Audit Manager

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Other

  Deliver excellent customer service to our internal and external customers, helping us to maintain the customer service excellence standard

• Other

  Ability to travel extensively between organisations and sites for meetings

• Experience

  Extensive experience of internal audit, public sector audit and/or NHS experience.

• Experience

  Audit Management Experience including management of junior staff.

• Experience

  Experience of auditing across a range of different clients.

• Experience

  Experience of staff training.

• Experience

  Producing complex audit reports including making recommendations for enhancements to procedure and controls.

• Experience

  Advanced specialised knowledge and experience of internal audit and risk management.

• Experience

  A proven track record of dealing with complicated situations and the delivery of challenging objectives.

• Experience

  Knowledge of various contract forms e.g. NEC, JCT, ICE, MIM and their application.

• Experience

  Experience of working with NHS Infrastructure and Investment requirements through all stages of project/programme development

• Experience

  Presentation of complex and potentially sensitive information where management are resistant to findings.

• Skills and Attributes

  Ability to plan, control and carry out audit assignments

• Skills and Attributes

  Production of complex audit plans and assignment briefs

• Skills and Attributes

  Ability to identify systems weaknesses and to use initiative/internal control knowledge to provide management with practical solutions

• Skills and Attributes

  Ability to work to professional standards under circumstances of stress/pressure

• Skills and Attributes

  Excellent report writing skills supervisory and communication skills

• Skills and Attributes

  Excellent IT software and keyboard skills

• Skills and Attributes

  Excellent persuasion/negotiation skills

• Skills and Attributes

  Highly developed analytical, interpretational and comparative skills capable of dealing with highly complex and sensitive information

• Skills and Attributes

  Ability to work autonomously and equally effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team

• Skills and Attributes

  Demonstrable ability to work on multiple complex tasks simultaneously and produce high quality work within tight deadlines and within resource constraints

• Skills and Attributes

  IT literate with practical computer application skills covering Microsoft products including Excel and Word

• Skills and Attributes

  Demonstrable project management skills including work planning, organisation and prioritisation

• Skills and Attributes

  Ability to think innovatively and develop new ways of working, continuously striving to improve systems and performance

• Skills and Attributes

  Ability to communicate with all staff groups and have good presentational, interviewing and interpersonal skills

• Skills and Attributes

  Highly committed and self-motivated, with high professional standards

• Skills and Attributes

  Effective team building skills

• Skills and Attributes

  Ability to influence key stakeholders

• Skills and Attributes

  Possess strategic vision

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  Emotionally resilient and able to respond to difficult circumstances

• Skills and Attributes

  Ability to work under pressure and under own initiative

• Skills and Attributes

  Ability to plan and prioritise workload for yourself and your team

• Skills and Attributes

  Need for intense concentration over a sustained period of time when multi-tasking

• Skills and Attributes

  Ability to work flexibly

• Skills and Attributes

  Ability to interact with patients and the general public

• Qualifications and Knowledge

  Relevant professional qualification (CCAB qualified accountant or MIIA qualified auditor) with post qualification experience or equivalent knowledge and competence.

• Qualifications and Knowledge

  Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development

• Qualifications and Knowledge

  Highly specialist knowledge of: a) Public Sector Internal Audit Standards b) Risk Management and Assurance Frameworks c) Corporate Governance d) Controls Assurance e) Control Frameworks f) Stewardship & Probity g) Healthcare Standards