Senior Auditor, GIAA

GIAA

This is an exciting time to join the Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA). Our Senior Auditors are the essential day-to-day contacts for our clients. With access to high profile work, you will work alongside key decision makers, audit specialists and private sector contractors in the Agency, challenging and developing your skills and ensuring we meet our clients’ expectations. We provide internal audit services and support for the UK government. Our clients include all ministerial departments and many non-ministerial departments, agencies and public bodies.

These roles are an ideal opportunity for career development, with opportunities for progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, enabling you to develop a broad career base gaining experience of building and maintaining strategic relationships at the most senior levels.

About The Job

In this role, you will:

• Be an effective team member, supporting wider GIAA delivery by working constructively and flexibly with colleagues to deliver appropriate outcomes.
• Manage your own time and resource effectively and efficiently; proactively identify, expect, and take ownership of issues that could impact on the delivery of your and the wider teams’ objectives and provide solutions and options ahead of deadlines.
• Provide and deliver clear and accurate reports that meet the requirements of our clients 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 for different clients, delivering to budget and quality expectations, complying with GIAA methodology, using our IT audit software system.
• 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.

About You
You will be able to demonstrate strong understanding of governance, risk management, control and assurance issues as well as being an analytical thinker who is able to plan out what needs to be done within tight deadlines. You will need to be an effective communicator with experience of collecting and providing accurate unbiased relevant information to support conclusions.

About Us
We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, and we welcome applications from candidates who wish to work flexibly, for example, part-time, term time or job share.

Benefits Of Working For The Government Internal Audit Agency

• Competitive salaries and in year rewards
• Flexible working
• Competitive contributory pension scheme with employer contributions starting from 28.97%.
• Discounts on big brands and supermarkets, online shops and on the high street.
• Paid volunteering days
• Season ticket loans/Cycle to work schemes
• Free eyesight test
• Family friendly HR policies
• 25 days annual leave, increasing one day each year to 30 days after 5 years’ service.

For more information about the GIAA, role, salary, benefits, who to contact and how to apply please follow the Apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at GIAArecruitment@GIAA.gov.uk