Senior Internal Auditor

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

We have an exciting opportunity to join Centrica's growing Internal Audit team!

The great news is, you don't need to have previous Internal Audit experience either. This is an opportunity to develop and learn new skills, and further your career!

Ideally, we're looking for someone from an operational role with a solid understanding of asset management and how the business works. The right person would, supported by our friendly team, blend operational experience with our audit approach to help improve Centrica and share best practice.

Do you have passion for, and experience in managing and/or operating assets… Do you have a good understanding of the risks facing operational asset focused businesses… Do you have strong analytical skills and an eye for detail... Do you have an ambition to learn, whilst getting great exposure to senior management and working across a variety of strategically important areas…

Look no further, keep reading below.

• Location: UK Flexible

• Travel: Limited travel to the relevant Centrica sites to facilitate planning, understanding and delivery of audit portfolio

What You'll Be Doing...

• As part of a team, contribute to delivering individual audits, and the associated reports, in order to provide assurance to the Audit Committee, and to business management. This will involve, identifying risk, checking the effectiveness of risk mitigation and recommending practical and value adding improvements; sharing best practise and celebrating outstanding performance

• Application of experience, initiative, judgement to business operations reviewed in audits

• Appropriate use of escalation to produce high quality deliverables

• Contribute to departmental initiatives e.g., enhancing root cause analysis

• Deliver audit assignments to schedule and the required quality standards

• Appropriate use of escalation to produce high quality deliverables

What We Need from You...

• Understanding of risk within an operational asset environment

• Analytical with strong attention to detail and the ability to propose practical actions

• Effective communicator in both written and verbal communications, including being able to tailor communications to a variety of stakeholders

• Capable in manipulating data to drive audit insight and efficiency using various tools including Microsoft Excel and PowerBI

• Able to understand, identify and articulate risks and controls in relation to a wide range of asset related project and operations and to be able to apply our audit approach to assessing these, (with appropriate training where necessary)

• Robust and independent mindset with the confidence to raise issues appropriately

• Able to work effectively as part of a team to deliver to tight deadlines

• Ambitious with a genuine passion for broadening their knowledge of auditing, risk management and controls

Work Experience and Education

• Experience of risk, controls, compliance and/or internal audit all advantageous

• Degree qualified preferable, however relevant work experience in an operational role would be extremely valuable in this role and therefore we encourage applications from individuals with operational experience in asset management and/or asset projects

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.