Audit and Assurance Manager
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £57,204 i £68,558 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £57,204 - £63,953 (National) £62,988 - £68,558 (London) |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 26 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | SW1A 2HQ |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 421964/6 |
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We support the government workforce with the right skills and capability. We are working with leaders to get the right people in the right jobs, with the right skills and continuous learning to excel in their roles.
We provide leadership, and in turn, create leaders with exceptional line management capability across departments, influencing partners in the wider public sector and beyond. This involves getting our retention and reward strategy right, to nurture specific skills, and create pride and resilience in our workforce.
Our role is also to provide system leadership across central government in pulling together back-office services. Collectively, we help support the Cabinet Office’s priority to drive efficiencies, and reforms that will make government work better, to ultimately provide a better service to the public.
The Government People Group exists to work with departments, professions, and functions to build a modern, effective Civil Service.
We support the government workforce with the right skills and capability. We are working with leaders to get the right people in the right jobs, with the right skills and continuous learning to excel in their roles.
We provide leadership, and in turn, create leaders with exceptional line management capability across departments, influencing partners in the wider public sector and beyond. This involves getting our retention and reward strategy right, to nurture specific skills, and create pride and resilience in our workforce.
Our role is also to provide system leadership across central government in pulling together back-office services. Collectively, we help support the Cabinet Office’s priority to drive efficiencies, and reforms that will make government work better, to ultimately provide a better service to the public.
The role holder will be based within the Service Delivery team which sits under the Shared Services Strategy Directorate within the Government People Group (GPG).
The role of the Service Delivery team is to work with various Government departments and our outsourced Shared Service Provider (SSCL) to deliver ‘business as usual’ services, process improvements, audit and assurance and to support the wider Shared Service Strategy for Government through sharing knowledge and expertise.
SSCL delivers shared services to a number of key Government departments including Cabinet Office, Defra Group, Department for Work and Pensions, Home Office and Ministry of Justice. The Service Delivery team oversees the delivery of services by SSCL in its role as Framework Authority, supporting 15 public sector organisations and more than 265,000 employees through the departmental contracts with SSCL. This is a gold-tier framework which departments spend millions of pounds on each year.
The Audit & Assurance Manager role is an integral part of the ongoing management of the Shared Services Framework Agreement. This role is responsible for managing the Annual Framework Authority Audit Programme which covers the Shared Service Provider (SSCL). This role requires internal audit experience and involves extensive engagement, negotiation and collaboration across a wide range of senior stakeholders including SSCL, Customer Departments, outsourced audit partners (the Government Internal Audit Agency and PricewaterhouseCoopers ) and the National Audit Office (NAO).
- Seeking assurance that SSCL operates and maintains a robust control environment in respect of the cross government SSCL contract (“Framework Agreement”) and providing this assurance to ISSC2 Departments.
- Designing and developing the risk-based Framework Authority Annual Audit Plan which covers our Shared Service provider (SSCL) and producing the detailed audit scopes. This requires extensive engagement, negotiation and collaboration with internal GPG Subject Matter Experts, Departments, SSCL (and their audit provider, PwC), and the Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA).
- Presenting to and securing approval of the Audit Plan from senior management (Grade 6 to Director General) at the Customer Board (the most senior Governance board for the gold tier ISSC2 contract).
- Monitoring and driving timely delivery of the annual Framework Authority Audit Plan by the outsourced audit providers and negotiating, agreeing and monitoring critical milestones throughout the year.
- Reporting progress against the audit programme in line with the annual timeline of audit delivery, and managing recovery plans, where required.
- Reviewing, challenging and providing feedback on outsourced auditor draft reports ensuring that reports are completed to the required quality standards.
- Chairing the bi-monthly Audit & Assurance Sub-Committee, which is attended by representatives from all ISSC2 Departments, SSCL and GIAA. The role requires producing the agenda, leading discussions, and driving engagement and decision making at the forum.
- Determining and agreeing issues for escalation and subsequently presenting both verbally and in writing those issues to senior governance boards for resolution.
- Producing and presenting comprehensive written and verbal audit updates to the monthly Performance Board and bi-monthly Customer Board.
- Leading and coordinating across Departments and the National Audit Office (NAO) the annual review of SSCL’s ISAE 3402 controls matrix to ensure design effectiveness of controls in place within SSCL.
- Producing the detailed Annual Letter of Assurance which is issued on behalf of the GPG Director to all ISSC2 Departmental Accounting Officers. This requires analysis of all audit outputs throughout the year to conclude on the governance, risk management and internal control environment within SSCL.
- Monitoring and reviewing the Audit Recommendation Tracker on a monthly basis; obtaining action owner updates, driving progress, and analysing supporting evidence to inform closure.
- Maintaining Continuing Professional Education (CPE) and professional membership through active participation in relevant internal and external learning and development opportunities. Driving continuous improvement of the audit and assurance function and evolving to align to audit best practices.
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