Senior Audit Manager, Digital, Data and Technology Specialism

Senior Audit Manager, Digital, Data and Technology 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 your 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 engagements in a matrix model. The post holder will require a deep understanding of your 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 DDaT specialism input and insight into the shaping of audit strategies and plans across a portfolio. You will identify key risks and engage stakeholders with credibility and impact, working 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 be an experienced, confident and strategic leader, providing portfolio direction and alignment. Adept at fostering a culture of continuous improvement, upholding quality assurance, championing innovation and driving professional development and learning for our people.

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. You will work with resource managers to ensure resource is deployed effectively to optimise performance and outcomes.

Role responsibilities:

• Ensure that the work of the DDaT audit specialism produces value-adding insights which enable GIAA's clients to identify and effectively manage their IT risks.
• Identify common issues arising from DDaT assurance and advisory activity and sharing these across GIAA's client base to facilitate improved risk awareness and mitigation.
• Develop and maintaining effective working relationships with the Central Digital and Data Office, Government Security Group, and other governmental bodies responsible for DDaT functional leadership, ensuring alignment of the DDaT specialism's work with applicable functional frameworks.
• Identify and develop means by which the DDaT specialism might further contribute to the implementation of GIAA's strategy by generating new lines of business and income streams.
• Lead the creation of knowledge sharing tools and products to enable upskilling and consistent delivery of DDaT assurance activity across GIAA, including by colleagues who do not currently sit within the DDaT specialism.
• 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
• 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).
• 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 you will foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and learning, ensuring audit services remain responsive to risk priorities.
• 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).
• Provide leadership around the provision of assurance regarding the implementation of digital / technical programmes.
• Provide knowledge and understanding of emerging tech and related risks (both technical and people impact/adoption based).
• Experience of delivering Digital, Data or Technology change initiatives would be an advantage.

About You:

• You will have significant experience in effective decision making, successfully planning, managing, and delivering a portfolio of risk-based DDaT internal 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.

Qualifications

Candidates must hold at least one of the following (or equivalent):

• Chartered Member of The Institute of Internal Auditors UK & Ireland; or
• An equivalent professional qualification in Accountancy - current full member of one of five CCAB bodies (ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS, Chartered Accountants Ireland), or CIMA;

OR A recognised IT qualification:

• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Certified Information Security Manager
• Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
• Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT
• Member of the Chartered Institute for Information Technology

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.

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

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