Group Audit Specialist
Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, GB
Full-time
Salary: £46,293 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension
Division: Risk Assurance & QSHE
Site Location: UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire
Confirmed Grade: Level 5
Department: Risk and Assurance
Company Description
By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world's energy? If so, read on.
Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and Stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs.
UKAEA leads the way in realising fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for groundbreaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow's power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values: Innovative, Committed, Trusted, and Collaborative.
Job Description
As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from:
- Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
- Corporate bonus scheme up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
- Flexible working options including family friendly policies.
- Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders.
- Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays.
- Wide range of career development opportunities.
- A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive.
This role currently requires employees to be eligible for SC Clearance (must have resided in the UK for the last 5 years), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.
The Audit Specialist role has a salary of £46,293 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy.
As the Group Audit Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in planning and leading audit assignments, co-ordinating audit resources, supporting the planning and delivery of the audit programme, including the development of the audit plan, identifying risk exposures, and verifying audit action completion.
You will be collaborating with the Group Head of Internal Audit and the Group Systems Audit Manager to drive the business in the development and promotion of a proactive culture for assurance.
This role will see you working on a broad array of auditing functions and across all elements of an internal audit service, providing opportunities for growth and development in your professional career.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Planning, conducting and delivering audit assignments as required.
- To co-ordinate the management systems and internal audit resources including ensuring appropriate competencies are maintained against an appropriate training matrix.
- Managing the QPulse action tracking software and information added to QPulse including the validation of audit actions prior to closing out ensuring it delivers an effective and efficient user experience.
- You will be supervising the timely close-out of audit actions, proactively engaging with stakeholders, validating data and submissions to close-out audit actions.
- Acting and deputising as the Group Systems Audit Manager when necessary.
Qualifications
Essential Requirements:
- Degree or higher degree.
- Internal auditor qualification or working towards.
- It would be advantageous to have experience in auditing over a wide range of functional areas (e.g. finance, projects & programmes, risk management or information security).
- Highly developed organisational awareness, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to communicate, influence and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Data analysis skills.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills including SharePoint.
- Power Platform experience desirable.
Additional Information
For a full list of benefits and to apply, select the apply button to be taken through to the UKAEA careers pages.
We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.