Senior Financial Auditor - Programme Assurance

Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, age, or disability or union membership status.

About Us

Our teams are putting the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We provide services to partner clients globally via our innovative advanced robotics technology, known as the Ocado Smart Platform ("OSP"), this drives our highly automated, multi-million pound Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs). In our CFCs - together with the proprietary software applications - we operate a world-class online grocery business that automates the single pick of products, ready for your online delivery.

About the role

As a trusted advisor, the Senior Financial Auditor will be responsible for providing independent, value-added audit and advisory services across Ocado Group. This role will focus primarily on financial audits but will also involve training and development to contribute to programme assurance audits, supporting the evaluation of business risks, governance, and internal control frameworks. The role will support the Internal Audit team to deliver independent assessments in line with the Internal Audit plan. You will be expected to develop expertise in programme audits over time.  You will have an opportunity to demonstrate your increasing knowledge and understanding of programme assurance and IT risk, control and compliance requirements to provide practical control improvements through the course of your work.

Accountabilities

Audit Planning & Delivery

• Plan, lead and deliver audit reviews in accordance with the Internal Audit Plan.
• Assess audit results and provide assurance on the effectiveness of financial controls, identifying risks and recommending improvements.
• Conduct risk-based testing of processes and procedures to evaluate internal control frameworks.
• Work alongside Programme Assurance Auditors to develop expertise in programme and project governance audits.
• Provide insights into financial reporting, compliance, and governance risks across the business.
• Ensure external auditors document audit work to a high standard to enable reliance.
• Embed a strong risk management and control culture across the business while maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders.
• Use data analytics to support audits and deliver insights that are more efficient.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation, with a focus on Finance, Technology, Operations and external auditors.
• Support the team in raising awareness and embedding strong risk management, control and compliance requirements across the organisation. 
• ​​Support in maintaining a collaborative audit function that integrates financial, operational, and programme assurance reviews.
• Communicate to managers about the progress of work and any significant issues that may arise.
• Effectively communicate audit issues and related recommendations in both technical and non-technical terms to all levels of the business.
• To ensure work is completed to a high standard (through guidance) which enables external auditors to place reliance on the work performed by Internal Audit.  
• Present findings and recommendations clearly and persuasively to senior management and the Audit Committee (as required).

 Continuous Development

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Internal Audit and the advancement of audit scope and methodology (process and tooling) and keep up to date with regulatory changes.
• Stay informed on emerging financial and regulatory trends to proactively address risks.
• Assist in driving efficiency and effectiveness in the Internal Audit function.

About you 

• Be able to demonstrate at least 5 years previous audit experience of performing risk based audits across Financial and Operational audit areas.
• Be a fully qualified accountant (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with post qualification experience in audit. 
• Strong understanding of financial reporting, risk management and internal controls. 

 Preferred

• Understanding of project governance, programme assurance or project management principles. 
• Ideal candidates may also hold the following types of IT audit/security related qualifications or similar  e.g. CISA, CISSP.

• Experience in auditing financial processes both operational and commercial finance.

• Desire to study and further develop skills.
• Familiarity with collaboration tools such as Slack or JIRA.
• Experience integrating technology and data analytics into audit methodologies.

What we offer you

Our employee benefits are designed for you, we care about people and we’ve ensured we have a wealth of benefits that focus on your well-being. We regularly review our benefits to ensure we are supporting our employees appropriately.

• 30 days ‘working from anywhere in the world’ policy
• Wellbeing support through dedicated apps and an Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after 5 years service (plus optional holiday purchase)
• Pension scheme (various options available including employer contribution matching up to 7%)
• Generous Private Medical Insurance (within the first month of joining!)
• Income Protection (can be up to 50% of salary for 3 years) and Life Assurance (3 x annual salary)
• 22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete)
• Train Ticket loan (interest-free)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free shuttle bus to and from Hatfield Train Station to the Hatfield offices
• Free shuttle bus to and from Welwyn Garden City Train Station to the Welwyn Garden City offices
• Opportunity to participate in Sharesave and Buy as You Earn share schemes
• 15% discount on Ocado.com and free delivery for all employees (within the first month of joining!)

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