DDaT Audit Manager
Government Internal Audit Agency
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 21st October 2024
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GIAA has an expectation for all colleagues to attend their local workplace for a minimum of 60% of their working week. This enables all our people to benefit from the positivity and enhanced wellbeing of spending time with colleagues and teammates and to combine this with individual working when this is most beneficial for specific activities. Workplace attendance is usually your local GIAA office location and can also include time spent attending our customers' sites. For people with a part-time or compressed hours working pattern our expectation for 60% workplace attendance would be applied on a pro-rata basis. 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 (GIAA)
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 https://www.youtube.com/embed/MS1KNqvK-as .
Job description
This role is based in the Digital, Data & Technology (DDaT) team, providing independent and impartial assurance to the Government. We are looking to recruit from a variety of backgrounds which will improve GIAA’s experience and skills base.
You will work in a flexible team to deliver DDaT assignments. Work can be highly complex and high profile, with considerable stakeholder liaison.
If you have experience and skills in helping customers to understand and manage their IT risks, along with ensuring exemplary standards of governance, control and assurance issues we would love to hear from you. This is your opportunity to join a highly respected, forward-thinking organisation that builds and maintains strategic relationships at the most senior levels across the majority of government departments. The variety and contribution of these roles is unparalleled across government.
DDaT Audit Managers in GIAA are responsible for the management and delivery of audit and assurance activity across a varied and interesting range of customers and topics, either working individually or with a small team of auditors. You will be allocated a portfolio of work around a core cluster of customers, while also having the opportunity to broaden your experience by working on new topics or with new customers. With access to high profile work, you will work alongside key decision makers, audit specialists and private sector contractors within the Agency, challenging and developing your skills as well as ensuring we meet our customers’ expectations.
DDaT Audit Managers are the key day to day contacts for our clients and their ability to build good relationships with a variety of stakeholders whilst delivering efficient and robust audit work is key to the success of the Agency’s relationship with our clients. We value all our employees and will offer you support in maintaining and building your professional career through technical training, coaching and development opportunities. In addition, you are entitled to a formidable range of benefits from a generous pension provision, embracing of flexible work patterns, diversity and security.
Key responsibilities for this role:
- Provide subject matter expertise and input to the development and implementation of audit plans for identified customers, bringing to this an understanding of the risk environment, materiality and the control framework;
- Consulting with and managing positive engagement with Directors and other senior customers to facilitate understanding, recommend control improvements, advise on the resolution of risk management challenges and influence positive outcomes;
- Developing, delivery, revision and monitoring of the key aspects of IT audit programmes in a professional and proactive manner that enhances the customer experience;
- Be an effective team member, supporting wider GIAA delivery by working constructively and flexibly with colleagues to deliver appropriate objectives;
- Manage your own time and resource effectively; proactively identify, foresee and take ownership of issues affecting delivery of your and the wider teams’ objectives and provides solutions and options ahead of deadlines;
- Provide and deliver clear and accurate reports that meet the requirements of the customers and carry out activities to ensure that agreed management actions are completed;
- Be accountable for delivery of a portfolio of IT audits, working on more than one assignment at once, possible on different clients, to budget and quality expectations, complying with GIAA methodology, using our IT audit software system;
- To scope IT audit assignments, including drafting terms of reference, testing strategies, fieldwork plans, reporting timetables and focus work on identified risks; single audit methodology and audit management software.
Person specification
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:
- Recent experience in an IT risk and control / audit environment (including external/internal audit) and identifying and assessing complex IT risks and controls;
- Be highly organised, actively monitoring audit deliverables to ensure high quality service, delivered to agreed time quality and resource constraints;
- To work with professional skill and be a trusted adviser to clients, responsible for working level relationships with key contacts;
- Be an effective communicator, possessing excellent interpersonal skills which enable you to relate to people at all levels in an organisation demonstrated by experience of working collaboratively with a wide range of business and corporate stakeholders;
- Be a team player who is able to coach and develop others, responding positively to team and departmental changes, being an ambassador for the Agency as it
develops; - Actively work with others while sharing expertise and experience, coaching juniors and peers, and helping the Agency develop its DDaT specialism;
- Be an independent thinker who can confidently express their views and make decisions and be able to stand your ground when required.
Further guidance on how to complete your statement can be found within the application form on Civil Service Jobs
Qualifications
A recognised IT qualification:
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Certified Information Security Manager
• Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
• Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT
• Member of the Chartered Institute for Information Technology
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Degree/masters qualification in IT
You need to have obtained the required qualification at the time of submitting your application. If you are waiting to sit your exams or have not yet received your results then you are not eligible to apply this time.
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- DDaT
Benefits
Benefits
- 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
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Recruitment Timeline
Closing date: 21 October 2024
Shortlisting: w/c 21 October 2024
Interviews: 04 November to 15 November 2024
This timeline is indicative and may be subject to change. We will inform you if there is a substantial change to the recruitment timeline.
If your contact details change at any time during the selection process, please ensure you update your Civil Service Jobs profile.
Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.
Eligibility Statement
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role in the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. Checks will be performed as part of pre-employment checks in line with this.
Everyone working with government assets must complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks. Additionally, individuals appointed to the Treasury group will be subject to National Security Vetting. The level of security vetting required for this role is Security Check (SC).
To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out, applicants will need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. In exceptional circumstances, a lack of residency would not be a bar to security clearance however the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case by case basis once the advert closing date has passed.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Katie Woodhouse
- Email : GIAARecruitment@GIAA.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : giaarecruitment@giaa.gov.uk
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