Senior Compliance Officer

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is driven by its unparalleled access across government to build ‘better insights, better outcomes’ for our clients.

This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government.

The Agency’s unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully, and continue developing professionally.

This role sits within the DVLA GIAA Compliance Officer team, delivering assurance audits to organisations that access DVLA data, including local authorities, parking enforcement organisations and financial institutions.

You will lead and oversee a varied programme of compliance audits, assessing whether customers have legitimate and evidenced reasons for accessing DVLA data in line with agreed permitted purposes. Working both independently and as part of a supportive, established team, you will build strong relationships with customer stakeholders while delivering robust, efficient audit activity across the UK. The role offers an interesting mix of compliance, assurance and stakeholder engagement, with some travel and overnight stays required

• Managing a team of circa 4 HEO Compliance Officers to deliver compliance audits for DVLA.
• Being an effective team leader, by working pro-actively, constructively and flexibly with colleagues and customers to deliver GIAA’s objectives and service commitments to DVLA;
• Managing your own and your team’s time and resources effectively and productively to ensure that DVLA demand is met, in order of priority - actively identifying, foreseeing and taking ownership of issues which may impact your delivery or that of your team; and offering solutions ahead of deadlines;
• Being accountable for delivering and managing a portfolio of audits, working on more than one assignment at once, possibly on different DVLA customers, to budget and quality expectations, complying with GIAA methodology, using our audit management software system (TeamMate+) where required;
• Being responsible for quality assurance of your team’s work to ensure delivery of clear and accurate audit reports, which meet agreed compliance audit objectives;
• Contributing to customer Audit Committee, Executive Team and Board reports with concise and accurate delivery progress data;
• Actively working with others to share expertise and experience, coaching juniors and peers, and helping the Agency develop its professional practice; and
• Ensuring that you and your team adhere to GIAA policies e.g. data protection, security, health and safety and time recording.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• 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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This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

Recruitment Timeline

• Closing date: 27 September 2026
• Shortlisting: 09 October 2026
• Interviews: w/c 19 October 2026

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. Additionally, individuals appointed to the Treasury group will be subject to National Security Vetting. The level of security vetting required for this role is Security Check (SC)

To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out, applicants will need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. In exceptional circumstances, for example if you have been working abroad on a government posting, a lack of residency would not be a bar to security clearance however the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case-by-case basis once the advert closing date has passed.

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.