Senior Auditor
| Posting date: | 19 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £47,145 to £51,954 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 September 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham, Bootle, Glasgow, Leeds, Newcastle and Swansea |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Government Internal Audit Agency |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 421854 |
Summary
This is an exciting time to join the Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) as a Senior Auditor in which you will be a key player in delivering high-quality audit services aligned with the Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS) in the UK Public Sector or other relevant professional standards.
You will act as a crucial point of contact for clients, delivering a portfolio of audits and working closely with stakeholders to deliver efficient and robust audit work that strengthens the Agency's client relationships and reputation.
About the Team
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, stakeholder 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 Job
You may be allocated to client specific teams, one of our specialism’s teams or our central resourcing team. This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider Civil Service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder 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. In this role, you will:
Role responsibilities will include:
• Supporting the delivery of a portfolio of audits, working on more than one assignment at once, often for a variety of clients.
• Leading the delivery of audit assignments and ensure delivery within budget and quality expectations complying with GIAA methodology and using our audit management system to deliver audits in line with our quality standards.
• Identifying and assessing key risks and explaining these to client management teams. Preparing terms of reference, setting out testing plans and undertaking detailed testing. Evaluating client frameworks for governance, risk, and control, supporting good practice within own and client organisations, and recommending improvements that support organisational objectives and capabilities.
• Obtaining, selecting and analysing data, to support results, conclusions and recommendations made. Providing and delivering clear and accurate reports that meet the requirements of our clients, and carrying out activities to ensure that agreed management actions are completed
• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement, using agency innovation, and learning. Being an effective team member, supporting wider GIAA delivery by working constructively and flexibly with colleagues to deliver appropriate outcomes.
• Managing your own time and resources effectively, taking ownership of issues that could impact the delivery of your and the wider teams’ objectives and providing solutions and options ahead of deadlines.
About You
You will be a confident, experienced auditor who will actively contribute to audit delivery in line with quality, time, and budget requirements.
Some of the Benefits our people love!
• Competitive salaries and in-year rewards
• Flexible working
• A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Discount on big brands
• Volunteering days
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free eyesight tests
• Family-friendly HR policies
• 25 days’ annual leave increasing by one day per year of service to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• Geographically based Agency
For more information about the GIAA, role, salary, benefits, who to contact and how to apply please follow the apply link.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at GIAArecruitment@GIAA.gov.uk
You will act as a crucial point of contact for clients, delivering a portfolio of audits and working closely with stakeholders to deliver efficient and robust audit work that strengthens the Agency's client relationships and reputation.
About the Team
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, stakeholder 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 Job
You may be allocated to client specific teams, one of our specialism’s teams or our central resourcing team. This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider Civil Service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder 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. In this role, you will:
Role responsibilities will include:
• Supporting the delivery of a portfolio of audits, working on more than one assignment at once, often for a variety of clients.
• Leading the delivery of audit assignments and ensure delivery within budget and quality expectations complying with GIAA methodology and using our audit management system to deliver audits in line with our quality standards.
• Identifying and assessing key risks and explaining these to client management teams. Preparing terms of reference, setting out testing plans and undertaking detailed testing. Evaluating client frameworks for governance, risk, and control, supporting good practice within own and client organisations, and recommending improvements that support organisational objectives and capabilities.
• Obtaining, selecting and analysing data, to support results, conclusions and recommendations made. Providing and delivering clear and accurate reports that meet the requirements of our clients, and carrying out activities to ensure that agreed management actions are completed
• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement, using agency innovation, and learning. Being an effective team member, supporting wider GIAA delivery by working constructively and flexibly with colleagues to deliver appropriate outcomes.
• Managing your own time and resources effectively, taking ownership of issues that could impact the delivery of your and the wider teams’ objectives and providing solutions and options ahead of deadlines.
About You
You will be a confident, experienced auditor who will actively contribute to audit delivery in line with quality, time, and budget requirements.
Some of the Benefits our people love!
• Competitive salaries and in-year rewards
• Flexible working
• A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Discount on big brands
• Volunteering days
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free eyesight tests
• Family-friendly HR policies
• 25 days’ annual leave increasing by one day per year of service to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• Geographically based Agency
For more information about the GIAA, role, salary, benefits, who to contact and how to apply please follow the apply link.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at GIAArecruitment@GIAA.gov.uk
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