Senior Internal Auditor

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen at HM Land Registry (HMLR) for a Senior Internal Auditor to join our Finance and Business Services directorate. We are looking for a confident, experienced Senior Internal Auditor to play a vital role in the delivery of risk based assurance services to support HMLR’s ambition. You will support the Head of Internal Audit and your Senior Internal Audit Manager in delivering the organisation’s internal audit services, providing an assurance to the Chief Executive and Audit and Risk Committee on the effectiveness of the organisation’s governance, risk management and control frameworks.

Job description

This role will provide you with an opportunity to undertake high profile audits, and a variety of work across all parts of the organisation and contact with senior management.

You will work alongside other experienced Senior Internal Auditors, from a range of sectors and audit backgrounds, in a friendly and supportive team. There is a strong commitment to CPE and wider professional development. Your role will include:

• Conducting a range of high-profile audit assignments, in line with Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS) as directed by the Head of Internal Audit, Senior Internal Audit Manager and the Audit and Risk Committee. Reviewing and reporting on HMLR’s governance, risk management and control frameworks (including operational and developing activities) and contributing to insight-driven improvements.

• Managing your own time to deliver allocated audit engagements within agreed service levels. This will include scoping the audit activity through to feeding back the conclusions and drafting final audit reports for approval and distribution to corporate stakeholders at all levels across HMLR and the Audit and Risk Committee.

• Supporting managers throughout the organisation by responding to request for advice or help on any risk or control issues or special investigation (through membership of Boards, Panels and/or Committees) or undertaking consultancy reviews.

• Assisting the Head of Internal Audit and Senior Internal Audit Manager in the management and development of the internal audit service, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, including development of strategy, policy and procedures.

• Keeping abreast of both technical and professional developments, including maintaining Continuing professional education (CPE) requirements.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Significant recent internal audit experience demonstrating strong audit and assurance knowledge and expertise in line with GIAS; from scoping audit assignments, drafting terms of reference and testing strategies through to reporting findings, timely report delivery and following up on management actions.

• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, demonstrating ability to communicate key messages clearly and succinctly to stakeholders and senior leaders.

• Organised and able to manage your own time and resource effectively and efficiently; proactively identify, expect and take ownership of issues that could impact on delivery of your and the wider teams’ objectives and provide options or solutions ahead of deadlines.
  
  
• Strong analytical approach to information and data; collating sufficient, relevant information to support conclusions.
  
  
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, demonstrating ability to build good relationships with a variety of stakeholders at all levels in an organisation to establish and maintain respect both professionally and personally

Due to the nature of the role some travel to other HMLR offices may occasionally be required, including overnight stays.

For more information about the role and the full Person Specification, please see the attached Candidate Pack.

Please note you will be required to work a minimum of 30 hours per week in this post.

Qualifications

Candidates will need to demonstrate experience within the discipline of the professional audit/accountancy body detailed below, and have achieved at least one of the following:

Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (UK & Ireland) or overseas equivalent

• CMIIA designation (or the MIIA designation where you qualified under the previous exam route and did not apply to make this chartered).
You must hold the equivalent of the MIIA designation, if you studied overseas, you should verify this with the CIIA UK & Ireland prior to submitting your application.

Or

• Internal Audit part qualified – have passed at least CIA 1, CIA 2 and CIA 3 (or PIIA under the pre-chartered route).
Or

Accountancy

• Fully or part qualified through CCAB bodies or UK overseas equivalent.
ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS and Chartered Accountants Ireland, CIMA – at least two-thirds of required exam passes
ICAEW – passes in both the Certificate and Professional levels

You need to have obtained the required qualification at the time of submitting your application. If you are waiting to sit your exams or have not yet received your results, you are not currently eligible to apply. Please note a degree in any finance, accountancy or audit discipline does not meet qualification requirements as these do not give membership to a professional body.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £45,514, HM Land Registry contributes £13,185 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.

This role also attracts a non-pensionable allowance in addition to the base salary (£2943 for CIA or £4709 for CMIIA and up to £8245 for an accountancy qualification)

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

To apply, you will need to complete the short application form and copy and paste your CV onto the online application form detailing your qualifications and work history including experience .

You will need to complete a personal statement, of no more than 750 words, to demonstrate your experience with the below:

• Significant recent internal audit experience demonstrating strong audit and assurance knowledge and expertise in line with GIAS; from scoping audit assignments, drafting terms of reference and testing strategies through to reporting findings, timely report delivery and following up on management actions.

• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, demonstrating ability to communicate key messages clearly and succinctly to stakeholders and senior leaders.

• Organised and able to manage your own time and resource effectively and efficiently; proactively identify, expect and take ownership of issues that could impact on delivery of your and the wider teams’ objectives and provide options or solutions ahead of deadlines.

You will also need to include your level and type of qualification.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a virtual interview and complete a scenario based exercise, from week commencing 22nd June 2026. Further details will be provided on invitation to interview.

The blended interview will assess the essential experience and behaviourslisted in the Candidate Pack. Please note that we will not be testing any of the desirable criteria throughout this process.

Candidates may refer to notes within their interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage may be invited to attend an interview. If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role is in a certain business critical category. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a skilled worker visa.

You must ensure you have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying.

You can find more information on how we use your personal data on our website.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Liz Harris
• Email : Liz.Harris@landregistry.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/

Attachments

Senior Internal Auditor Job Description Opens in new window (pdf, 173kB)Candidate Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 1833kB)