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- Competitive salary
- Career development
- to deliver the annual audit plan;
- manage the Group’s risk register; and assist the business improve its control environment through the identification and documentation of its key controls
- Assist in the development of the IA annual risk assessment and planning process to develop an audit plan (covering all areas of the business (including finance, customer services, technology, operations).
- Provide input into the planning process for individual audit reviews to define appropriate Terms of Reference.
- Assist in the delivery of individual risk-based audits, in line with the audit plan, to agreed scopes and deadlines.
- Draft internal audit reports on a timely basis, ensuring the reports are clear and concise, identify root causes of issues reported and improvement actions discussed and agreed with management.
- Assist in the production of Board and Audit Committee reports on audit activity.
- Assist in the regular update of the Group Risk Register, ensuring the top-down approach is maintained whilst helping to build a bottom-up approach.
- Help ensure the Group’s top risks align with the annual audit plan.
- Assist in the production of Board and Audit Committee risk reports.
- Assist in the documentation of key business processes identifying risk, controls, and evidencing requirements.
- Focus on key operational areas across customer operations; read to cash; outsourced operations; billing and collections; brokers and partnerships; digital portals
- Help to identify control gaps and suggest remediating steps.
- Ability to plan own work to complete required audit activities, whether as part of a team or individually conducted audit reviews.
- Able to work to deadlines and prioritise workload, across simultaneous audits at different stages of the audit process.
- Able to identify and recommend practical improvement recommendations for areas of identified deficiency.
- Able to identify key risks and controls in financial and non-financial systems and processes.
- Ability to build strong relationships with staff across all levels in the organisation.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to concisely and accurately present information to a variety of recipients.
- Active listener with interpersonal skills to push / negotiate a proposal through and, where it is right to do so, be resilient to counter challenges.
- Work collaboratively with the business across all areas of audit activity.
- Resilient and calm under pressure.
- Able to work both on your own initiative and as part of a team.
- Natural curiosity with the ability to quickly learn about the industry and Water Plus’s own systems, processes and controls.
- Self-starter and innovator with a proactive attitude and a desire and ability to effect change.
- Demonstrate independent mindset, whilst pragmatic to the history and development of this business to date.
- Able to show creativity in problem solving in a commercial environment.
- Strong analytical skills, both qualitative and quantitative, to validate controls and support solutions identified.
- Internal and/or external audit experience
- SOX documentation experience
- Full or part qualified IIA, AAT, ACA, ACCA - Study support for accountancy qualification, or equivalent, may be offered and encouraged.
- ITGC experience
- Intermediate knowledge of Excel
