Vacancy Details

We are looking to recruit an experienced, highly organised, proactive, articulate and energetic administrator with a keen eye for attention to detail to join us as a Business and Project Officer.

This is a busy and interesting role in which you will undertake a broad and varied range of administrative activities including:

• Supporting a wide range of meetings with scheduling, agenda preparation, report collation, preparing meeting minutes, notes and action logs, and tracking action completion - including the PSAA Board, the Audit Committee and Procurement Committee, internal team meetings, and project meetings


• Performing updates to our website, various information systems and documentation


• Conducting research on a range of topics and preparing reports on your findings


• Collecting, managing, analysing and reporting on information


We operate a business partnering approach so in this role you will provide vital and valued administrative support to the Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Chief Executive and their team.

You will also have the opportunity to support the delivery of a range of projects and initiatives, and carry out other appropriate duties as needed.

You will report to the Governance and Contract Manager and be a member of our small Business and Project Support team, which comprises 1x Assistant Manager CRM and Business Support, 2x Business and Project Officer, and 1x Business and Project Support Assistant.

About PSAA

Public Sector Audit Appointments Limited (PSAA) is an independent company limited by guarantee incorporated by the Local Government Association in August 2014.

We are a not-for-profit company with 21 employees and a Board of five directors.

In July 2016, the Government specified PSAA as an appointing person under the provisions of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 and the Local Audit (Appointing Person) Regulations 2015. As an appointing person PSAA is responsible for appointing auditors, setting scales of fees for eligible bodies that have chosen to opt into its national scheme, overseeing issues of auditor independence and monitoring contract compliance of the audit firms with whom we contract.

For the second appointing period 2023/24 to 2027/28, over 99% of local government bodies, such as local councils, police and fire bodies and national parks, opted to join our scheme rather than appoint their own auditor. In late 2022 we completed our very significant procurement of external audit services for the delivery of an annual audit for the next five years to over 450 local government bodies, our clients.


• 10% non-contributory pension scheme


• Annual leave entitlement of 28 days initially, rising to 30 days after three years' service and to 32 days after five years' service, plus all UK public holidays


• Flexible & agile working - you are required to work in our London office approximately one day every six weeks as as a minimum, subject to business need


• Income Protection - triggered after 18-months paid sick leave at 75% of salary until return to work or retirement, subject to a health assessment


• Life Assurance - four times salary death in service benefit


• 24/7 access to a free, confidential employee assistance programme managed by Health Assured. This service is also available for Dependants.


• We are currently consulting employees on optional additions to our reward package including matched pension contribution up to 5% of salary, buy/sell annual leave up to 5 days, private medical insurance and a health cash plan. We can confirm the reward package at interview stage.