DDaT Senior Auditor

About 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., 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 Senior Auditors in GIAA are responsible for the 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 Senior Auditors 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., + 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, possibly 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.
Candidate Qualifications
Candidates must meet at least one of the following criteria:
Have extensive and relevant IT audit experience.
Or
Hold at least one of the following (or equivalent) recognised IT qualifications.
+ 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
Or
Degree/masters qualification in IT
Or
Be able to demonstrate full current membership of a recognized professional accountancy/audit body below:
Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors UK & Ireland
You must hold the chartered auditor/CMIIA designation or the MIIA designation where you qualified under the previous exam route and did not apply to make this chartered. If you have passed all of the CMIIA/MIIA exams but do not hold the designation, you are not eligible to apply.
Successful candidates not yet in possession of a recognized IT qualification will be expected to commit to booking and taking the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) within 12 months of commencing their employment., 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. Please refer to the Candidate FAQ document attached to the advert for more information.
Everyone working with government assets must complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks.
Please read the Vetting Charter for information on what to expect during the vetting process and what will be expected from you. Many areas of your life may be explored during your vetting journey, and it is important that every individual, regardless of their background and experiences, should feel comfortable going through this personal process, whilst having confidence that it is fair, proportionate, and inclusive.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment., + UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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The role on offer is an IT audit role but candidates who hold a relevant IT qualification will be considered if they have recent experience in audit., 1. Recent experience in an IT risk and control / audit environment (including external/internal audit) and identifying and assessing complex IT risks and controls;
2. Be highly organised, actively monitoring audit deliverables to ensure high quality service, delivered to agreed time quality and resource constraints;
3. To work with professional skill and be a trusted adviser to clients, responsible for working level relationships with key contacts;
4. 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;
5. 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;
6. Actively work with others while sharing expertise and experience, coaching juniors and peers, and helping the Agency develop its professional practice;
7. 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

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.
Please note, relocation costs will not be reimbursed with this appointment., Alongside your salary of £47,145, Government Internal Audit Agency contributes £13,657 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides., + 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