Senior Auditor

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Join a high-performing Audit and Assurance team at the heart of the BBC. We deliver impactful audits that shape the organisation and focus on the BBC's most significant risks. Highly regarded across the Group, our work drives strategic decisions and supports continuous improvement. If you're passionate about making a difference, influencing change, and working where your insights matter, this is your opportunity to be part of a team that truly makes an impact.

BBC Audit and Assurance sits within BBC's Quality, Risk & Assurance division which aims to keep the BBC safe, secure and well run.

The Senior Auditor, supported by an Audit Manager, plays a key role in delivering recognised excellence in the provision of independent, impartial advice and assurance on business risks and controls.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Do you want to join a team where your work truly makes a difference? At the BBC, our Audit and Assurance team thrives on a great team culture, where collaboration, support, and innovation are at the core. No two days are the same as we tackle the BBC's biggest risks and help shape its future. It's a fantastic place to work-diverse, dynamic, and driven by purpose-within a world-renowned organisation that values integrity, impact, and continuous improvement.

Our Audit and Assurance team ensures that the BBC's strategic and operational risks are understood and effectively managed. Its remit is the entire BBC Group, including commercial subsidiaries and overseas locations. Audit and Assurance, via the Director of Audit and Assurance, maintains an independent reporting line to the BBC Audit and Risk Committee.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

As Senior Auditor, you will:

• Prepare detailed audit testing plans that focus on key risks. This will involve gathering information by meeting people at all levels across the BBC.
• Carry out rigorous audit testing, flexing work plans in response to findings and emerging risks.
• Acknowledge issues, impacts, root causes and recommendations with management throughout the course of audit assignments.
• Act as an advocate for internal control, sharing expertise within the team and encouraging best practice behaviours across the business.
• Write clear, concise, robust and balanced audit reports.
• Maintain knowledge of the BBC strategy, external and organisational risk environment and business changes to help inform audit approach and activity.
• Support on departmental systems and reporting for the Audit and Assurance function, including Audit and Risk Committee reporting and action follow up.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

We are looking for the ability and confidence to deliver a range of audit activity under high quality standards and demanding deadlines in a complex environment.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Successful applicants will be fully qualified with at least one of the following professional qualifications:
  • • Qualified Accountant through a recognised professional body (e.g. ACA, ACCA, ACMA)
    • Chartered Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (UK)
    • Certified Information Systems Auditor
• Ability to negotiate and work alongside a range of contacts including senior management and the motivation and energy to actively promote control improvements.
• Proven recent internal auditing experience.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and in writing, and proven ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
• Proficient in excel and data analysis.

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time.

DEPARTMENT: Audit and Assurance, Quality Risk and Audit Assurance, BBC Chief Operating Group

LOCATION: London or Birmingham. Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of two days per week in the office (please note this is the current requirement, and may change in future).

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £50,000 - £60,000 (plus London Weighting £5,441pa if London based), depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Information at a Glance This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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