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Audit Manager
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Audit Manager
Internal Audit Manager – Audit and Assurance Services
About the Role
NWSSP (NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership) offers an exciting opportunity to join our Internal Audit Team as an Internal Audit Manager.
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NHS Wales Context
After the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare landscape is evolving, presenting new and unfamiliar challenges. Internal Audit plays a critical role in ensuring NHS organisations have strong risk management, effective controls, and robust governance—equally essential for the delivery of high-quality care.
Our team of 60 skilled professionals delivers over 400 assurance reviews annually, supporting 12 Health Boards/Trusts and special health authorities in NHS Wales, budgeting in excess of £8 billion.
The Opportunity
As an Internal Audit Manager within the Specialist Services Unit, you’ll:
- Work extensively across NHS Wales organisations
- Support the development and execution of audit plans
- Oversee a portfolio of project and estates assurance projects
- Analyse and evaluate complex risks, strategies, governance, and assurance processes related to:
- Financial management
- Quality & Safety Arrangements
- Service provision
Uniquely, we’ve recently been supported by the NHS Wales Civil Service Academy with an external quality assurance evaluation, confirming an outstanding service. Yet we continue to seek further improvement and strive for excellence in internal audit.
What You’ll Need
Qualifications & Knowledge (Essential)
- A CCAB-qualified accountant or MIIA-qualified auditor, with substantial post qualification experience, or equivalent.
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) evidence.
- Comprehensive expertise in:
- Public Sector Internal Audit Standards
- Risk Management & Assurance Frameworks
- Corporate Governance
- Controls Assurance
- Control Frameworks
- Stewardship & Probity
- Healthcare Standards
Advantageous (Welsh/NHS Financial Especialisation)
- Knowledge of healthcare systems
- Awareness of NHS financial processes
- Familiarity with capital project development & estates assurance requirements
Experience (Essential)
- Extensive professional experience in internal audit, public audit, or NHS service, ensuring ability to deliver and manage rigorous audits confidently.
- Proven audit management experience, including leading and developing junior team members.
- Demonstrable cross-agency audit experience, with established credibility in engagements with diverse health board or NHS client organisations.
- Staff training & development execution.
- Advanced report writing capable of delivering complex audits and crafting recommendations for effective procedural and control improvements.
- The ability to manage highly technical audit projects, including sensitive findings across businesses or risk settings.
- Familiarity with contractual frameworks (NEC, JCT, ICE, MIM).
- Experience working throughout NHS project lifecycles, including programme and estate deliverables aligned to NHS infrastructure investments.
- Experience of safeguarding sensitive audit findings in situations where resistance or unwelcoming reception from stakeholders is anticipated.
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Welsh-Specific Desirability
Skilled speakers of Welsh are highly desired (multiple competency levels: speak, read, write).
Required Skills (Essential)
- Audit planning, execution & control capability.
- Skill at creating detailed, nuanced audit plans.
- Acumen in safeguarding systems flaws and offering actionable, internal control options.
- High-pressure functionality with resilient problem-solving ability.
- Comprehensive writing & report production for internal stakeholders.
- Proficiency in:
- IT, office applications (Word, Excel, and advanced software).
- Spreadsheet modelling, data analysis, refining report recommendations into actionable insights.
- Advanced coordination and persuasion/negotiation skills.
- Analytical, comparative & unique situational capabilities for intricate environments.
- Self-directed, adaptable work culture with strong collaborate capability across multidisciplinary teams.
- Triage activation expertise to prioritise multiple audits within tight deadlines and tight resources.
- Microsoft Office capabilities in all domains (especially Word and Excel proficiency).
- Executive teamwork & multi-tasking.
- Innovative thinking that aims to evolve processes and performance—sometimes independently.
- Presentation leadership and mentor-ability to publically defend audit conclusions with intersectional teams.
Desirable French Skills
- Advanced Welsh language skills.
Professionalism & Culture Fit
- Interpersonal finesse, with CLF (Communities, Leadership, Courage) engagement.
- Seeking alignment with three pillars:
- Listening and Learning
- Working Together
- Taking Responsibility and Innovating
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NWSSP champions flexible, hybrid work, ensuring dynamic, adaptive approaches balancing:
- Ultimate assurance quality
- Important internal team connection
- Potential home office working capability.
Working with Our Organisation
Core to NWSSP’s values include equality, diversity & inclusion, viewing well-being and belonging as founding principles. Our training and environmental boundaries encourage:
- Accessible & supportive workplaces, strategically centred around solutions and initiative.
- Comprehensive benefits package, presented in greater detail via: NHS Benefits
For bespoke service, Wycisci³ Nud heimolaeth, and committed agile practices, please reach out with regular site/office access in tandem with flexibility upkeep requests.
Salary Adjustments
Effective 1 Apr 2026 (retrospective implementation in Aug 2026):
- Band 3 roles show adjustments aligning to the NHS Agenda for Change 2026-2027.
Additional Candidate Considerations
Professional attention to:
- Textual unambiguity ensuring every application subsequently aligns meaningful candidate profiles with NWSSP scale values.
- Diverse background recognition and past audit team potential evidenced.
Application Guidelines
Where professionals record professional designatory letters, these can compromise employability scrutiny. Full application standards must be verified via NWSSP work audit and verification prompting accessible sources.
Travel & Obligations
- Nationwide NHS Wales mobility policies apply; comprehensive meeting anchor points distributed across Wales—extensive travel linked between health authority areas envisioned.
Visa Status
For overseas professionals, ensure:
- Eligibility and support pathways under NHSazos Health & Care Visa frame or Skilled Worker Visa paths are met.
- Immigration Health Surcharges adherence (and routing where considered permitted)—Shortlisted candidates will reconcile initial programme pathways.
Support & Next Steps
For further engagement, reach out to:
- Huw Richards (Internal Audit Deputy) – huw.richards@wales.nhs.uk or via +44 2921501611
- Murray Gard (Internal Audit Deputy) – Murray.Gard@wales.nhs.uk or via +44 2921836470
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