About the job

Job summary

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. https://www.youtube.com/embed/MS1KNqvK-as 

Job description

• Provide professional leadership and supervision to all trainees, with the ability to share insight, provide support and pastoral care and support our trainees throughout their learner journey.  
• Work closely with GCIAs and other senior operational managers to ensure that individual trainees consistently undertake work in accordance with and appropriate to development needs through the learner journey.
• Work closely with Senior Leadership Teams and the Resource Forum on strategic and operational workforce planning to establish existing and future workforce numbers, skills requirements and organisation structures.
• Act as a senior voice at the Resource Forum to determine trainee rotational placements based on their development needs and experience to ensure effective progress through their learner journey.
• Collect and analyse data, for example, Return on Investment, to inform intelligent evidence-based decisions for improvement and amendment to future schemes.
• In collaboration with the People team input to the management of the budget in respect of trainees ensuring a clear annual plan is in place for learning, development and CPD to maximise value for money and return on investment.
• Understand and collate the demand for trainees based on chargeable activity in collaboration with People and Finance team colleagues and ensure translation into an agency recruitment and development plan.
• Report to People Committee on the progress of our trainees and recommendations required through a professional lens.
• Work with wider government and other Internal Audit functions to ensure best practice is incorporated into GIAA development programmes.
• Work in collaboration with the People team on the creation, support, and monitoring of trainee skills frameworks, learning journeys and talent pipelines.
• In collaboration with the People team ensure the development and maintenance of relevant strategy, policies and procedures.
• In conjunction with the People team, build and maintain positive working relationships with external training providers, the professional accountancy and internal audit institutes, to ensure that the training, development and CPD offering for GIAA trainees is relevant.
• Act as integral support for ongoing trainee and entry pathways into the Agency supporting strategic planning by bringing insights from the wider Internal Audit landscape and offer of learning pathways.
• Provide support for people (matrix) managers in developing their trainees, including action learning sets, guidance and webinars to build skills, implement people policies effectively and help team members achieve their full potential. 

Person specification

• Demonstrable internal audit leadership experience and strong understanding of latest internal audit approaches.
• Understanding of internal audit qualification pathways and professional standards.
• Experience of managing ‘early careers’ and/or coaching and mentoring experience.
• Ability to make strong and influential relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, influencing business outcomes and decisions.
• Ability to analyse and interpret data to create and present evidence-based insight and recommendations.
• Identifying and applying actions to proactively mitigate people related risks around decision making or implementation.
• Ability to use a range of communication styles and approaches in different situations or with different audiences, including adopting a coaching style where appropriate.

Desirable:

• Experience of managing or developing trainees.
• Experience of external partnerships working, particularly within the education sector.
• Experience of supporting strategic and operational workforce planning.

Desirable Criteria - this will only be assessed at sift stage in the event of a strong field of candidates

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £53,661, Government Internal Audit Agency contributes £14,448 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.As part of our pre-employment security checks, if you are invited to interview and are not a current GIAA member of staff, you will need to bring:
• Proof of identity, e.g. your passport or driver’s license. Documents must be in date and valid.
• Proof of address, e.g. a utility bill or bank statement issued within the past 3 months
• Proof of your National Insurance (NI) number, e.g. letter from DWP confirming your NI number, or P60
• If you do not bring a UK or EU passport, you will need to bring other documentation of your right to work in the UK, e.g. your visa, biometric residence permit or birth certificate.

Further details regarding acceptable documents will be provided in the invitation to interview.

Please let us know if your contact details change at any time during the selection process.

Eligibility Statement:

Individuals appointed to the Treasury Group will be subject to National Security Vetting. To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out applicants will normally need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. A lack of UK residency in itself is not always a bar to security clearance but the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case by case basis using all information that can be obtained following a successful application.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.