INTERNAL AUDITOR – Stevenage – fixed term contract for 11 months recruitment
With more than 150,000 members in 127 countries, we share and advance knowledge throughout the global engineering and technology community.
To support this broad spectrum of activities, you will be providing assurance on the operation of key financial and operational controls, together with the reliability, accuracy and completeness of financial records within our wider operational risk environment. In doing so you will help to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes across the organisation.
The focus of your role will be internal audit, where you will follow a pre-defined programme encompassing reviews of key financial and operational controls. Confirming process documentation relating to key business processes, you will identify and test key controls within these processes, identify gaps, weaknesses, and suitable benchmarks, and recommend improvements as required. In doing so you will also be evaluating internal accounting and administrative controls in relation to cost benefits, effectiveness and economies of scale.
Reporting to the Commercial and Contracts Manager, you will be expected to maintain comprehensive internal auditing work papers supporting your findings, to investigate irregularities, and to keep abreast of developments in internal audit Best Practice and the governance regime of charities as this relates to the IET.
Other facets of your role will include implementation and maintenance of the software solution managing the Strategic Risk Register, observation of routine desk testing of the Business Continuity Plan, and the provision of assistance with areas such as data protection compliance and PCI DSS standards.
Professional and impartial, yet proactive and flexible, you will ideally be qualified or studying for qualification in internal audit - and/or a part/fully qualified or QBE accountant. You will certainly have current experience of internal audit, with a strong understanding of risk and of general accounting principles. Comfortable and convincing in senior-level presentations, you will also have proven powers of influence and persuasion. A good grasp of IT and complex systems is vital, whilst an understanding of PRINCE2 methodologies (or similar) and a working knowledge of process mapping techniques would be useful.
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