Assistant Auditor

Job Description

Assistant Auditor
Circa £31,050 dependent on skills and experience
Permanent, full time (37 hours) with flexibility for part time
Huntingdon / Peterborough
2x positions available

Dive into a world of opportunity and join our team!

The Quality, Environment & Assurance Assistant Auditor supports the Assurance Team in delivering audits across Anglian Water Services, contributing to business resilience and compliance. You’ll assist with Quality Management Systems, legislative, process and supplier audits, and support the delivery of external certification audits.

You’ll gather and analyse data, prepare audit reports, and present findings to support continual improvement and regulatory compliance. This role combines assurance coordination, corrective action management, and hands on support during internal and external audits, playing a key part in ensuring the smooth and efficient delivery of our assurance programmes.

Key responsibilities

• Assist auditors in conducting thorough audits across Quality, Environmental, Process and Supplier areas.

• Support the population and preparation of the internal and external assurance programmes, including scheduling audits and coordinating with auditees.

• Arrange and support activity for external certification audits, including planning sessions, audit logistics, and nonconformity closure work.

• Lead the Corrective Action Verification process, ensuring actions are clearly defined, appropriate, on track, and validated in line with assurance guidance.

• Maintain and update Assurance content on SharePoint pages, ensuring information is current and approved.

• Draft and maintain documentation that supports Assurance Team programme delivery.

• Shadow auditors as part of ongoing personal development to build knowledge of assurance processes and the wider business.

• Organise monthly Assurance Team meetings and support health and safety compliance activities for the team.

• Support GDPR and data protection compliance.

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

• A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%

• Private healthcare for your peace of mind

• An annual bonus scheme

• The opportunity to volunteer in your local community

• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays

• Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)

• Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle

• Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental

• Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks

• Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave

What does it take to be successful?

• A-Level or equivalent; degree desirable.

• Awareness of risk and continuous improvement.

• Clear communicator with attention to detail.

• Analytical and logical thinker.

• Flexible, trustworthy, and team-oriented.

• Champions health, safety, and wellbeing.

• Comfortable engaging with stakeholders at all levels and managing schedules, actions, and expectations.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

If you’re organised, curious, and looking to build a career in assurance, audit, or compliance, we’d love to hear from you.

Closing date: 27th January 2026

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