Senior Auditor (Audit Services Group)

Full job description
Are you an auditor who thrives on making a difference and passionate about ensuring public services are run properly for the people of Scotland? If so, we can offer you the chance to take an exciting new step in your career with the opportunity to lead financial audit work of organisations across Scotland’s public sector including the Scottish Government, NHS bodies, councils, and colleges.

We have two Senior Auditor roles available across our Audit Services group.

Overall purpose of the role

You will conduct and manage financial audit work. You will make audit judgements and oversee the work of the team to deliver our audits to a high standard. You’ll engage with clients and stakeholders to help support improvement and focus upon what’s important.

What you will be doing

You’ll be inspiring with your ability to:

Make professional, evidence-based judgements and identify potential recommendations.
Work with colleagues to decide the breadth and depth of auditing required in proportion to the circumstances, including the audit methodology.
Take lead responsibility for planning and delivering audits or key audit areas, to time, cost and quality (depending on the size and risk-profile of the audit).
Draft clear, authoritative, concise audit outputs.
Support senior leadership in promoting our work externally.
Establish and maintain relationships with officers at audited bodies and appropriate stakeholders to support the effective delivery of audit work.
Coordinate the work of staff across the audit to manage peak period workloads.
Undertake supportive conversations with your team and positively challenge where necessary, including providing on-the-job training and coaching.
Support the development of Audit Scotland’s work programme by sharing intelligence whether based on local audit knowledge, monitoring key public sector issues or by developing stand-alone briefings.
Contribute to the management of Audit Scotland by participating in and contributing to corporate activities.
Person specification - specific knowledge and experience 

Essential:

You are a fully qualified accountant (CIPFA, ICAS, Other CCAB, or equivalent) or exam qualified and awaiting logbook completion before the end of September 2026. (S)
You have demonstrable external audit experience – preferably in a public sector environment (S)
You will have practical experience of delivering audits to time, quality and cost (i.e. tight deadlines) (S&I)
You can deal confidently, and establish good relationships, with stakeholders (S&I)
You think laterally and creatively to research and analyse complex problems (I)
You use your judgement to present balanced findings and persuasive recommendations (I&A)
You know how to bring out the best in a team (coaching/supervising/motivating to help them achieve their full potential). (S&I)
Desirable:

Experience of the public sector including knowledge of public finances and policy (S&I)
You have digital ICT audit experience. (S)
S = Shortlisting criteria I = Interview criteria A = Assessment criteria