Job vacancy: Senior Audit Manager - MIAA, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool

Job summary

Main area

Internal Audit

Grade

Band 8a

Contract

Permanent: Hybrid Working - Expectation to be on Client/Office Sites minimum of 3 days per week and as and when require to meet the service needs of the organisation

Hours

Full time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

Job ref

287-MIAA-13-25

Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: MIAA
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/12/2025 23:59

Senior Audit Manager - MIAA

Band 8a

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Produces, agrees, and oversees delivery of risk-based plans with allocated clients that are designed to produce sufficient assurances to fulfil the requirements of the Head of Internal Audit Opinion on the effectiveness of internal control.

Manages the planning, conduct, output, and opinions for all audit work for allocated clients within agreed deadlines, budgets, and quality standards

Operates as budget holder for allocated plans i.e., a discrete set of services, requiring the planning and organizing of complex activities and programmes to ensure income is recovered, costs contained, and outputs delivered. Often these budgeted plans need to be adjusted on an ongoing basis for reporting to Audit Committees as priorities shift.

Fully complies with all aspects of the confidentiality policy.

For further information please read job description and person specification in full.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Professional accountancy qualification (CCAB) qualified plus significant demonstrable PQE plus self-certified CPD plus experience of operating at Board level/equivalent/, presenting to Audit Committee and influencing Executive and Non-Executive Directors. OR
MIIA plus significant demonstrable PQE plus self-certified CPD for a significant period plus experience of operating at Board level, presenting to Audit Committee, and influencing Executive and Non-Executive Directors plus experience knowledge and skills/equivalent.

Desirable criteria

Professional healthcare qualification recognised by UK professional body/Quality Improvement qualification plus significant demonstrable PQE skills, knowledge, experience, and expertise

Experience

Essential criteria

Must have experience of working in audit and demonstrable understanding of audit role and techniques.
Must have experience of managing and supervising staff.

Desirable criteria

Experience of working in NHS or other public sector organization resulting in a good understanding of systems and processes is desirable for the post. Alternative experience in an equivalent organization may be acceptable.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

To demonstrate a full understanding of NHS structure, policy, functions, and systems together with the aptitude to build on that knowledge.
Must understand corporate governance, risk management and assurance principles and practice.
To demonstrate a full understanding of audit and financial principles and practice together with the aptitude to build on that knowledge.

Skills

Essential criteria

Must have excellent oral and written communication skills to enable complicated audit and financial issues to be explained to a range of NHS staff, often at a senior level. This will include presentational, negotiation and influencing skills.
Must have excellent analytical skills and have the ability to collate complex data from various sources.
Must have strong supervision, staff management, coaching and mentoring skills.
Must have the ability to negotiate and persuade, sometimes in a setting that is unresponsive or hostile to audit findings.
Must have a good level of numeracy, keyboard skills and computer literacy (ECDL or equivalent)
Must have the ability to make judgements and recommendations in the context of complex systems and risk and materiality of findings.
Must have good time management skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines whilst managing competing priorities.

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18^th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.