Senior Internal Audit Manager

Requirements of the role

The successful candidate will work closely with the CAA’s Head of Internal Audit (Chief Audit Executive) to deliver forward-thinking, relevant, and impactful outcome-based assurance and advice that challenges the CAA appropriately, and helps the organisation move forward with confidence. While using their knowledge and insight to contribute significantly to the ongoing development of the function, the candidate will also be expected to enhance the profile of Internal Audit through stakeholder engagement and trusted relationship building up to Board level. The candidate will be required to assume the responsibility of Chief Audit Executive, stepping up to the Head of Internal Audit role to provide continuity, resilience, and succession, on an as-needed basis.

Core Accountabilities

      The SIAM/ Deputy Head of Internal Audit’s key accountabilities are to:

• Deliver a portfolio of internal audits that are largely future-facing strategic design assessments, often at an early stage of development when thinking is still emerging, to provide timely objective assurance and advice on complex high-risk matters that have CAA-wide import.
• Engage at Director and Executive Director level to influence and challenge decisions, strategies and direction that can impact the CAA as a whole, based on professional judgement and experience, often without recourse to a defined or recognised reference framework.
• Enhance the profile of Internal Audit through senior stakeholder engagement and trusted relationship building up to Board level.
• Outside the audit process, provide shrewd, pragmatic, advice, and challenge to senior management on a variety of CAA-wide governance, risk management, and internal control related topics.
• Assume the responsibility of Chief Audit Executive, stepping up to the Head of Internal Audit role to provide continuity, resilience, and succession, on an as-needed basis.
• Draft and review risk and control matrices, Terms of Reference, and Internal Audit reports to an excellent standard.
• Support the continuous development of our agile audit methodology, standards, templates, and approach.
• Contribute knowledge and insight to our risk-based forward planning process.
• Contribute to and participate in the development and delivery of our Internal Audit vision, ‘to be’ operating model and change roadmap.
• Contribute to and support the Head of Internal Audit in providing an overall opinion on the CAA’s governance, risk management, and internal control.
• Liaise with and work effectively alongside our co-source partner internal auditors.
• Coach and develop others to deliver impactful internal audits in line with our methodology, quality expectations and approach.

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