IT Audit Specialist

Contract type:
Permanent

Location:

London or Newcastle offices. Our ways of working include a mix of time at your assigned office, time at client sites across the UK as required and working from home. We have a minimum requirement of attending in person for 2 days a week at NAO or client offices, increasing during busier periods.
Salary:
Starting: £69,017 p.a. (London) or £61,967 p.a. (Newcastle) plus Civil Service Pension. A higher base salary may be available for an exceptional candidate.
Nationality Requirements:

• UK nationals

• Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

• Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with (or eligible for) status under the European Union Settlement Scheme
(EUSS)
Please note, we are not able to sponsor work visas.

How to Apply

Please upload a CV and a one page covering letter outlining your interest and suitability for the role.
Please do not wait until the Final date to receive applications as the hiring team with be conducting ongoing interviews up to the. Final stage interviews will likely take place w/c 3 and w/c 10 August 2026. We reserve the right to have canddiates complete a technical assessment should the process require it.
Main purpose of the job
The National Audit Office (NAO) supports parliament to hold government to account and to improve public services. We focus on driving long-term sustainable improvement in public service delivery and work with government and our stakeholders to deliver better performance. In a nutshell, we help the nation spend wisely.
The clients of the NAO are investing in IT systems to address the challenges they face in fulfilling their role. This includes investing in new finance systems and related support systems. These investments mean that, increasingly, the NAO s financial audits are relying on automated controls / IT dependent manual controls and supporting IT general controls, necessitating increased requirements for IT Audit to support the NAO s audits of financial statements.
The IT Audit specialist will be joining an IT audit team of 21 including other IT Audit Specialists, IT Audit Managers and Trainees to deliver work across multiple clients covering all areas of the NAO s financial audit client base.
The team is led by an IT Audit Director and five IT Senior Audit Managers.
We require an experienced IT Audit Specialist capable of supporting financial audit teams and IT Audit Managers to scope, plan and perform the hands-on delivery of all end to end IT audit work required for a client, including testing automated and supporting General IT Controls.
We also require the candidate to be involved in other internal aspects of our IT audit practice work, including the development of practice material e.g. work programmes, guidance material etc.
Given the likely engagements on which they will work, it would be helpful for the candidate to have experience in some or all of the following areas:

• SAP finance systems (including ECC and S/4 HANA);

• Oracle finance systems (including eBS and Fusion);

• Active Directory; and

• System migrations.
On non-client work:

• Given that there are a range of tasks that the candidate could be asked to work on, the candidate must have the skills and experience to be able to move from a client focussed IT audit testing role to an internal material development role.

• As the candidate will be engaging directly with and producing client facing and internal facing written material, they must have strong verbal communication and report writing skills.
The preferred candidate is likely to be an experienced Senior Consultant or equivalent, with experience of IT audit work, close to promotion to a managerial role, and is capable of working independently and taking ownership of the day to day delivery of all end to end IT audit work.
Responsibilities / Relationships:
Introduction
Key responsibilities will be supporting the IT Senior Audit Managers and IT Audit Managers in the scoping, planning and delivery of the annual programme of IT audit work. Depending on the level of experience of the candidate, some management of specific IT audit engagements may be…