Delivery Manager - Assurance

We are looking for enthusiastic audit professionals (CCAB/IIA qualified) to join our successful teams to work across our Cheshire & Mersey Regional Assurance Teams.

Whilst the role is predominantly regional based, you may be required to work across the wider MIAA footprint as part of the role.

Base Location : - Chester Office CH2 IUL (This will be working across Cheshire, Wirral, Stoke & Staffordshire and North Wales Regions)

The Successful Applicant

We want driven people who think creatively about their work, embrace challenges and can resolve complex problems.

The key purpose of this role is to:

• To support the Senior Audit Managers/Regional Assurance Directors in relation to client management.


• To direct and supervise staff to deliver Assurance projects and workstreams on time, to budget and to quality standards.


• To operationally manage a portfolio of Assurance and Solutions projects including highly complex, technical, and confidential pieces of work.


• To respond to client instructions or queries covering a broad range of issues of including highly complex, technical, and confidential matters.


• To respond to staff requests for instruction, guidance, and training. Responses may be routine to highly technical and sensitive in nature., To support the Engagement Managers/Regional Assurance Directors in relation to client management. This will include, but is not limited to, drafting Audit Committee papers, and conducting internal quality assessments.


To direct and supervise staff to deliver Assurance projects and workstreams on time, to budget and to quality standards.

To operationally manage a portfolio of Assurance projects including highly complex, technical, and confidential pieces of work.

To support the Assurance Director through the 3 Regional Delivery teams to deliver and report on Assurance Assignments.

To respond to client instructions or queries covering a broad range of issues of including highly complex, technical, and confidential matters.

To respond to staff requests for instruction, guidance, and training. Responses may be routine to highly technical and sensitive in nature.


• Professional accountancy qualification (CCAB) or MIIA qualified or equivalent, Demonstrable PQE skills knowledge, experience and expertise which could be in audit (either internal or external). Can be external audit with a large accountancy practice that has included experience of auditing large organisations and management or supervisory role of junior staff. Alternatively, internal audit experience in private or public sector. Must include attendance at Audit Committee and executive director exposure.


• Must have experience of working in audit and demonstrable understanding of audit role and techniques.


• Must have experience of managing and supervising staff.


• Experience of working in NHS or other public sector organisation resulting in a good understanding of systems and processes is desirable for the post. Alternative experience in an equivalent organisation may be acceptable., You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  MIAA is an NHS Shared service, hosted by Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Established in 1990, we have grown exponentially over the years to become a leading provider of assurance services to the NHS. In recent years, our expertise has expanded to other public and third sector organisations including Local Government, Police & Fire, charities, and housing organisations.


Whilst we are proud of the range of services, we provide what is more important to us is why we do it. As a public sector not for profit organisation, we are focused on enabling our clients to deliver the best possible public service outcome.

MIAA provides internal audit services to over 50+ NHS and public sector organisations in the Northwest and beyond. We also offer clients a number of services in addition to internal audit including Solutions, Anti-Fraud, Technical Risk Assurance, Capital, Clinical Coding, Healthcare Quality Support.

MIAA's budgeted turnover is 12 million, which is demonstrative of the organisation's ambitious and strategic goals. MIAA is committed to maximising social value in all that we do - both internally, with our workforce, or externally, to maximise the positive impacts on our customers, SMEs, and the local communities where we work.

We are focused on supporting the development of health, happy and thriving communities through employing local people, supporting local SMEs, and growing the local economy through this work.


• Flexible/hybrid working


• Generous pension scheme


• Development and protected learning time


• Career progression, The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.


The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.