Senior Auditor

We Are St Helens Borough Council.

Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits including an excellent Car Leasing scheme, flexible ways of working and learning and development support.

Making A Difference as a Senior Auditor in Internal Audit in Corporate Services

Are you an experienced and dynamic professional looking for a role in internal audit?

Reporting to the Team Manager – Audit and Counter Fraud, you will work with a team of internal audit and counter fraud professionals.

You will contribute to developing, implementing, and delivering the Council’s Annual Internal Audit strategy, ensuring delivery of high quality and timely audit outcomes that combine independent, objective assurance statements with helpful and value adding recommendations, advice, and counsel to clients across all aspects of the Council’s business.

You will hold or be actively studying for formal accounting/audit qualification and will need to be able to demonstrate an appropriate level of experience within an Internal Audit environment, ideally in local government.

Interested to Find Out More?

You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.

You are also welcome to contact us for a chat before applying by emailing Nicola Colquitt - Team Manager – Audit and Counter Fraud - [email protected]

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.

Thank you for your interest in working for us.

If you are experiencing issues with applying online, you can contact a member of the team at [email protected] and a form will be sent to you to complete.

Equality & Diversity

St Helens Borough Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation.

St Helens Borough Council is a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident Employers lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.

NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life

All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.

Closing date: 28 January 2024.

Interviews will be held w/c 05 February 2024.

Apply link: https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/article/3101/See-job-vacancies