Audit Manager Commercial Specialism

We will consider applications from people able to access the following offices: Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Leeds, London, Newcastle, Sheffield & Swansea 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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You will lead a team which may vary in size over time, with responsibility for a range of commercially related audits and assignments. Work can be highly complex and high profile, with considerable stakeholder liaison.

GIAA employs Audit Managers to lead assignments and customer liaison for our work with medium and small sized customers, and to support Senior Audit Manager and Group Chief Internal Auditors to deliver services in our larger departments.  Audit managers are integral to the leadership of the Agency and have a role beyond delivery of audit services to support the ongoing development of our services, staff, and customer approach.

Our Audit Managers use their expertise and experience to deliver value to the Agency and customers.  There are clear opportunities for progression within the Agency and the wider civil service for candidates with the right skills and approach.

With access to high profile work, you will work alongside key decision makers, other audit specialists and private sector contractors within the Agency, challenging and developing your skills as well as ensuring we meet our customer expectations.

This is an opportunity to join a highly respected, forward-thinking organisation that builds and maintains strategic relationships at the most senior levels across the majority of government departments. The variety and contribution of these roles is unparalleled across government.

We offer support in maintaining and building your professional career through technical training, coaching and development opportunities.

You are entitled to a formidable range of benefits from generous pension provision, embracing of flexible work patterns, diversity, and security.

• Provide input into the development and implementation of audit plans for identified clients, bringing to this a specific understanding of the commercial risk environment, materiality, and the control framework.
• Provide oversight of the way in which audit methodology, risk assessments, plans and working practices are delivered in line with GIAA methodology; this will involve liaison with stakeholders, and critical appraisal of audit team output, team coaching and supervision, promoting common standards and consistency, and alignment of working practices.
• Act as a member of the Senior Team supporting a Group Chief Internal Auditor; and play an active part in the delivery of corporate objectives and develop and grow the Agency.
• Within own audits, be accountable for compliance with professional standards and compliance with GIAA’s new single audit methodology and audit management software
• Take account of key requirements and practices when planning and prioritising work and ensure that the delivery of commercial audit plans meets management and stakeholder expectations i.e., timeframes, budgets, quality.
• Show judgment when potential commercial risk exposure seems significant and escalate matters through the appropriate management/customer channels – this may involve liaison with other specialists within the Agency or with outside advisers.
• Engage with our commercial strategic partners using the GIAA framework and obtain the best VFM for audit work
• Be accountable for the performance of the team (including work delivered by private sector firms performing co-sourced audits) in meeting agreed commercial audit plans, objectives, and targets, as well as the resulting provision of audit assurance to the Accounting Officer and/or Partner Organisations

Candidates will need to demonstrate full current membership of a recognised professional accountancy/audit body below:

• Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors UK & Ireland

You must hold the chartered auditor/CMIIA designation or the MIIA designation where you qualified under the previous exam route and did not apply to make this chartered. If you have passed all the CMIIA/MIIA exams but do not hold the designation, you are not eligible to apply.

No other level of internal audit qualifications meets the requirements for this post.

• Other Institutes of Internal Auditors that are part of IIA Global

If you studied with the Institute of Internal Auditors in another country, you must hold the equivalent of the MIIA designation. You should verify this with the IIA UK & Ireland prior to submitting your application, by e-mailing membership@iia.org.uk. (If invited to interview you will be asked to provide us with the IIA response and the designation certificate you hold, as your evidence of meeting the qualification criteria for this post)

OR

• Accountancy

Fully Qualified, current member of one of the five CCAB bodies (ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS and Chartered Accountants Ireland) or CIMA.

PLUS, demonstrable commercial skills either operating in a commercial environment or in delivering commercially themed/related audit assignment

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

• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership
• Working Together
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing

Alongside your salary of £53,661, Government Internal Audit Agency contributes
£14,488 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