Senior Auditor

Company:  GOVERNMENT INTERNAL AUDIT AGENCY
Location: Blackpool
Closing Date: 03/11/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
  • Salary: London: £48,400 - £55,974 / National: £44,900 - £49,480
  • Contract Type: Permanent
  • Working Pattern: This post is available on a full time, part time or job share basis, and flexible working hours can be accommodated.
  • Location: We will consider applications from people able to access the following offices: Birmingham, Blackpool, Bootle, Bristol, Corsham, Leeds, Lichfield, London, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Portsmouth and Salisbury. We also have roles available in the following locations for colleagues appointed to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) team only: Boscombe Down, Bristol (Abbey Wood), Corsham, Lichfield, London and Portsmouth

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is 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. This is an exciting time to join us! The introduction of our Audit Response Team, alongside our embedded customer facing teams means we can elevate our impact across UK central government. We are recruiting a number of roles, focussing mainly on our Audit Response Team.

About the Team

For roles in our Audit Response Team, you will work to deliver a portfolio of audits across several of our customers, collaborating closely with our customer teams. As a member of this team you will 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 supportive teams where you will have the opportunity to expand and enrich your skills.

Key Accountabilities

In these roles, 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 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.

About You

We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate a strong understanding of governance, risk management, control and assurance issues. You will be a strong, analytical thinker and problem solver with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Candidates must be at the least part qualified in internal audit or accountancy and hold membership of a relevant professional body.

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.

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 three days a week on average (60%). Naturally, this expectation will be applied on a pro-rata basis for people who have a part-time or compressed hours working pattern.

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 26.6%.
  • Discounts on big brands and supermarkets, online shops and on the high street.
  • Paid volunteering days
  • Season ticket loans/Cycle to work scheme
  • 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

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