Assistant Manager; Financial Audit ) Secondment​/FTC

Assistant Manager (Financial Audit Support) Secondment/Fixed Term Contract Innovation and Quality

Location : Hybrid working with offices based in Edinburgh/Glasgow/Inverness

Type of role : Fixed Term Contract (18 months up to 31 March 2028)

Salary grade : Band 2A (£53,392 to £61,029 per annum). New entrants will typically start at the band minimum

Are you a qualified auditor who thrives on innovation and driving improvement? If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join our Innovation and Quality business group whose aim is to support and elevate our people, while helping to fulfil the strategic vision of the Auditor General for Scotland and the Accounts Commission. We are recruiting for this role on an 18-month fixed term basis.

Audit Scotland provides the Auditor General and Accounts Commission with the services they need to carry out their duties. Together we ensure that the Scottish Government and public-sector bodies throughout Scotland are held to account for the proper, efficient and effective use of public money. We employ around 340 staff in a wide variety of roles, working from our main offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and through a network of regional offices across Scotland.

Our Innovation and Quality (I&Q) business group comprises four functions: professional support and learning; quality; digital audit; and organisational improvement.

• designing and developing audit approaches and methodologies adopted by ASG and PABV (Audit Scotland’s two audit delivery business groups) and producing guidance to support the application of the approaches and methodologies by audit teams
• delivering an annual programme of guidance and other outputs for all providers of the annual audit, including the appointed firms, that supplements the Code of Audit Practice
• providing support and advice via a virtual help-desk to ASG and PABV colleagues and audit staff in the firms in response to enquiries and requests for consultations to inform their judgement when undertaking their audit work
• designing and delivering a professional learning and personal development programme across the organisation
• maintaining and enhancing an online repository of technical reference material
• supporting Audit Scotland’s role as system leader for public audit in Scotland, including memberships of external groups and boards and responding to external consultations.

As a Band 2A Assistant Manager in the Professional Support and Learning function, you will report to a Band 2B Manager or Band 3 Head/Senior Manager and will assist in the effective delivery of Professional Support and Learning activities in respect of financial audit.

The main objective of the role is to apply experience, technical knowledge and professional judgement to assist in meeting the professional support and professional learning needs of financial audit colleagues, helping to design solutions, draft guidance and delivering related learning, and assisting in evaluating outcomes. Specific responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• assisting senior colleagues in designing and implementing efficient audit approaches and methodologies to be adopted by ASG that comply with professional standards and meet the objectives of the Auditor General and Accounts Commission
• drafting for review by senior colleagues clear, authoritative, and concise guidance, reports and other outputs that supplement the Code of Audit Practice and/or that support colleagues in ASG in applying the audit approaches and methodologies
• establishing and developing productive professional relationships with colleagues in other business groups and with external stakeholders, including other audit agencies
• collecting, analysing and interpreting…