Senior IT Audit Manager
Main purpose of the job:
The National Audit Office (NAO) supports Parliament to hold the government to account for the way public services are delivered. Our primary role is to scrutinise public spending for Parliament. We do this by certifying over 400 government accounts and produce around 65 Value for Money (VFM) reports each year.
The bodies the NAO audits are investing in IT systems to address the challenges they face in fulfilling their role. This includes investing in new finance systems and related support systems. These investments mean that, increasingly, the NAO's financial audits are relying on automated controls, necessitating increased requirements for IT Audit to support the NAO's audits of financial statements.As such this role will provide the opportunity to work with organisations operating large complex IT platforms and undertaking major technology enabled transformations so will provide the opportunity to develop technical and business skills which will provide significant opportunities for future advancement both within and outside the NAO.
The Senior IT Audit Manager will be joining an existing team made up of an IT Audit Director and three other Senior IT Audit Managers. This senior team has access to a group of 19 IT Auditors comprised of experienced professionals and trainees to deliver work across around 50 different audited bodies covering all areas of the NAO's financial audit base.
The Senior IT Audit Managers will support the IT Audit Director and the Senior IT Audit Managers in planning and delivering an annual programme of IT audit work to support the external statutory financial audit of the NAO's audited bodies. The NAO is also seeking to build the level of IT audit skills across the organisation, so the Senior IT Audit Managers will also have an important role in developing the skills of both IT Audit Specialists and non-specialists.
Given the relatively small IT Audit Team, in relation to the size and complexity of the external central government bodies the NAO audits, the Senior IT Audit Manager would also be required to take on a share of the hands-on delivery work for IT audit, especially in the more complex areas.