Description
The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is driven by its unparalleled access across government to build ‘better insights, better outcomes’ for our clients.
This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government.
The Agency’s unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully, and continue developing professionally.
As Director of Transformation and Assurance, you will lead GIAA’s strategic shift towards a more DDaT-focused approach to assurance, ensuring technology, data and digital risks are reflected effectively in audit planning and delivery.
Key responsibilities include:
- Shaping and delivering a compelling approach to technology-related risk and assurance
- Building GIAA’s specialist capability and capacity
- Positioning GIAA as a trusted adviser to senior digital and technology leaders
- Harnessing insight from specialist assurance work to identify cross-government themes and emerging risks
- Playing a leading role on GIAA’s Executive Committee
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their knowledge, experience, capability and behavioural approach to a high standard against the following key criteria:
- A strong track record of leading/consulting/advising on significant technology-led transformation within large or complex organisations
- Significant senior leadership experience relevant to digital, data and technology
- Robust strategic and commercial acumen gained in large scale and complex environments
- A thorough understanding of risk, control and assurance frameworks
- A proven track record in building organisational capability to respond to evolving technology risks and controls
- A proven ability to communicate complex technology and risk issues clearly
Alongside your salary of £105,000, Government Internal Audit Agency contributes £30,418 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Benefits include:
- Competitive salaries and in-year rewards
- Flexible working
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Discount on big brands
- Volunteering days
- Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Schemes
- Free eyesight tests
- Family-friendly HR policies
- 25 days’ annual leave increasing by one day per year of service to 30 days after 5 years’ service