Trainee Auditor

Role Responsibility

Are you looking to start or 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 for a Trainee Auditor to strengthen our Internal Audit and Counter Fraud team. 

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 to several external clients and trading companies.  

You will have:

• Degree qualification or equivalent
• A commitment and enthusiasm to study towards / complete a professional internal auditing qualification
• The ability to work well as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Experience of working effectively with colleagues
• A good level of IT literacy and experience of using Microsoft Office and business applications
• Excellent numeracy and finance skills
• The ability to manage your own workloads, whilst meeting multiple deadlines
• An understanding of the role of internal audit
• The ability to produce work to the required standard and within agreed timelines
• Experience of providing great customer service and maintaining positive client relationships
• 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 recently 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.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interviews will be held week commencing 6 September 2021.

Contact Details

For further information about the role, please contact:

frankie.smith@kent.gov.uk or russell.smith@kent.gov.uk

03000 419434                                              03000 416707

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.