Senior IT Auditor

Your new role

As a Senior IT Auditor, you will deliver high quality audits from planning to completion across all areas of IT. This role will help strengthen the company’s risk management, internal control and governance arrangements, with the overall results incorporated into the annual assurance statement. Reporting into the IT Audit Manager, you will be responsible for managing your day-to-day duties to ensure you meet deadlines and audit milestones.

You will have excellent communication and collaboration skills as you meet with, and present to, all levels of Digital Services (formerly known as the IT Directorate) up to and including the Executive Director, gathering information and documentation to complete successful audits.

You can be based in one of our UK office’s and we have a flexible hybrid working approach, meaning the role will be a combination of office/home working. You will be required to attend the office around 2 days per week.

This role also has the potential to be offered on a part-time or job share basis and has flexibility to ensure you have a great work-life balance!

Travel to other National Highways and supplier premises with overnight stays as necessary.

What you’ll be leading on

Leading and delivering the planning and execution of high-quality individual IT audits through planning, fieldwork and reporting stages that meet quality and professional standards.
Work with senior management to agree any findings and management actions and report your results to the auditees.
Providing independent, objective, and practical support and advice to management and clients on risk management, internal control, and governance arrangements.
Managing client relations and expectations with staff and managers at all levels.
Contributing to the development of audit and assurance policies, practices, and plans, as well as the overall management of the division, to ensure that it continues to produce high quality work that meets the organisation’s needs.

To be successful you’ll need

CISA or equivalent professional qualification
Knowledge and experience of IT audit, including COBIT/ITIL, project development (Agile, Waterfall, MSP/PRINCE2), IT vendor management, ERP audit, IT risk and security.
Experience supporting the development of audit strategies and plans, and proven demonstrable experience undertaking and delivering audits in a timely and quality manner.
Experience of establishing and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, using your excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence where necessary.
Ability to manage own workload, using own initiative, demonstrating strong planning and organisational skills.
Experience in writing and managing reports for a variety of stakeholders including the board and executive is essential.

A bit about us

There’s never been a better time to join our Finance & Business Services (FBS) team.

Delivery is a huge collective exercise, with collaboration between Finance and Business Services – FBS – and every other part of the business. Getting it right means success for us all. Our remit in FBS is very broad – and there is a lot to do.

Want to know more?

For a copy of the role profile please email hrhighwaysengland@mailgc.cx.ukg.oraclecloud.com quoting reference #5138

ABOUT US

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are

Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

Right to work check
3 year employment history references
DBS criminal record check
Social media and adverse journalism check
Driving licence check (if applicable)
Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)

And finally

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