Audit Manager

Anglian Water

Circa £65k, salary depending on skills and experience

Full time/37 hrs a week/permanent

Location: Thorpe Wood House, Peterborough

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough.

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We are currently looking for an Audit Manager to join the team. This key role will be reporting directly to the Commercial Assurance Manager, within Anglian Water’s Commercial and Delivery Assurance Team, leading on our assurance plan and activities across the entire Capital Investment Programme at a Partner, Alliance and Client level.

An aim of the role is to provide independent assurance that our Capital Investment Programme is delivering work in accordance with our obligations and expectations and operating effectively. You will be implementing assurance plans, undertaking assurance/audits to identify, assess, enhance and develop controls over key risks over the Capital Investment Programme.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop and Implement assurance expectations, ensuring they are maintained, updated, and monitored across the Capital Investment Programme.

• Develop and implement annual assurance plans, across the Capital Investment Programme.

• Develop and perform appropriate testing strategies to assess the design and effectiveness of key controls, identify control improvements and write succinct reports that effectively communicate the key audit findings and make appropriate recommendations to address the control issues identified.

• Responsible for regular and ad-hoc reporting of assurance activities, with clear identification of non-compliance, risk and recommendations

• Responsible for providing regular targeted monthly reports in relation to the progress and performance of the Assurance Contracts

• Identify areas of effective/ineffective and efficient/ inefficient performance and develop a plan that will share this learning or provide support to resolve non-compliance.

• Work with the various stakeholders to introduce and establish computer based auditing tools and systems to promote smart assurance and develop bespoke assurance tools where required.

• Instil an environment that positively encourages the integrated teams to make the correct decisions and choices in line with the governance processes, structures and agreements in place that will achieve all requirements of the assurance contracts.

• Liaison with stakeholders to agree and follow-up on findings/recommendations arising from assurance activities.

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%

• Personal private health care

• Annual bonus scheme

• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion

• Life Cover at 8x your salary

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

What does it take to be successful?

• Experience of working within a fast paced, diverse, matrixed environment

• Experience of undertaking and concluding audits

• Experience of working with senior stakeholders, internal and external

• Experience of working in the Water Industry or Utilities sector a distinct advantage

• Accountancy or audit qualification

• Educated to degree level or has relevant business experience

• Commercially focussed

• Ability to deal with high levels of complexity and ambiguity

• Logical thinker with strong numeracy skills

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community’s Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.

Closing date: 01/01/2024