Senior Internal Audit Manager

Job Description

Permanent

Edinburgh or Birmingham on a hybrid basis, with normally a minimum of 2 days a week working in the office and the rest working  believe that benefits both you and our business, helping ensure that you can balance a successful career with your life outside of work while maximising the value of face-to-face stakeholder engagement. You can meet and work with our colleagues in different locations as required by the audit work you undertake, and thus an appropriate level of business travel is expected with this role.

All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.

20th September 2026

Up to £100k depending on experience, plus an indicative bonus range of 30% to 60%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

As a Senior Internal Audit Manager, you will play a key leadership role within Group Internal Audit and make a real difference to Standard Life. You will provide strategic assurance and influential insight, challenging the effectiveness of the risk management, governance and the control environment, across Standard Life’s Customer, Operations and Outsourced Services Provider activities.

You will lead and develop a team of Internal Audit Managers and Auditors to deliver a portfolio of audits across Customer, Operations and Outsourced Services Providers, taking accountability for the quality, impact and timely delivery of the portfolio. You will also oversee Management Action verification. You will also support ad-hoc projects across a variety of areas, focusing on key outcomes aligned with the Group’s strategy, core social purpose and aligned to GIA’s strategic vision.

A key part of the role will be establishing influential relationships with a wide range of senior stakeholders, generating trust, providing insight and communicating complex and challenging messages effectively. You will also work with the Head of Audit to evolve the risk based audit plan.

• Proven ability to lead, coach and develop an audit team, creating an inclusive, high performing team.
• Strong leadership and resource management skills including : planning and organisation skills, balancing audit deliveries with external demands/responsibilities and managing multiple activities and priorities
• Strong strategic and commercial awareness, with the ability to understand Standard Life’s strategy and evolving risk profile. A breadth of knowledge required across the full spectrum of Customer, Operations and Outsourced Service Provider control frameworks
• Sound judgement and analytical skills with the ability to assess complex risks and controls and identify key root cause themes across varied/complex key business areas and articulating an appropriate high level control opinion to senior management.
• A strong track record of building trusted relationships and influencing at senior management level. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distil complex messages and challenge and influence at executive and senior management level and at senior governance and board committees.
• The ability to lead effectively through change, make timely decisions and balance competing stakeholder and delivery priorities. Demonstrable ability to adapt and deliver in a fast-moving complex and changing environment

Professionally qualified (or working towards a…