Senior Audit and Assurance Specialist | University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

As organisations look for audit and assurance services to provide added value through the use of audit and assurance specialists, the purpose of this role is primarily to undertake audit work and prepare audit reports in line with internal audit’s statutory responsibility to independently and objectively review, evaluate and report on the adequacy of clients’ systems of internal control.

• Performing a large range of audit assignments of a complex/ad-hoc and non-financial nature in addition to a broad range of routine financial, governance and operational audit assignments in line with Public Sector Internal Audit Standards and the ASW Assurance Audit Manual, to agreed timescales. This may be based upon an overall generic supervisory and support role or acting as a Consortium expert lead for a defined specialist area.
• Responding to a broad range of requests for advice and assistance and queries from clients including sensitive, confidential and complex issues from all levels of client staff.
• Taking extensive responsibility for the operational audit management of substantial allocated elements of client audit plans in support of the Senior Audit and Assurance Manager’s overall responsibility to deliver all client operational audit plans.
• Contribute to the delivery of ASW Assurance’s Business Plan.
• Ensure the delivery of client operational internal audit plans.
• Ensure assignments, including those where the post holder is supervising junior staff and/or where post holder has responsibility for substantial elements of the operational audit plans, conform to the expectations of the quality standards and professional expectations (e.g. duty of care, independence etc.) as stated in the Public Internal Audit Standards, ASW Assurance Audit Manual and NHS Managers Code of Conduct.
• Ensure that assignments, including those where the post holder is supervising junior staff and/or where post holder has responsibility for substantial elements of the operational audit plans, are completed within timescales as stated in the operational audit plan of the client/agreed with the Senior Audit and Assurance Manager.
• Achieve personal and business-related objectives and targets set as part of the annual appraisal process and documented in the agreed personal development plan.
• Undertake any training required in order to maintain competency, including mandatory training.
• Ensure an understanding of the client’s business activities is maintained and to keep abreast of current issues within the NHS and internal audit profession.
• Contribute to and work within a safe working environment.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.

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This advert closes on Friday 21 Feb 2025