Senior Auditor

We will consider applications from people able to access the following offices: Birmingham, Blackpool, Bootle, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Darlington, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Norwich, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Swindon and York. Hybrid Working is available to GIAA colleagues. This means a combination of office working and working from home. This includes time spent in our GIAA office locations and can also include any time spent attending our customers’ sites. GIAA colleagues are expected to work in an office location for two days a week on average (40%). Naturally, this expectation will be applied on a pro-rata basis for people who have a part-time or compressed hours working pattern. We are a customer-facing and a social organisation. Interacting in person with our customers and with one another benefits both our work and our wellbeing. Office working is not restricted to the office nearest to your home. Hybrid Working is an enabler so we encourage colleagues to manage their own office working arrangements, choosing the most appropriate office location for your needs, which may well be your customer’s office. Relocation costs will not be reimbursed Existing GIAA employees will be allowed to remain in their current location

About Government Internal Audit Agency

We are an executive agency of His 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.

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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 customers’ expectations.

Your ability to build good relationships with a variety of stakeholders whilst delivering efficient, robust audit work is fundamental 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.

Audit response team

For roles in our audit Response Team (ART), you will work to deliver a portfolio of audits across a number of our customers, collaborating closely with our customer teams. As a member of our ART team, you will also have access to dedicated, bespoke development programmes to support you to get up to speed, and you’ll work closely with all our high-performing and highly supportive teams where we you will have the opportunity to expand and enrich your skills. 

Customer facing team

For our customer facing roles you will work closely with a single customer developing a detailed and deep understanding of your customer’s activity, learning about their business. Identifying key stakeholders and building effective and productive relationships are also vital aspects for these roles.

Whichever pathway you choose, 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.

The potential variety and contribution made through these roles across government departments is unparalleled.

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 provides solutions and options ahead of deadlines.
• Provide and deliver clear and accurate reports that meet the requirements of our 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 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.

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• To apply your professional knowledge and expertise to meet the ‘Responsibilities’ outlined in this application pack.
• To be a trusted adviser for our customers, holding responsibility for working level relationships with our customers.
• Actively work with others, sharing expertise and experience, coaching juniors and peers and helping the Agency develop its professional practice.
• Look to continuously improve your own development and performance and that of the wider team, participating in training and broader corporate activities as required.
• Respond positively to team and departmental changes, being an ambassador for the Agency as it develops.
• Be highly organised, actively monitoring audit deliverables to ensure high quality services are delivered to agreed time scales, of excellent quality and meet resource constraints.
• Be a team player, able to coach and develop others.

Experience is as valuable as qualifications for these roles.

To be eligible to apply you will need to demonstrate that you are:

1. A part or fully qualified auditor or accountant

2. Able to demonstrate substantial experience in an audit setting or a related profession or discipline such as inspection, quality assurance, governance, risk management, compliance.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Internal Audit

Alongside your salary of £44,900, Government Internal Audit Agency contributes
£12,123 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries and in-year rewards
• Flexible working
• A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Discount on big brands
• Volunteering days
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free eyesight tests
• Family-friendly HR policies
• 25 days’ annual leave increasing by one day per year of service to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• Geographically based Agency

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Job contact :

• Name : Katie Woodhouse
• Email : GIAARecruitment@GIAA.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : giaarecruitment@giaa.gov.uk