Senior Internal Auditor

Role Details

Day Rate: 250 - 350

Interim 6 months +

37 hours per week

Location: Cambridge

Basic Disclosure required

The Role

The successful candidate will independently deliver complex audit assignments, assess the effectiveness of internal controls and provide practical advice to managers across the Council and its partners.

Key responsibilities:

• Planning and completing risk-based audits and key financial systems reviews.
• Evaluating controls, governance arrangements and compliance with relevant requirements.
• Producing clear audit reports and agreeing proportionate actions with management.
• Providing audit advice across projects, procurement, contracts, ICT and transformation.
• Undertaking special investigations, including whistleblowing reviews, when required.
• Supervising individual assignments and carrying out peer reviews where appropriate.
• Representing senior audit colleagues at working groups and meetings when required.

About You: You will ideally have:

• Strong internal audit experience and sound knowledge of risk-based auditing, ideally within local government or the wider public sector.
• Part-qualified CCAB or MIIA status; full qualification would be advantageous.
• Excellent analytical, report-writing and communication skills, with the confidence to negotiate and agree actions with managers at all levels.