Total 2 Accounting / Auditing job vacancies in BH24 1AB

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Service: Chief Executive’s Office

Job Title: Chief Officer (Audit and Risk)

Responsible to: Chief Executive

Grade: JNC 34-36, £99,064 - £103,354 p/a.

Hours: 35

ROLE SUMMARY

The Chief Officer Audit and Risk plays a vital strategic role, delivering a regular programme of audit work; holding services to account; identifying areas of weakness in terms of risk management, internal control, governance, or service failure and providing professional advice and guidance to the Chief Executive and Chief Officers to ensure the Council maintains the highest possible standards.

This includes designing and delivering best practice operational audit and risk practices across the organisation, as well as horizon scanning and assessing all strategic and operational risks and putting in place robust plans to ensure these are mitigated and managed accordingly.

JOB PURPOSE

Being accountable as a Chief Officer and member of the Corporate Management Team for the overall strategic leadership and management of the functional service areas delegated to the role within the wider Chief Executive’s Services Directorate.

Contributing to the wider management of the Council as part of the Corporate Management Team and the Business Management Team, with specific lead responsibility for areas of corporate priority as allocated by the Chief Executive.

Please see attached Recruitment Pack for further details. This advert closes on Sunday 18th August 2024 and interviews will be held week beginning 9 September 2024.

Working here at North Lanarkshire Council

If you’re considering a career with us, you’ll be keen to know what’s in it for you. We have a great package of benefits available, from health and wellbeing to finances and family. This includes 27 days annual leave and 6 public holidays*, and a wide range of benefits available to you, find out more at work well NL.

We also have a full package of learning and development through our learning academy LearnNL to help you reach your full potential and further your career.

For more information on local authority careers visit the myjobscotland career hub

North Lanarkshire Council are Happy to Talk Flexible Working, we operate a Smarter Working Policy.

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We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who consider themselves to be disabled, as long as they meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description.

We have also adopted the Armed Forces Community Covenant to show our support for service personnel, veterans and their families. We offer a guaranteed interview for service leavers, spouses, reservists and veterans, as long as they meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description.

North Lanarkshire Council is committed to #KeepingThePromise. This means that if you have ever been in care (looked after at home with a social worker, lived with a relative other than your parents, experienced foster, residential or secure care) you are entitled to a guaranteed interview for this post, as long as you meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description. This is one way North Lanarkshire is demonstrating our commitment to supporting Care-Experienced People.

The Plan for North Lanarkshire is to be the place to live, learn, work, invest and visit. The Council recognises that work is an important part of adult life and is critical to our wellbeing and shaping how we live. The Fair Work Convention’s Framework defines Fair Work as work that offers effective voice, fulfilment, opportunity, respect and security. We believe Fair Work can boost creativity, realise untapped potential and increase productivity. To find out more click on the link.

Alternative Application Packs can be requested in other formats for example, Large Print, Braille, and Audio. To request an alternative Application Pack please phone 01698 403151.

The following link contains our Easy Read documents which will help explain the process and what happens during the selection process: Easy Read – My NL

***PLEASE NOTE WE DO NOT ACCEPT CVS IN PLACE OF THE APPLICATION FORM. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS VACANCY YOU MUST ENSURE AN APPLICATION FORM IS SUBMITTED. ANY CV SUBMISSIONS WILL BE DISREGARDED.***

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Your new organisation
Southend-on-Sea City Council is a unitary authority based in the heart of the city centre. This diverse and busy city has a great seafront, public parks and leisure activities, competitive house pricing and excellent travel links, accessible via two train lines from Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street. It offers traditional seaside living that makes it a fantastic place to live, work and play!
The Council delivers a wide range of vital services at the heart of the community, as well as investing in exciting and ambitious projects that keep Southend-on-Sea firmly on the map. The Council has high expectations for the future and is working with local partners and local communities to ensure we deliver our exciting ambition for what the Borough needs to be for the future.

Your new role
The council are seeking to recruit an Audit Manager to join their
highly regarded, energetic, creative and supportive Internal Audit team on a full time, permanent basis.

The team gained the Institute of Internal Audit's top grade in their most recent External Quality Assessment.
As an Audit Manager, you will help lead the team to provide a high quality, independent, objective internal audit service to our clients that adds value as well as helps ensure their business is managed both efficiently and cost effectively.
As an Audit Manager, you will plan and lead audits using a risk-based approach, lead on developing and delivering aspects of the audit plan and deliver more complex audit work. You will also have a key role to play in the development of the team. Delivery of the audit plan will see the team audit all aspects of our clients' business and the post will require you to be able to effectively evaluate a system or process, identify the key controls and an appropriate testing strategy for them, as well as draft and agree reports with senior management. You will also be expected to play a key role in team management and staff development.As you continue to develop and thrive professionally, you will keep striving to explore new ways of improving our approach to audit and associated working practices.

For further enquiries, please contact

What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this role, you will need to be an experienced and self-sufficient auditor, with at least some management experience, who always takes care to lead on delivery of high quality audits to the highest standards of accuracy, on budget and within agreed deadlines, with appropriate support and challenge from the Head of Internal Audit. You need to be able to effectively co-ordinate, check and challenge the audit work of colleagues or contractors, to ensure it is properly completed before reports are prepared.

Effective communication, committing to and demonstrating our organisation's values and behaviours is essential for this role, as you will be liaising with the Council's internal and external stakeholders.
Internal audit supervisory experience is essential for this role and it will be advantageous if that experience is within a Local Government setting.

Full and current membership of AAT, or part qualified with current membership of IIA, CIPFA, ACCA, ICA (or equivalent) is essential. We will also consider contributing to the repayment of fees to your current employer, if you still have commitments arising from study provided by them.

Your application will not be considered if you do not have a full and valid driving license and access to a car with business use insurance cover.

What you'll get in return
If you join the Council, you will enjoy a range of benefits including flexible and hybrid working, salary sacrifice schemes,25 days holiday in a full-time contract (excluding bank holidays)
and excellent training and development opportunities. A full list of benefits provided by Southend-on-Sea City Council can be found on the Jobs at the council web page under the "Why Work for us Tab".

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.Please note: Applications for this vacancy may close prior to the date advertised above so you are advised to apply as soon as you are able to.If you would like a copy of either the Job Description , please click hereThe Council is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications, regardless of race, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, age or religion or belief.

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