Senior Internal Auditor

About Us

Established in 1880, PFG is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of personal credit products to the underserved lending market. We are a FTSE 250 company that provide a portfolio of credit products designed to meet the particular needs of those who are not well serviced by mainstream lenders.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity within our Group Internal Audit function for a Senior Internal Auditor. As a Senior Internal Auditor you will work with Internal Audit Managers (IAMs) to perform audits and in doing so provide independent assurance that the Group’s key controls are adequately designed and operating effectively. On any given audit the Senior Internal Auditor will either work under an IAM or will lead the audit themselves, through the planning, fieldwork and reporting phases.

Key responsibilities include:

• Completing all allocated work in a timely manner and in line with GIA’s methodology.
• Documenting allocated work in the audit file in line with expected documentation standards.
• Conducting control testing and critically reviewing audit evidence.
• Acting on feedback / review points received during the course of audit work.
• Helping to draft key audit deliverables such as terms of reference and reports.
• Assisting in positively promoting the Internal Audit function within the business.

Skills and Experience:

• You must be able to effectively plan, organise and execute audit assignments, and engage constructively with stakeholders on an ongoing basis.

• Experience of risk-based auditing in Financial Services, either in an external or internal audit capacity, OR good experience of risk management / compliance in Financial Services.
• Good knowledge of the challenges facing the Financial Services industry and the regulatory environment.
• Results oriented ,able to deliver high quality results in an environment of changing demands, variable workloads and tight timescales.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Highly analytical, able to work with both low levels of detail and a big picture organisation wide perspective and think critically.

Why choose a career with us?
We like to let our employees know that we appreciate their hard work by offering competitive salaries and a range of reward schemes as well as regular performance management reviews and appraisals so that you can monitor your career progress. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salary & rewards
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days holiday entitlement (increases with length of service)
• Pension scheme
• Extensive opportunities for personal and career development
• Flexible and dynamic working policies

Inclusion & Diversity statement
We know that by having a better, more inclusive culture and a diverse group of colleagues, we can support our customers and each other in the best way possible. We also believe this goes a long way to helping us live our purpose and defines why we are here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we want people to join us no matter how they identify, their sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.
We want to attract and retain the best people. So, we make sure that, if people need it, they are given all the extra support and reasonable adjustments to take part in any part of our application or interview process. We have also got lots of colleagues who choose to work flexibly, so please feel free to talk to us about how you prefer to work at any time.
We think that if you can be yourself in the workplace, you will do your best work and enjoy being part of the team. And as a business we get to benefit from that and to celebrate all the wonderful things that diversity brings.