Senior Audit Manager - Assurance (Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffs)

Senior Audit Manager - Assurance (Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffs) Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an enthusiastic audit professional (CCAB/IIA qualified) to join our successful team working across Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire and surrounding areas. The successful candidate will be based in our Chester office at the 1829 Building, Countess of Chester Health Park. As a Senior Audit Manager (Band 8A), you will be earning up to £60,504, leading the delivery of internal audit and adding value to NHS and Public Sector organisations, all within a flexible working environment.

Key Purpose of the Role:

• Take responsibility for operational elements of team delivery and client management of a broad and challenging portfolio of internal audit plans, including the personal conduct of highly complex audit assignments.
• Conclude upon the quality of all audit opinions produced for the team's allocated reviews to support the drafting of the Head of Internal Audit Opinions.
• Direct and supervise staff to deliver the allocated audit reviews on time, to budget, and to quality standards.
• Report to Senior Executives and the Audit Committee on a regular basis on specific reviews as required.
• Respond to a broad range of sensitive and complex queries from clients and staff.
• Support the development of knowledge sharing activities to inform the work of MIAAs internal teams to strengthen knowledge and practice across the Agency.
• Support the development of the profile of the Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire MIAA Audit team.

Main Duties of the Job

Job Summary:

Take responsibility for the operational elements of client management of a broad and challenging portfolio of audit plans, including the personal conduct of highly complex assignments.

Conclude upon the quality of all audit opinions produced for allocated clients, draft the Head of Internal Audit Opinion, and assist in the drafting of the Annual Governance Statement as required.

Direct and supervise staff to deliver the allocated audit plans on time, to budget, and to quality standards.

Report to the Audit Committee on a regular basis.

Respond to a broad range of sensitive and complex queries from clients and staff.

About Us

MIAA is an NHS Shared service, hosted by Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. MIAA is the predominant provider of internal audit services to over 50+ NHS and public sector organisations in the Northwest and beyond. MIAA offers clients a number of services in addition to internal audit, including Solutions, Anti-Fraud, Technical Risk Assurance, Capital, Clinical Coding, and Healthcare Quality Support Unit.

MIAA's budgeted turnover is £12 million, which demonstrates the organisation's ambitious and strategic goals.

We pride ourselves on promoting equality and valuing diversity.

All our teams benefit from:

• Flexible/Hybrid Working
• Development and protected learning time

MIAA Values:

• Trust
• Respect & Compassion
• Innovation and Excellence

Job Responsibilities

Produce, agree, and oversee delivery of risk-based plans with allocated clients designed to produce sufficient assurances to fulfil the requirements of the Head of Internal Audit Opinion on the effectiveness of internal control.

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

Operate as budget holder for allocated plans, 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.

Fully comply with all aspects of the confidentiality policy.

Person Specification Qualifications

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

Experience

• Must have experience of working in audit and demonstrable understanding of audit role and techniques.
• Must have experience of managing and supervising staff.
• Experience of working in NHS or other public sector organizations resulting in a good understanding of systems and processes is desirable for the post. Alternative experience in an equivalent organization may be acceptable.

Knowledge

• 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

• 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, including presentational, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Must have excellent analytical skills and 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.