Overview
Senior Internal Audit Manager
Job Tenure: Full-time, permanent
Salary: Competitive
Company Description
Here at esure, we’re no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we’re getting ready for more. It’s creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.
Job Description
Due to our expanding team, we have an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Audit Manager to support and act on behalf of the CAO in providing objective assurance around the efficiency of the organisation’s governance, risk and systems of internal control to Executive Management, Board and Audit Committee.
The day to day:
- Act as CAO proxy, attending key meetings and presenting IA reports to GE.
- Assist CAO in evolving the wider team to align with new IIA standards and industry changes.
- Improve Internal Audit's reputation and value within esure under CAO mentorship.
- Conduct and oversee sophisticated audits, ensuring findings align with esure's risk tolerance.
- Lead focused, risk-based assurance activities.
- Manage co-sourced relationships and ensure quality delivery from external auditors.
- Mentor and support Internal Audit team members.
- Cultivate relationships with business partners and challenge for governance improvement.
- Utilize SMEs and governance processes to advise audit assignments.
- Produce clear, insightful audit reports tailored to recipients.
- Follow up on audit actions and assess efficiency of closures.
- Improve team's data analytics capabilities.
- Develop esure's internal audit methodology, procedures, and standards.
- Offer support and insight on internal controls and governance to the organization.
- Scope, plan, complete and report on individual reviews with minimal involvement of the CAO.
- Determine the scope, areas for focus, sampling technique and size.
Qualifications
Qualifications
we'd love you to have:
- Ideally have a relevant qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIA.
- Demonstrably strong internal audit experience at a senior level in financial services.
- Significant experience of communicating and forming strong relationships with C-suite executives
- Ability to step up and deputise for CAO
- Strong understanding of business systems, processes and controls
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to interpret and translate complex issues and produce high quality reports
- Good judgement with proven track record to determine pragmatic, appropriate and proportionate recommendations
- Good knowledge and understanding of regulatory frameworks, industry trends and standard process
- Provide effective and robust challenge to business and members of the IA team (including CAO)
Additional Information
Why choose us?
This is your opportunity to be at the forefront of our game-changing journey and be part of something truly special! And to top it off, here are some perks to life at esure…
- A competitive salary that recognises your skills and potential
- A bonus scheme that celebrates your contribution to esure’s success
- Discounts on our insurance products, for you and your family
- 28 days annual leave, plus 8 flex days to be taken as and when suits you
- Benefits just for you: our hub – My Benefits Box – is loaded with perks to choose from, so you can build a personal toolkit to support your health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and finances.
- Grow your career with us: whatever your goals, we’ll support you with hands-on training, mentoring, a LinkedIn Learning licence, access to our exclusive Academies, regular career conversations, and expert partner resources from the likes of Women in Data and Women in Tech.
- Join our communities: our networks give you the chance to connect, learn and share with like-minded colleagues across the business – for work and play. So, it’s no surprise our people consistently rate ‘making friends at work’ one of the highest scorers in our colleague engagement survey
- More flexibility for you: we’re a proud supporter of the ABI’s Make Flexible Work campaign and welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need, whether it’s part time, job sharing, or compressed hours. Our hybrid working approach also puts you in the driving seat of how and where you do your best work.
- Live a healthy lifestyle: we offer lots of support, so you feel like the best version of yourself – like specialist advice through our employee assistance programme, wellbeing classes, access to the My Health Advantage app, our Big Team Challenge, and learning sessions on topics like menopause.
- A helping hand to do your bit for a greener and safer world: driving good in the world couldn’t be more important to us. That’s why we encourage colleagues to use volunteering days to support their local communities and have lots of initiatives to help you live a greener lifestyle.
- Everyday appreciation: praise from your colleagues means the world! Our social recognition tool makes it easy to give colleagues the praise they deserve, and you could even be shortlisted for a company-wide ACE Award.
We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.
