Senior Internal Auditor - Potters Bar, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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Potters Bar, United Kingdom

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Description

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies.

We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

Job Purpose

The primary role of the CLUK Internal Audit (IA) function is to assist the Board in discharging its governance responsibilities in monitoring and reviewing the effectiveness of systems of internal control, by providing independent reliable assurance that theorganisation's governance, risk management and control processes are adequate, effective and sustainable.

The Senior Internal Auditor serves as a member of the IA team, assisting IA Management to meet the strategic objectives of the function.

Key Accountabilities
1)

Lead audit engagements including the following activities:
drafting engagement-level risk assessment, design and execution of audit work programme; drafting the audit report.

Depending on the size and complexity of an engagement, they will be delivered solely or alongside members of the wider IA department.

2) Complete internal financial controls testing for allocated business processes.
3) Provide IA managers (and the Chief Internal Auditor) with support in meeting the IA's broader functional development objectives.
4) Provide control and governance advice to the business in response to requests for audit advisory activity.
Desired Knowledge / Experience / Skills

The following skills and/or experience are essential:

Applied knowledge and expertise in the use of risk-based audit methodologies, tools and techniques.
Ability to work under pressure within a team and individually to take responsibility for ensuring deadlines are met.
Ability to communicate persuasively at all levels with clarity and precision, both written and verbally.
Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate working in a small team and liaising with internal and external customers.
Sound business and technical acumen, with the ability to navigate a complex organisation effectively.
Able to analyse complex business and technical situations, make informed decisions about appropriate corrective actions and convince others to act.
Applied knowledge and experience in using computerassisted audit tools and techniques (e.g. Excel, ACL, Tableau and internal audit management software).

The following skills and/or experiences are an advantage:

Relevant work experience in a Big Four accounting firm or within a financial services company with demonstrated working knowledge of governance, risk management and internal controls.
Applied knowledge and experience in the use of internal audit and control frameworks (e.g. COSO Internal Control
IIA's International Professional Practices Framework).

Qualifications:

Qualified accountant or Chartered Internal Auditor (desirable).
GCSE (or equivalent) English and Maths (essential)
Bachelor's degree from accredited college or university (essential)

What you'll like about working here

As a Canada Life UK colleague, you'll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance, along with a generous pension and bonus scheme.

You'll also receive the support youneed with your personal and professional development.

Diversity and inclusion
Canada Life is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our role as an employer of choice is to provide the right environment for talented people to do their best work, by respecting, understanding and valuing individual differences
We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you