Salary: Up to £29,000
Location: Remote
Reporting to: Lead Audit Business Partner
Hours: Full-time, 36.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri)
We're looking for a proactive and collaborative Audit Business Partner to join our Funding & Compliance team. This role is perfect for someone who is eager to grow, build strong relationships, and influence positive change across the business.
During your first year, your main focus will be responding to emerging priority issues across the organisation. You'll step into whatever area presents the highest risk or business impact at the time, helping ensure the company remains compliant and auditready.
Working closely with teams across Paragon Skills, Shaping Lives, Babington and Tempdent, you'll support the development of internal audit practices, data integrity processes, and wider compliance standards.
Key Responsibilities
* Conduct internal audit and compliance checks, supporting business teams with 10% audits
* Deliver training and development sessions to upskill colleagues on audit and compliance
* Assist the Lead Audit Business Partner during external PFA and funding body audits
* Use PDSAT reports to support the creation and refinement of internal reporting mechanisms
* Facilitate funding and compliance audits to ensure accuracy, data integrity, and adherence to SLAs
* Support the business in adapting to changes in awarding body requirements and compliance expectations
If you're a forward thinking individual with a desire to make a difference then we'd love to hear from you.
* Strong influencing and relationshipbuilding skills, especially with Operational Managers and delivery teams
* A proactive, solutionfocused mindset
* Excellent attention to detail
* A willingness to learn and build specialist knowledge around funding rules
* Confidence working independently in a remote environment
* Experience carrying out financial funding audits, with strong understanding of government funding rules (or willingness to develop this)
* Experience communicating across a large, multisector training provider
* Background in funding, compliance, or similar auditdriven roles
* Ability to meet deadlines and achieve targets
* Strong analytical and problemsolving skills with an affinity for working with data
* High levels of accuracy and ability to identify and correct errors
* Ability to travel occasionally for inperson meetings and 1:1s
We are proud to offer a suite of which are optional benefits including life assurance and income protection and core benefits below;
20 days annual leave - increasing with length of service and a holiday purchase scheme
3 Knovia Days for our Operational December Closure and 8 Public Bank Holidays
Up to 3 days of paid volunteering leave and corporate conscience initiatives
. Your birthday off, for us to celebrate you
Perkbox - a suite of lifestyle benefits and wellness tools
Recognition and long service awards to celebrate our colleagues'
We are a Disability Confident Employer and have a guaranteed interview scheme in place to ensure that nobody is overlooked or discriminated against because of their disability. If you meet the minimum criteria when you apply and you have informed us in your application that you have a disability, you will be guaranteed an interview for that role.
We will be reviewing applications and conducting interviews on an on-going basis which may mean this vacancy closes prior to the advertised closing date if we have identified a suitable so please apply as soon as possible.
To promote and maintain an inclusive working environment, as part of your application process we will ask you to share data on certain characteristics. These answers will not form part of the selection and recruitment process and will not be shared with anyone outside of the People Team.
Paragon Skills is committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of our learners and colleagues and we implement robust safer recruitment practices to support this. Dependant on the role you are applying for, we may undertake a number of necessary checks to confirm you are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults, which may include a Disclosure and Barring Service check. We are also committed to promoting equality and inclusion throughout our colleague and learner populations.