Senior Internal Auditor

An exciting opportunity has arisen at HM Land Registry (HMLR) for a Senior Internal Auditor to join our Finance and Business Services directorate. We are looking for a confident, experienced Senior Internal Auditor to play a vital role in the delivery of risk based assurance services to support HMLR’s ambition. You will support the Head of Internal Audit and your Senior Internal Audit Manager in delivering the organisation’s internal audit services, providing an assurance to the Chief Executive and Audit and Risk Committee on the effectiveness of the organisation’s governance, risk management and control frameworks.

This role will provide you with an opportunity to undertake high profile audits, and a variety of work across all parts of the organisation and contact with senior management.

You will work alongside other experienced Senior Internal Auditors, from a range of sectors and audit backgrounds, in a friendly and supportive team. There is a strong commitment to CPE and wider professional development. Your role will include:

• Conducting a range of high-profile audit assignments, in line with Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS) as directed by the Head of Internal Audit, Senior Internal Audit Manager and the Audit and Risk Committee. Reviewing and reporting on HMLR’s governance, risk management and control frameworks (including operational and developing activities) and contributing to insight-driven improvements.
• Managing your own time to deliver allocated audit engagements within agreed service levels. This will include scoping the audit activity through to feeding back the conclusions and drafting final audit reports for approval and distribution to corporate stakeholders at all levels across HMLR and the Audit and Risk Committee.
• Supporting managers throughout the organisation by responding to request for advice or help on any risk or control issues or special investigation (through membership of Boards, Panels and/or Committees) or undertaking consultancy reviews.
• Assisting the Head of Internal Audit and Senior Internal Audit Manager in the management and development of the internal audit service, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, including development of strategy, policy and procedures.
• Keeping abreast of both technical and professional developments, including maintaining Continuing professional education (CPE) requirements.

Candidates will need to demonstrate experience within the discipline of the professional audit/accountancy body detailed below, and have achieved at least one of the following:

Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (UK & Ireland) or overseas equivalent

• CMIIA designation (or the MIIA designation where you qualified under the previous exam route and did not apply to make this chartered).

You must hold the equivalent of the MIIA designation, if you studied overseas, you should verify this with the CIIA UK & Ireland prior to submitting your application.

Or

• Internal Audit part qualified – have passed at least CIA 1, CIA 2 and CIA 3 (or PIIA under the pre-chartered route).

Or

Accountancy

• Fully or part qualified through CCAB bodies or UK overseas equivalent.

ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS and Chartered Accountants Ireland, CIMA – at least two-thirds of required exam passes

ICAEW – passes in both the Certificate and Professional levels

You need to have obtained the required qualification at the time of submitting your application. If you are waiting to sit your exams or have not yet received your results, you are not currently eligible to apply. Please note a degree in any finance, accountancy or audit discipline does not meet qualification requirements as these do not give membership to a professional body.

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 Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

To apply, you will need to complete the short application form and copy and paste your CV onto the online application form detailing your qualifications and work history including experience. You will also need to include your level and type of qualification.

You will need to complete a personal statement, of no more than 750 words, to demonstrate your experience with the below:

• Significant recent internal audit experience demonstrating strong audit and assurance knowledge and expertise in line with GIAS; from scoping audit assignments, drafting terms of reference and testing strategies through to reporting findings, timely report delivery and following up on management actions.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, demonstrating ability to communicate key messages clearly and succinctly to stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Organised and able to manage your own time and resource effectively and efficiently; proactively identify, expect and take ownership of issues that could impact on delivery of your and the wider teams’ objectives and provide options or solutions ahead of deadlines.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a virtual interview and complete a scenario based exercise. Further details will be provided on invitation to interview.

The blended interview will assess the essential experience and behaviours listed in the Candidate Pack. Please note that we will not be testing any of the desirable criteria throughout this process.

Candidates may refer to notes within their interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage may be invited to attend an interview. If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role is in a certain business critical category. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a skilled worker visa.

You must ensure you have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying.

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