Job Details
The Lead Auditor will plan and deliver audit work, assignments, and investigations with a particular focus on complex, technical or sensitive issues.
Through their understanding of the business, the role holder’s work responds effectively to key risks, provides confidence and assurance where appropriate and identifies opportunities for improvement in the systems of governance, risk management or internal control.
Improvement is achieved through sound planning and delivery of work, understanding and evaluation of risks, effective communication, and persuasion.
The key requirements of the role include:
Through active engagement with clients and awareness of the business ensure audit work is focused and prioritised to address key risks. Focused primarily within a portfolio area but with flexibility and credibility to be able to work across a range of auditable areas with a broader appreciation of the context of wider organisational risk.
Support the Audit and Assurance Manager to develop and implement effective and appropriate audit and counter fraud plans that address key risks for an assigned area of Council activities.
Support the Audit and Assurance Manager to develop and implement effective and appropriate audit and counter fraud strategies and approaches to drive continuous improvement and quality of service to clients.
Undertake audits, investigations and assignments of a complex, critical and/or sensitive nature to achieve improvement in the systems of governance, risk management and internal control.
As part of the audit team, support auditors in delivering routine and more complex audit assignments to ensure that quality standards and deadlines are being achieved
Prioritise own workload to ensure assignments are progressed promptly and without undue delay, to quality and performance standards and that an effective assurance opinion is provided.
Persuade and drive service improvements through effective communication of the findings, risks and outcomes of audit work including reports to senior managers, stakeholders and Directorate Leadership teams
Pay – £37 umbrella pay
