Professional Capability Lead (Internal Audit) - #1789211

Location

We will consider applications from people able to access our offices at the following locations:

Birmingham, Bootle, Glasgow, Leeds, Newcastle and Swansea

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.

Existing GIAA employees appointed into this new role will be allowed to remain at their current workplace location.

About The Job

Job summary

About The Government Internal Audit Agency

We are an executive agency of His Majesty’s Treasury (HM Treasury), established in April 2015 to improve the quality of internal audit provided to central government.

Most of the Agency’s people are professionally qualified internal auditors, accountants or investigators.

Many are also specialists in areas including counter fraud, project management, digital and commercial audit.

We lead both the Government Internal Audit Profession and the Government Internal Audit Function.

Our workforce brings with it a unique depth of experience gained in a wide range of government departments, related bodies and other sectors.

This enables us to offer a high-quality service based on cross-government insight and a strong understanding of our customers’ business.

In GIAA, we aim to be a great place to work and to ensure that we have the capability and capacity to make even more of a significant contribution to achieving A Brilliant Civil Service over the coming years.

Our initial focus was on becoming “a single audit practice”. We are now focused on taking GIAA to the next level so we can provide better insights and better outcomes for government.

Job Description

Audit Profession and Practice (APP) is responsible for driving consistency and quality across GIAA via the audit methodology, audit management system and quality assurance work. Audit Profession and Practice sets standards, monitors compliance against those standards and shares best practice to promote continuous improvement. It also supports development and capability for internal auditors within GIAA.

This role provides an excellent opportunity to support GIAA in enhancing its internal audit capability, through supporting and developing its people and embedding a culture of continuous improvement and professional learning and development.

The role focuses on developing professional learning and development solutions for internal auditors that add value to GIAA’s learning portfolio, responding to and reflecting the changing landscape of internal audit.

Person specification

Role Responsibilities

• Consult with stakeholders to agree professional learning and development priorities for internal auditors.
• Plan and coordinate a programme of professional learning and development solutions for internal auditors, involving external providers in the development and delivery of such training where appropriate and cost effective.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts across the Agency in different disciplines to design, develop and deliver in-house professional learning and development solutions for internal auditors.
• Review and evaluate professional learning and development solutions for internal auditors by seeking and acting upon feedback and developing management information.
• Develop, maintain and communicate Skills & Learning Frameworks for internal auditors.
• Support the Head of Audit and Professional Practice in managing GIAA’s relationship with Gartner, provider of GIAA’s online research and advisory resources for internal auditors.
• Represent APP on GIAA-wide forums and groups related to the accountabilities of the role.
  
  

Candidate Qualifications

The post-holder is required to hold either:

• a Chartered IIA qualification; or
• an equivalent Chartered Accountancy qualification (CCAB) and have experience of internal audit and a thorough understanding of internal audit methodology and the Global Internal Audit Standards.
  
  

Person specification

Required

You will be required to write a statement of suitability of up to 750 words setting out how your skills and experience meet the following criteria:

• Practical experience of delivering internal audits effectively, ideally both managing audits in addition to delivering individual audit assignments.
• Experience of designing flexible and blended learning solutions that meet the needs of a wide variety of target audiences, from those new to internal audit to senior management.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills, able to communicate accurately, clearly and concisely to a wide variety of stakeholders with differing levels of experience and knowledge and to adapt training dependent on audience.
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, able to work collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels both within the organisation and across wider government in relation to the development and delivery of training using knowledge and skills rather than the exercise of authority.
• Highly organised, able to complete multiple tasks to tight timelines and with minimal supervision to a high quality
  
  

Qualifications

The post-holder is required to hold either:

a Chartered IIA qualification; or

an equivalent Chartered Accountancy qualification (CCAB) and have experience of internal audit and a thorough understanding of internal audit methodology and the Global Internal Audit Standards.

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Internal Audit

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