Internal Auditor - London, United Kingdom - Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Internal Audit & Risk team play a key role in supporting both core operations and the ongoing transformation by providing independent and objective feedback to the Audit and Executive Committees on key risks to M&S and the effectiveness of mitigating controls.

Our remit is extensive and covers all commercial and functional activities We also provide consultative advice to project teams on the design and implementation of business process controls, and conduct investigations if a significant control failure occurs.

You'll be working with different teams at all levels across the business, building trusted partnerships, reviewing the efficiency of business processes, challenging, supporting improvements to the control environment and adding tangible value.

Our activities are also directly aligned with an overall objective to enhance digital capabilities across the organisation.

About the role

Learning how different activities across M&S work, assessing design and effectiveness of control activities and working with the business to identify corrective actions
Supporting continuous improvement objectives, forming effective relationships with business partners and supporting ad hoc projects as needed, such as those linked to investigations, data analytics or risk management
There may be limited UK and International travel (although this is unlikely to exceed 10%).

Key Accountabilities:

Participating and leading on delivery of core audit activities, including preparation of risk assessments, test programmes and drafting audit report content in line with the functional Internal Audit methodology
Engaging key business partners during audit activities, providing regular progress updates.
Actively developing positive relationships with a wide range of business contacts to gain knowledge and insight into the issues
Maintaining quality and integrity standards and delivering against functional targets
Engaging with action owners to acquire regular progress updates and drive timely completion of audit actions
Assisting the development of the audit plan for the year by proposing relevant audits and analytics work for inclusion

Key Skills:

Accounting or Audit qualification (ACA/ACCA/IIA) with proven knowledge of risk and control audit methodologies and practical experience of auditing techniques. Including risk assessment, controls evaluation, different testing methodologies (substantive and nonsubstantive) and audit report writing.
Ability to develop and implement high quality audit programmes from first principles (where no prior audit files exist), for ambiguous or abstract operational and commercial business processes
Integrity and objectivity
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
To be a great teammate, capable of establishing effective relationships
Commercially savvy and can make practical recommendations that contribute to the success of the business
Excellent analysis and problemsolving skills, with the ability to challenge when needed
Comfortable adapting to new ways of working

LI-FD1

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That's why we're revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There's never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.