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Senior Auditor

  • Location: Birmingham
  • Salary: up to £60,000 per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted over 2 years ago

  • Sector: Finance & Audit
  • Contact: Andrew Varty
  • Expiry Date: 14 October 2021
  • Job Ref: AV/18013

The role of Internal Audit is to provide an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve operations.

Duties and responsibilities

• Assist the Audit Manager in identifying and prioritising significant risk areas in the Group’s first line business activities, and second line risk management and regulatory framework

• Assist the Audit Manager with audit allocation process, managing the team workloads and appropriate resource

• Responsible for delivery of own audits within agreed timescales

• Identify current / potential risks and assess controls against those risks for each audit area

• Originate / develop and carry out audit tests, discuss audit findings with local and senior management; complete peer review of audit files as directed by Audit Manager

• Produce high quality internal audit reports for review by the Audit Manager

• Follow up to evidence that actions agreed in Internal Audit reports have been implemented, or to assess progress made towards achieving the action agreed to date

Skills

• Ability to identify and assess risks and challenge processes and procedures in a constructive and effective manner and offer recommendations to negate/minimise the risks

• Ability to analyse and critically evaluate data

• Demonstrate effective challenging, listening, fact finding and recording skills

• Ability to communicate effectively and confidently both in writing and verbally at all levels, challenging management, exercising diplomacy when appropriate

• Produce factually accurate draft audit reports

• Determine resources, and plan work logically to complete a task effectively

• Use interactive skills to have an impact and be effective at meetings

• Develop and maintain good working relationships with business areas

• Demonstrate a pro-active, self-motivated and professional approach with a commitment to learn new skills and grasp concepts quickly, such as the ability to learn and interpret appropriate practices, policies and regulatory requirements

• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team

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