auditor Peterborough, England
Markerstudy Group
Full Time
Peterborough, England
37462 - 27561 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Overview:
Our key challenges are…
To help us achieve this, we have recently established an employee network called #WeAreMarkerstudy - a body of proactive colleagues with diverse interests and experiences, who have volunteered themselves to be part of a driving force for positive change.
Change won’t happen overnight or without the support of our colleagues, but we are now in a good position to make realistic and manageable plans in order to see them flourish in the future.
This role has two key areas of accountability:
- The coordination and production of board level executive reports, working closely with the CIO as needed, to meet the governance requirements for Markerstudy Group, at a level suitable for NED or external governing body reviews.
- To provide coordination overall and management of internal and external audit activity across our M-powered IT function. This includes facing into auditors on behalf of M-powered, organising the resources needed to meet audit requirements, reviewing draft audit findings and assuring agreed audit actions for the M-powered leadership team are managed to delivery within a satisfactory time period.
Responsibilities
- Board reporting – compiling, drafting and finalising reporting content aligned to the standards required.
- ERC or similar level reporting to ensure that all input and updates are pertinent and a true reflection of M-powered position.
- Ensuring that the feedback from those bodies reaches those holding actions and actions are updated
- Liaising with Internal Audit to coordinate the audit and assurance reviews as they are scheduled across the year. Enabling access to people, information and processes required from Mpowered
- External audits, coordinating the people, information, access and policies required to meet 3rd party audit requirements from Financial Auditors, Affinity Partners or other 3rd parties with audit rights (this excludes due diligence responses)
- Holding the audit planning schedule and ensuring visibility of upcoming activity
- Accountable for the successful completion of audit actions, usually held across SLT executive team
Key Stakeholders
- Chief Information Officer
- Group Governance Roles, including Head of Governance; Head of Compliance; Head of Risk;
- Senior Leadership Team of M-powered, including CISO; Chief Architect, CTO and Divisional Heads of IT
- EA to the CIO
- Internal Audit & Assurance teams
Essential:
- Executive level communication skills / experience
- Strong analytical experience
- Excellent coordination and planning skills
- Stakeholder Management experience
- Proven experience of working with auditors
- Experience working closely with technology teams
Preferred:
- Extensive experience of working within a regulated industry
- Experience work in a governance, audit or assurance role
- Experience of working with technology and IT security staff
What are we doing to help us build a thriving, inclusive community?
Our ambition is to build a more diverse, equal and inclusive workplace for everyone and we have a mission statement in place to reinforce our commitment. However, that’s the easy part!
Our key challenges are…
- How we continue to nurture positive behaviours in our own culture to foster healthy, happy and collaborative colleagues where performance is recognised and differences celebrated.
- How we strive to build our own internal community to better reflect the diverse communities we serve.
To help us achieve this, we have recently established an employee network called #WeAreMarkerstudy - a body of proactive colleagues with diverse interests and experiences, who have volunteered themselves to be part of a driving force for positive change.
Change won’t happen overnight or without the support of our colleagues, but we are now in a good position to make realistic and manageable plans in order to see them flourish in the future.
