Senior Audit Manager (PPM Specialism)

449105 Senior Audit Manager (PPM Specialism)

• Salary: National: £73,142 - £79,550/ London £77,124 - £84,724
• 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, Bristol, Bootle, Croydon, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Reading and Swansea.

About GIAA

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is driven by its unparalleled access across government to build better insights, better outcomes for our clients. This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, partner engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government. The Agency's unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully, and continue developing professionally.

About the Role

The post holder will have a strategic leadership and delivery role within the Agency and will be responsible for delivering a high-quality, impactful audit programme within their span of control in accordance with the Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS) in the UK Public Sector or other relevant professional standards.

The post holder will lead and manage a portfolio of audit delivery, including delivering individual audit engagements from planning through to reporting, providing people management, engagement supervision and oversight to teams delivering individual engagement in a matrix.

The post holder will be an experienced, confident and strategic leader, providing portfolio direction and alignment. Adept as fostering a culture of continuous improvement, upholding quality assurance, championing innovation and driving professional development and learning for our people.

The post holder will require a deep understanding of clients' operations, key risks, and priorities whilst building strong, productive relationships at all levels and delivering challenging messages with professionalism and clarity.

The post holder will provide Programme and Project Management (PPM) specialism input and insight into the shaping of audit strategies and plans across a portfolio. Identifying key risks and engaging stakeholders with credibility and impact, the post holder will work closely with colleagues including Group Chief Internal Auditors (GCIAs).

This role will play a key role in upholding quality assurance, the Agency's reputation and strengthening the function including championing the development of a risk-orientated culture.

The post holder will drive the continuous professional development of our people including effective allocation of audit resource based on skills, capacity, and priorities, to optimise overall Agency delivery. Working with resource managers to ensure resource is deployed effectively to optimise performance and outcomes.

Role responsibilities

• Take a strategic leadership and delivery role leading and managing a portfolio of audit delivery from planning through to reporting.
• Acting as the engagement supervisor for all audits within your agreed allocation.
• You will drive the continuous professional development of our people including effective allocation of audit resource based on skills, capacity, and priorities to optimise overall Agency delivery.
• Deliver value-adding PPM audit insights that help GIAA clients identify, understand, and manage project and programme delivery risks.
• Shape and drive the implementation of an audit strategy and plan, identifying key risks, you will engage stakeholders with credibility and impact and work closely with colleagues including Group Chief Internal Auditors (GCIAs).
• Identify and share common PPM assurance and advisory issues across GIAA's client base to improve risk awareness and mitigation.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) and the National Audit Office (NAO) to share knowledge and align assurance approaches where possible.
• Grow the PPM specialism's contribution to GIAA's strategy by developing new capabilities, knowledge-sharing tools, and potential income streams.
• Have a key role in upholding quality assurance and strengthening the function, including championing the development of a risk-orientated culture.
• You will ensure timeliness of each review in line with budget and compliance with GIAA audit methodology and systems.
• Provide portfolio direction and alignment by fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and learning, ensuring audit services remain responsive to risk priorities.
• Lead the strategic management of client relationships, including regular engagement with senior internal and client management including occasional attendance at ARAC's and preparation of ARAC papers.
• Provide leadership and oversight as a People Manager and/or Engagement Manager in a matrix model for a team of auditors across multiple regions. (Specific training will be given if you are allocated a People Manager role due to the Line Management responsibilities).

About You

• You will have significant experience in effective decision making, successfully planning, managing, and delivering a portfolio of risk-based internal audits, including Programme and Project Management audits, to time, quality and budget including the ability to assess skills and resource gaps in audit service delivery.
• Leading and supporting change at a team and organisational level, adopting a continuous improvement approach which contributes to the wider corporate responsibilities of the organisations.
• Strong strategic thinking skills and an ability to interpret complex, conflicting information and make sound judgements. The ability to build and maintain strong relationships across an organisation at all levels, influencing senior stakeholders to adopt good practice internal control, risk management and governance processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to interpret complex audit judgements and deliver insight for senior and specialist audiences.
• Proven track record in successfully leading, managing and developing teams in a matrix management setting either as an engagement supervisor or people manager.

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 has an expectation for all colleagues to attend their local workplace regularly and to attend client sites for key meetings and when undertaking fieldwork.

Qualifications

All candidates will need to demonstrate full current membership of a recognised professional accountancy/audit body.

Benefits of working for us:

• Competitive salaries and in year rewards
• Flexible working
• Competitive contributory pension scheme with employer contributions starting from 28.97%.
• 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.

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