What You'll Be Doing
- Lead, plan, and manage the internal audit function, ensuring alignment with the firm’s strategic objectives and risk appetite.
- Act as the primary liaison between the firm and the external professional internal audit service provider, coordinating audit schedules, scopes, and deliverables.
- Execute or co-ordinate projects in the risk-based audit plan, ensuring comprehensive coverage of business processes, regulatory compliance, and operational controls.
- Review and assess the quality of audit work performed by both internal and external teams, providing constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to professional standards.
- Present audit findings, recommendations, and action plans to senior management and the Audit Committee, supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
- Monitor the implementation of agreed audit actions and track progress to ensure timely resolution of control issues.
- Stay abreast of legal, regulatory, and industry developments impacting the firm’s risk environment and internal controls.
- Keep up to date with emerging internal audit techniques, methodologies, and professional standards, ensuring audit approaches remain current, efficient, and risk focused.
- With support from the co-source provider, monitor developments in audit technology, data analytics, and automation, and identify opportunities to enhance audit planning, testing, reporting, and follow-up processes.
What We're Looking For
- Professional qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIA) with significant experience in internal audit, preferably within professional services or legal sector environments.
- Proven track record of managing co-sourced or outsourced audit arrangements, including collaboration with external providers.
- Strong understanding of risk management, internal controls, and compliance frameworks within international organisations.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and report writing skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, multi-jurisdictional environment and handle sensitive information with discretion.
Location
We are agnostic as to location within our global network, a preference would be for our Manchester, Birmingham or London offices. The ability however to travel with ease to the firm’s other international locations periodically would be an advantage. Occasional international travel to execute internal audit engagements within the firm is a pre-requisite.
