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.

Job description

Senior Internal Audit Managers at Grade 6 are integral to the leadership of the Agency and have a role in and beyond delivery of audit services to support the ongoing development of our services, people and customer approach. 

You will both deliver and lead assignments and customer liaison for our work with medium sized customers and support Group Chief Internal Auditors deliver services for our largest customer departments.  

You will have responsibility for engaging with other audit teams across the Agency, ensuring resources are fully deployed, as well as maintaining up to date resource scheduling within the team. 

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. 

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. 

We currently have vacancies within our Department for Transport (DfT), Centre of Government (CoG) and Ministry of Defence (MOD) teams. We will also be holding a Reserve List for 6 months to appoint to other teams based in London.

Senior Audit Manager Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver very high risk or complex audit assignments.
• Engage effectively with senior stakeholders to support the identification and management of key risks and to promote effective governance, risk management, control and assurance arrangements.
• Deliver Audit Plans in line with quality, time scale and budget requirements to support robust assurance opinions and other agreed stakeholder requirements.
• Deliver robust, evidence-based, independent assurance opinions for our customers and Audit Committees in accordance with the agreed timetables. Support the GCIA in providing an opinion on the system of internal control.
• Lead continuous improvement activities to improve audit practices, products and customer service.
• Ensure the whole team are compliant with professional standards and compliance with GIAA’s new single audit methodology and audit management software
• Lead people to manage, recognise and reward good performance, promote personal and professional development, nurture and manage talent.
• Act promptly on feedback and issues.
• Promote equality and diversity.
• Develop deep understanding of the customer through building relationships with key stakeholders in order to provide high quality analysis and insight.

Person specification

You will be required to write a statement of suitability of up to 1000 words setting out how your skills and experience meet the following criteria:

• Experience of developing and delivering a risk-based Internal Audit assurance consultancy programme, including through others, with sound judgment in responding quickly to fast moving priorities.
• The ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with senior management and the Audit and Risk Committee (ARC), both in terms of client engagement
  and ensuring the service is operating to appropriate professional standards that meet client and ARC needs.
• Establishing relationships with and taking account of the work of other assurance providers to ensure maximum value and minimum overlap in providing assurance.
• The ability to assess skills and resources gaps in the delivery of the audit service, developing mechanisms to overcome this.
• The ability to influence a diverse senior stakeholder community to develop effective governance, risk management and internal control arrangements.
• Demonstrate resilience and tact in the face of challenge from senior staff, including negotiation to overcome such situations.
• Experience in reviewing complex programmes and be able to demonstrate sound commercial acumen.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £67,173, Government Internal Audit Agency contributes £18,136 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 Behaviours and Experience.

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.

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

Security

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.