Auditor

Role Responsibility

Are you looking to continue your training as an Internal Auditor? Are you committed to studying towards a professional internal auditing qualification? If so, we want to hear from you.

Following a recent restructure, we are delighted to be able to recruit an experienced Auditor to strengthen our Internal Audit and Counter Fraud Team.

If you have internal auditing and / or grant certification experience and are you looking for a new challenge, with a willingness and commitment to study, or continue studies towards a professional internal auditing qualification, and to further develop your internal auditing career we would love to hear from you.

Our Internal Audit and Counter Fraud Team has responsibility for independently reviewing one of the largest Council’s in the UK, alongside providing internal audit services and a grant certification service to several external clients and trading companies.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Degree qualification or equivalent
• Some experience of working within audit and / or an understanding of the role of internal audit and grant certification reviews
• A commitment and enthusiasm to study towards / complete a professional internal auditing qualification
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Experience of working effectively with colleagues
• Experience of working as a team player to support others as needed
• A good level of IT literacy
• Experience or commitment to utilise data analytics
• Excellent numeracy and finance skills
• The ability to manage their own workloads, whilst meeting multiple deadlines
• The ability to produce work to the required standard and within agreed timelines
• Great organisational skills and be self-disciplined, self-motivated and reliable
• An enthusiastic, positive and flexible approach
• An understanding of the need to maintain high levels of confidentiality and integrity at all times

If appointed to the role, you will be joining a highly respected, successful, supportive, and innovative team, which has received a positive external quality assessment against the Public Sector Internal Audit Standards.

Working for the largest County Council in the country will give you the opportunities for a whole range of experiences and an in depth understanding of how a large public sector body works.  We aim to make a real difference to support and protect our stakeholders and our range of clients, and you will play a major role in how we continually move our service forward.

You will be joining a service which is fully committed to your development. We also want to make a difference in your life, well-being and your career, and it is not just the technical nature of the job that will play a role in how you advance – it is the team and the culture that will be key to your job satisfaction and the advancement of your career development.

This role will be based in Maidstone, however remote working is central to how we operate.

There will be a requirement to visit external clients across the County.

This role attracts the benefit of flexible working (including both hours and location of work) and a wide range of other employment benefits.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service. 

Interviews will be held week commencing 16^th October 2023.

Contact Details

For more information, please contact:

Amanda.palmer@kent.gov.uk  03000 416541 

Debbie.chisman@kent.gov.uk 03000 419879

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.