Senior Audit Manager - Assurance (Lancashire & Manchester)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Principles Responsibilities

Produces, agrees, and oversees delivery of risk-based plans with allocated clients that are designed to produce sufficient assurances to fulfil the requirements of the Head of Internal Audit Opinion on the effectiveness of internal control.

Manages the planning, conduct, output, and opinions for all audit work for allocated clients within agreed deadlines, budgets, and quality standards.

Operates as budget holder for allocated plans i.e., a discrete set of services, requiring the planning and organizing of complex activities and programmes to ensure income is recovered, costs contained, and outputs delivered. Often these budgeted plans need to be adjusted on an ongoing basis for reporting to Audit Committees as priorities shift.

Manages and develops the key relationships with allocated clients, particularly at Director of Finance and Audit Committee level.

Provides the principal advice to allocated clients on Annual Governance Statement preparation and related governance and risk management matters.

Responsibility for ensuring allocated plans is incorporated into the overall planning of resources and commitments for the function. Plans and organises the work schedule for allocated clients to ensure weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual timetables are delivered particularly regarding Audit Committee deadlines.

Personally, conducts a range of highly complex audits for reporting to senior management and the Audit Committee. These will routinely be complicated and multi-layered where sensitive judgements need to be framed in situations where solutions are not clear.

Conducts complex research on behalf of the team and the Agency to develop and pilot approaches to emerging auditable areas.

Makes recommendations as appropriate often involving significant proposed changes to working practices and procedures following policy implementation across multiple areas and NHS organisations. These routinely will involve contributing to service redesign and providing benchmarking information.

Undertakes complex systems reviews that conclude upon financial control, physical security of cash and the safeguarding of assets.

Responds to, and often anticipates, queries from clients, which may be of a highly sensitive and highly confidential nature, and investigates and reports as necessary to the satisfaction of the client. These queries may relate to complex issues requiring a detailed understanding of complex client risks, NHS systems and existing guidance. This will include advice, information, and guidance for direct use by patients, relatives, or carers.

Secures added value additional consultancy work which enhances the profile and capability of the Agency.

Participates in preparation and delivery of presentations for tendered internal audit contracts.

Manages the work of Delivery Managers, Principal Auditors and Auditors within the function.

On occasions, deputises for the Regional Assurance Directors.

Manages the relationship with the external auditors for allocated clients to ensure integration of audit resource and positive review of internal audit quality.

Builds effective client relationships across the functions clients.

Please read job description and person specification in full.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional accountancy qualification (CCAB) qualified plus significant demonstrable PQE plus self-certified CPD plus experience of operating at Board level/equivalent/, presenting to Audit Committee and influencing Executive and Non-Executive Directors. OR
• MIIA plus significant demonstrable PQE plus self-certified CPD for a significant period plus experience of operating at Board level, presenting to Audit Committee, and influencing Executive and Non-Executive Directors plus experience knowledge and skills/equivalent.

Desirable

• Professional healthcare qualification recognised by UK professional body/Quality Improvement qualification plus significant demonstrable PQE skills, knowledge, experience, and expertise

Experience

Essential

• Must have experience of working in audit and demonstrable understanding of audit role and techniques.
• Must have experience of managing and supervising staff.

Desirable

• Experience of working in NHS or other public sector organization resulting in a good understanding of systems and processes is desirable for the post. Alternative experience in an equivalent organization may be acceptable.

Knowledge

Essential

• To demonstrate a full understanding of NHS structure, policy, functions, and systems together with the aptitude to build on that knowledge.
• Must understand corporate governance, risk management and assurance principles and practice.
• To demonstrate a full understanding of audit and financial principles and practice together with the aptitude to build on that knowledge.

Skills

Essential

• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills to enable complicated audit and financial issues to be explained to a range of NHS staff, often at a senior level. This will include presentational, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Must have excellent analytical skills and have the ability to collate complex data from various sources.
• Must have strong supervision, staff management, coaching and mentoring skills.
• Must have the ability to negotiate and persuade, sometimes in a setting that is unresponsive or hostile to audit findings.
• Must have a good level of numeracy, keyboard skills and computer literacy (ECDL or equivalent)
• Must have the ability to make judgements and recommendations in the context of complex systems and risk and materiality of findings.
• Must have good time management skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines whilst managing competing priorities.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

MIAA

North West Region

Lancashire, South Cumbria and Manchester

BB3 0FG

Employer's website

https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)