Your Role
and What You'll Be Doing
About Irwin Mitchell
At Irwin Mitchell, we’re committed to doing the right thing — for our clients, our colleagues and our business. Strong governance, effective risk management and robust controls are central to how we operate, and our Internal Audit team plays a vital role in supporting the firm to achieve its strategic objectives.
We take a collaborative, insightful and human approach to assurance, working closely with colleagues across the firm to help strengthen our control environment and enable confident decision-making.
The Role
We’re looking for a Senior Internal Auditor to join our Internal Audit team. In this role, you’ll build strong relationships across Irwin Mitchell, gaining a deep understanding of how the firm operates and how our people, processes and systems come together.
You'll deliver end-to-end internal audits — from risk assessment and planning through to fieldwork, reporting and follow-up — providing insightful, value-adding assurance and advice to stakeholders. Alongside planned audits, you’ll also support a range of ad-hoc assignments such as investigations, root cause analysis and lessons-learned reviews, broadening your experience and technical expertise.
You’ll balance strong technical knowledge of governance, risk and controls with empathy and curiosity, helping the business enhance its control environment in a way that is proportionate, practical and aligned to our values.
What You’ll Be Doing
1. Supporting the Director of Risk, Resilience and Internal Audit in undertaking risk assessments and contributing to the development of the annual Internal Audit plan.
2. Delivering the full internal audit lifecycle, including planning, fieldwork, reporting and follow-up.
3. Producing clear, insightful and commercially focused audit reports.
4. Building strong working relationships across the firm to understand key activities, projects and risks.
5. Attending key forums, working groups and committees to provide insight on governance, risk management and controls.
6. Keeping technical knowledge up to date with industry trends and best practice.
About You
What We’re Looking For
7. Proven experience in internal audit, assurance or a similar risk-based role.
8. Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
9. Experience identifying and assessing risk and evaluating control effectiveness.
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
11. Ability to manage multiple assignments concurrently.
12. High levels of integrity, professionalism and discretion.
Desirable
13. Professional certification (or working towards one) in internal auditing, risk management or governance.
14. Experience using audit management systems, data analytics or AI-enabled tools.
15. Experience within professional services or a regulated environment.
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
16. 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
17. Generous and flexible pension schemes.
18. Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
19. Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.