Senior Auditor at Capita

Job Description:

What you’ll be doing:

Senior Auditors will be allocated to audit assignments across the group wide audit plan that both builds on their previous experience and develops their potential. Senior Auditors will work in small teams, with coaching, supervision and review from Audit Managers to deliver individual audit assignments. This will include:

• Being involved in the planning, execution and reporting of individual audits
• Coaching and supervising Auditors, as the team grows
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with the business throughout the audit process
• Working with the Risk & Compliance team and other second line functions
• Identifying and escalating risks and issues within the business to the Audit Managers
• Clearly and actively role modelling the Capita Values and complying with Capita’s Policies

Senior Auditors will be expected to provide the internal audit service in line with the Capita internal audit methodology and International Internal Audit (IIA) standards. Importantly, quality goes beyond methodology and compliance and encompasses WHAT the internal audit service does and HOW it does it.

• Key considerations on WHAT include whether the plan provides assurance over the key risks and whether individual reviews have considered and addressed the right systems, processes and controls
• Key elements of HOW include working in collaboration with management whilst maintaining independence, being agile and flexible to business needs, providing insight to management, responding positively to feedback from the business, role modelling the Capita Values and contributing to the internal audit team a positive way

Capita Values

• Implement and practice the Capita Values through practical application of the behaviours required as a VALUES champion and actively pursue our promise of a great experience again and the purpose of helping to enable others.

Minimum qualifications: -

• Grade 12
• A qualified audit professional – e.g. CA (SA)

Minimum experience: -

• Newly or recent qualified Chartered Accountant
• Experience in a professional services or internal audit role
• Proven track record of successfully delivered audit work
• Operational audit or risk based audit experience
• Strong communication skills and report writing skills
• The ability to build relationships as part of audit assignments
• A commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

As well as: 

• Good practical experience of Systems and IT/PC literate (Internet, MS Teams, Power Point, Excel and Word)

Skills:

• Strong interpersonal skills, building relationships across the organisation
• Strong business and commercial understanding which facilitates credibility and confidence when interacting with the business
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence outcomes
• The ability to work and communicate at an operational level, but an awareness, instinct and ability to press for detail, and understand issues at an appropriate level of depth, and identify root causes
• Behaviour that role models the Capita Values
• The ability and willingness to develop their skills and provide coaching and support to audit staff
• The ability to contribute to the development of a strong and a highly capable internal audit team
• that is seen as highly competent across the organisation