensure compliance with relevant regulation and internal audit standards.

What we do

Our work is very client focused and no two days are the same.

Our work centres on understanding the risks an organisation is facing and providing assurance on how well they manage those risks. Based on our findings, we work with our clients to identify actions to manage risk better.

We employ a host of tools and techniques to do our work and you will develop a wide range of analytical and soft skills, underpinned by a training framework as well as a mentoring programme.

We value the people that make our teams and we support all our colleagues to make their career into one that works for them as part of their lives.

We will deliver flexibility in your time. This can be hours in the day - so you are around to manage school runs or appointments. We offer job sharing, part-time hours or even condensing hours. We will work with you to identify the working pattern that suits you best.

You will be involved in the delivery of internal audit services to a wide range of clients, across the public and corporate sectors. You’ll have the opportunity to develop and progress (in line with your own aspirations) and manage junior staff and further develop your internal audit knowledge and experience.

During the first few months, you will be integrated into the team and understand the ways of working, processes and therefore start to develop a better understanding of a career within Internal Audit. This will be accompanied by the opportunity to begin studying a professional qualification (CIA).

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake assignments by conducting interviews, reviewing documentation, completing testing and recording what you have done
• Regularly communicating with clients both virtually and in person on client sites
• Writing up what you have found during your testing and preparing draft reports
• Undertake follow-up review work to see how our clients have implemented actions
• Working with the team to deliver assignments in timeframes and budgets

At first you will have close supervision whilst you learn the methodology, moving to removed supervision as you become more experienced.

Diversity and Inclusion at RSM

At RSM, we want to create a strong sense of belonging so that people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures feel they can bring their true self to work. Our clients come from all walks of life. We aim to achieve that same diversity of background, experience and perspective in our own teams, so that we can genuinely understand our client's needs. Diverse teams bring a broader range of ideas and insights to work. That's why we're working together to ensure our firm's principles and processes support a firm culture that embraces difference and strengthens inclusion.