Audit Manager

Are you a motivated and enthusiastic individual looking for an opportunity to further your career in internal audit?

If so, this could be the perfect role for you. We're seeking an Audit Manager to join our growing team that values your skills and supports your career growth. You'll have the opportunity to inspire and lead your team while sharing our passion for supporting and adding value to our partners and clients.

The Southern Internal Audit Partnership (SIAP) provides internal audit and advisory services to a wide and growing portfolio of public sector partners and clients across the South of England. We pride ourselves on delivering an innovative, customer focused services that align with our clients' business needs and drive improved outcomes.

This is supported through our External Quality Assessment conducted by the IIA that confirmed our compliance against all aspects of the Public Sector Internal Audit Standards (PSIAS) and more recently our self-assessment against the Global Internal Audit Standards in the UK Public Sector that came into effect from April 2025.

The Role:

In joining SIAP, you'll be responsible for the management and development of an assigned team and for delivery of a portfolio of internal audit and advisory reviews to a professional standard.

What you'll do:

• Manage and deliver an assigned portfolio of internal audit work from across the Southern Internal Audit Partnership in accordance with performance targets and protocols
• Attend liaison meetings with relevant officers in the development of the audit plan (for allocated portfolios) ensuring that the audit plan remains responsive to the partner's needs and contributes to corporate objectives
• Effective resource planning and management, including regular liaison with other managers within the Partnership and matrix management of audit staff, to ensure delivery of assigned portfolios
• Line management responsibility for a team of staff
• Ensure monitoring information is regularly updated to reflect the current status of service delivery, escalating issues in a timely fashion
• Responsibility for the quality review of internal audit assignments in accordance with internal audit protocols and quality management system
• Attendance at audit committee meetings for assigned Partners and sold service clients
• Partake as required in the submission and presentation of tenders to prospective partners and sold service clients including the renewal of existing contracts
• Contribute significantly as a key member of the Southern Internal Audit Partnership Management Team in establishing effective operational procedures as well as ensuring a strong performance management culture

What we're looking for:

As an Audit Manager, you'll hold a CIA / CCAB qualification with significant post qualification experience. You'll have experience and a good understanding of the risk-based approach to internal audit to enable you to prepare partner and clients' audit plans, approve terms of reference prior to issue, quality review audit working papers and review all draft and final reports to ensure that a high-quality product is consistently delivered.

You'll be eager to learn, determined and adaptable and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills - both oral and written. With the ability to absorb information quickly, you'll also be able to identify and analyse problems in a logical and effective way. You'll be able to inspire and lead your team and above all, you'll share our passion to support and add value to our partners and clients in ensuring that they have effective risk management, governance, and control mechanisms in place.

Why join us?

Hampshire County Council is recognised nationally as one of the highest performing local authorities in the UK. A modern, forward-looking local authority, it offers a pleasant, supportive, and collaborative working environment, flexible working opportunities, an excellent work/life balance, a strong emphasis on training and development, professional challenge and variety and a central and well-connected Head Office location in the heart of the city of Winchester.