Lead Auditor - Provider Audit Team

Lead Auditor – Provider Audit Team

Location:

Bristol or London (regular travel to Bristol)

Salary: £68,720 – £72,004 plus London weighting £3,566 (where appropriate)

Posted 6 days ago – Job Requisition : R0001416

The Lead Auditor role is based in the Provider Audit Team, which delivers an assurance programme aimed at ensuring risks are anticipated and addressed, including risks relating to provider data and other key operational processes. The OfS’s regulatory approach utilises data obtained from higher education providers, so it is important data is fit for this purpose.

You will work alongside the Head of Provider Audit to develop and deliver an annual programme of work, deputise as required as line and activity manager for the Provider Audit Team, and coach and support team members to perform to a high standard. You will be responsible for overseeing audits and reviews of data accuracy and exploring how key processes impacting on students are designed and implemented, contributing to the OfS’s approach to regulating providers’ compliance with our regulatory expectations.

You will lead on the more complex audits undertaken by the team, work closely with staff at providers, and report findings to providers and colleagues at the OfS. The role involves regular travel to providers across England, including overnight stays.

You’ll have worked in internal audit as a manager overseeing the delivery of audits and developing effective approaches to audit. Other similar roles managing assessments of the effectiveness of systems and processes, or compliance, may also demonstrate appropriate experience. You’ll be experienced in assessing risks and designing innovative approaches to testing these, and to changing your approach when necessary to ensure you can reach a robust audit opinion.

• Experience in designing, managing and conducting exercises to test compliance and / or the effectiveness of systems and processes, such as internal audits, similar assurance work or investigations.
• Excellent numerical and data literacy skills. Experience working with data and an ability to understand new data definitions.
• A proven ability to communicate complex technical issues both verbally and in writing. Experience in reporting findings from audits or similar exercises and effectively tailoring communications to different audiences.
• Experience of planning the work of a team, including responding to emerging and changing priorities.
• Experience of working with a range of stakeholders and managing potential conflict while maintaining effective working relationships.
• Line management experience and experience in coaching staff.

• An understanding of regulation and / or the higher education sector.
• Experience of contributing towards investigations or similar activities.

There are 4 online application questions to complete, alongside providing a copy of your CV.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you through the application stage, please contact us at recruitmentt and we will be happy to help.

The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience, and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do. We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Flexibility is important to the OfS, as we recognise that it can enable people to work more effectively. A set of organisation‑wide principles shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working, which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two or three days in a typical week.

To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants, flexible working, for example job share and part‑time working (with a minimum 0.8 FTE), apply to this role.

Closing date for applications:
Monday 26 January erviews: from week commencing Monday 9 February. As part of the interview process, candidates will be asked to prepare and give a short presentation. For information: the OfS does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker Sponsor Licence.