We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, process-driven self-starter to join our Internal Audit team in York. As a Senior Internal Auditor, you will support delivery of the internal audit plan and assist in developing leading audit practices across Portakabin.
Working alongside the Internal Audit Manager and Head of Risk and Internal Audit, you will deliver allocated elements of the internal audit plan in a timely and cost-effective manner, whilst raising audit actions which are pragmatic and risk focused, but value-adding to Portakabin.
This is a hybrid role and you will be expected to be based from our Head Office in York 2 days per week. There will also be some travel nationally and across Europe.
Role Details
1. Salary: £45, - £55, + annual bonus
2. Role based: Hybrid (York, YO32)
3. Contract type: Permanent
4. Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays
Role Responsibilities
5. To deliver formal internal audit reports per the agreed internal audit plan, with the reports being well written, accurate, insightful, risk based and aligned with how the business perceives the risk. This will include evaluating the key risks, the current controls, known gaps, potential risk impacts and agreeing remediation plans
6. Provide advice, support, guidance and assurance to the business, which might be in the form of advisory reports
7. Own the audit process from initial planning conversations, to fieldwork and the reporting of the findings and proposed actions to the business.
8. Ensure open actions are visible, with reminders to the business to ensure they don’t become overdue. This will include an element of advising the business on the sustainability of the activity to close the action(s)
9. Make key decisions e.g. on whether an action to address the residual risk is high, medium or low priority, and then whether the evidence presented to mitigate the risk is sufficient to close the action
10. Assess different options to mitigate the identified risks, both researching good practice internally, but also looking externally for good practice from other firms, Big 4 accounting practices and from the internal audit or risk management institutes/ associations
Benefits & Opportunities
11. Option to buy 5 days of annual leave
12. Working flexibly principles
13. Contributory pension
14. Annual bonus
15. A range of dedicated health and wellbeing services
16. Employee Assistance Program
17. A chance to give back to your community with an annual Volunteering Day Off
18. Fully funded professional qualifications and membership
19. Cycle to Work Scheme
20. Employee Benefits Program (Discounts at s of shops, gyms, restaurants and even holidays!
There is also great opportunity for career progression within Portakabin!
Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who has:
21. A minimum of 3 years’ experience in internal audit, external audit or financial control
22. Experience in delivering financial and non-financial reports to management
23. Accounting, risk or auditing qualification
24. Great stakeholder management and the ability to gain the trust of others
25. High attention to detail and deadline oriented
26. A proactive self-starter with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
27. Ability to summarise complex issues/ findings and be able to clearly articulate them
28. Ideally finance and non-finance experience