Marks Sattin are working with a growing National Markets Internal Audit team that are looking to expand their team into 2018.

The Role

As an Assistant Manager in the National Markets team there will be opportunities to work on a variety of engagements covering the spectrum of services that we provide including:

- Reviewing and establishing internal audit functions

- Assurance mapping

- Creating annual audit plans for clients

- Providing internal audit services on both an outsourced and co-sourced contractual basis

- Managing and directly delivering individual and/or a programme of internal audit projects which includes planning, review, quality assurance and reporting

- Working with clients' in house internal audit functions to supply specialist or additional resource needed

- Sarbanes Oxley advisory services and delivery, including implementation projects and ingoing SOX testing

- Process improvement projects

- Risk management, governance and internal audit advisory services

- Risk identification workshops and control reviews

- Delivering control and risk training

- Managing and reviewing internal control questionnaires

- Corporate governance reviews

- Assessing effectiveness of internal audit functions, audit committees and boards

- Delivering specific advisory projects

- Business development

Responsibilities

- Delivery of internal audit reviews and associated reporting

- Demonstrating a detailed understanding of how current and emerging legal, regulatory, governance, risk management, auditing, accounting and financial reporting standards affect clients

- Providing relevant and timely input to quarterly Audit Committee papers

- Supporting managers with the setting of budgets for engagement and monitoring delivery against them

- Ensuring work in progress is monitored and controlled

- Supporting managers with financial aspects of engagements (e.g. fees being raised promptly / identifying and exploiting additional fee billing possibilities)

- Providing coaching and training to junior staff (where appropriate) on risk management and internal audit methodology

- Supporting management by identifying new opportunities for KPMG to work with clients and targets

- Assisting partners / other senior staff in general business development and proposals / bids

The Person

Skills/Qualifications/Experience:

- Qualified (IIA, CCAB, ICAEW or equivalent). Accounting qualification is highly preferable due to the requirement for SOX testing experience

- Delivery of fieldwork for internal audit and/or risk management engagements

- SOX testing experience is essential and experience of SOX implementation projects is highly beneficial. The candidate must have relevant up to date knowledge of SOX404 requirements

- Experience of being a key client contact for engagements and dealing with day to day interactions at FC / FD level

In return my Client is offering a very generous salary and benefits package. Interested candidate should apply as soon as possible for immediate consideration.