Internal Audit Manager
Finance
- Vacancy type: Full-Time Permanent
- Closing date: 05/06/2025
- Salary: £55,000+ depending on experience
About the role
As Edinburgh Airport continues to grow so too does the need to continuously improve internal controls, systems and processes and provide ongoing assurance to the Executive Team, Board of Directors, Audit and Risk Committee and other key stakeholders. Edinburgh Airport welcomed a new strategic investment partnership between Global Infrastructure Partners and VINCI Airports in June 2024, reinforcing the need for ongoing assurance, controls improvement and risk management.
Edinburgh Airport has decided to enhance its current risk and assurance activities through the recruitment of an Internal Audit Manager who will support the Head of Risk and Assurance with the ongoing assurance and risk management agenda. This is an excellent opportunity to support the business shape and define its internal controls under the new ownership structure and through a period of continued growth.
This is a broad and visible role that requires an individual of the highest calibre. The position will require extensive interaction with all facets of the business and demands a ‘can-do’ individual who is comfortable autonomously leading assurance reviews and presenting key findings and recommendations to senior management.
This role is more than ensuring compliance with basic internal control standards. It is about helping the business understand the value of best-in-practice risk management activities and providing commercial and actionable insights. The role captures a spectrum of internal control assurance activities, process improvement and risk management activities across all business disciplines. There may also be an opportunity to support the wider VINCI network with their assurance agenda, delivering assurance reviews to other VINCI airports.
Edinburgh Airport offers an excellent opportunity for an ambitious professional to develop their career in a fast paced and challenging environment.
About the Recruitment Process
The recruitment process for this role will be comprised of two in person interviews. You’ll get the chance to meet some of the key internal audit stakeholders, and we will ask you to complete a presentation/task at one of the stages – we will confirm the format on invite to interview.
You can find out more about our interview process and the type of questions we may ask here.
What you’ll be doing
Reporting to the Head of Risk and Assurance you will be responsible for:
- Designing and delivering the annual programme of assurance reviews
- Working autonomously to lead and deliver assurance reviews, with a focus on root cause analysis and value-add recommendations
- Communication – written and verbal – of key findings and recommendations for improvement at the conclusion of each assurance review to the relevant business stakeholders
- Providing support to the business to ensure agreed audit actions are concluded in a timely manner
- Preparing reports outlining the delivery of the assurance programme, key messages / findings and tracking of open issues to the Audit and Risk Committee
- Oversight and instruction of any outsourced specialist internal audit work to ensure timely delivery and maintenance of quality standards
- Working with the Head of Risk & Assurance to continuously improve and evolve internal audit methodology, processes and procedures, providing support to the Head of Risk and Assurance on other risk management activities, including enterprise risk management and insurance
- Proactively engaging with Internal Audit networks to identify developments and trends which could enhance the provision of assurance at Edinburgh Airport
- This role requires the successful candidate to obtain a Counter Terrorist Check, so you must have been living in the UK for the last 3 consecutive years
- Have a strong technical background in either internal or external audit
- Have a strong awareness of best practice approaches to risk management and internal controls, ideally in a similar fast-paced and complex business environment
- Preferably be CA/IIA qualified, and have either trained with an accountancy practice or in an industry environment
- Have excellent attention to detail, analytical and problem-solving skills combined with business acumen and pragmatism
- Be able to build relationships at all levels, including with senior stakeholders
- Take responsibility for decision making and be able to influence current thinking to drive positive change
- Have highly developed verbal, written and presentation skills
- Be a motivated ‘self-starter’ who can work autonomously and flexibly, whilst also enjoying working collaboratively when required
- Be able to prioritise and plan your workload to meet deadlines, adapting to additional requests or emerging risks when required
- Pension scheme- employer contributions can be up to 7%
- 32 days holiday, based on full time roles, increasing with service
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Supporting your health and wellbeing- private healthcare after 1 years’ service, access to our Employee Assistance Programme and occupational health services
- Free car parking on site and when you go on holiday
- We offer a range of other benefits, find out more here
Why EDI?
We are Edinburgh Airport, where Scotland meets the world. The success of the airport comes down to our people, and you can help us deliver even more big days for our passengers and colleagues. The development of your career is important to us, and we’ll support and encourage this every step of the way. As a business we’re driven by our values – they’re at the core of our culture and everything we do. We’re looking for people who will demonstrate these values day-in, day-out. So if this sounds like you, apply now and get ready for your career to take off.
Building a diverse workforce that is inclusive and accessible to all is a priority for our business. As part of this journey, we are proud to be the first UK airport to be endorsed by WORK180. They only recognise great employers for all women. Find out about our policies on our WORK180 employer page.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring applicants with a disability can participate fully in our recruitment process. Please let us know in your application form if you require any adjustments, such as parking arrangements or alternative methods of communication.