Senior Audit Manager

We are recruiting for a Senior Audit Manager within our Audit Services Group on a fixed term contract for 23 months. In this role, you’ll inspire, guide and empower your team to deliver high‑quality audit work across a varied and dynamic portfolio. You’ll use your professional expertise to make complex audit judgements, lead discussions on key risks and issues, and influence thinking at the highest levels across the public sector.

If you’re passionate about public audit, excited by complex challenges, and ready to lead with purpose, we’d love to hear from you. This is a fantastic chance to broaden your experience, step into a strategic leadership role, and make a real impact.

What you will be doing

As one of our senior members of staff, you’ll be inspiring our people to make Audit Scotland a world-class public sector audit organisation with your ability to:

• provide effective leadership, build capacity and resilience in the team and motivate, support and encourage people to achieve their full potential
• deliver a range of reports and other outputs and present findings at the highest client and stakeholder level, including the Scottish Parliament, Accounts Commission, local audit committees and conferences
• undertake significant risk-based decision making, using considerable judgement about the quantity and depth of research, investigation and auditing required in proportion to the circumstances and communicating this to the team
• constructively challenge and test team judgements and conclusions, adding value from a strategic perspective
• develop and maintain a wider view of the external environment to understand any developments that could affect the context of the audit in the medium to longer-term and develop appropriate audit activity for the dynamic work programme
• ensure work is properly resourced in terms of people, abilities and knowledge and communicate this to the team, taking responsibility for significant audit budgets across a range of clients
• conduct an ongoing review of the team’s work to ensure that it is delivered to time, quality and budget
• take lead responsibility in identifying, developing and maintaining relationships with key staff at the highest levels within client and stakeholder organisations
• have responsibility for quality and accountability for the approval of audit work
• embrace and promote best practice and share it across the organisation to improve quality
• influence organisational culture and contribute to the overall management of Audit Scotland, by participating in and contributing to and leading on corporate activities.

Your portfolio will include financial audit work across a range of public sector bodies. In addition, our Senior Audit Managers are increasingly expected to be involved in key aspects of our dynamic programme of performance audits.