Locations: East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber. This position is based nationally.
Closing Date: 21 May 2025.
Interviews: From 03 June 2025
Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £47,657 - £52,040; National: £41,463 - £45,276
Working pattern: Full time, Part time, flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We are recruiting an Internal Audit Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategy & Operations team.
The Finance, Assurance, Compliance & Transformation Team supports wider Justice Digital in managing its financial processes and tracking spend. We are responsible for centralised responses to commissions (requests for information) both internal and external to the MoJ, as well as working closely with the Justice Digital Senior Leadership Team to maximise opportunities to deliver on our strategic objectives. We also work with the Cabinet Office and the Central Digital & Data Office to ensure that all spending is compliant with cross-government standards and controls and that we adhere to MoJ and cross-government standards.
The Digital Compliance Team supports Justice Digital and the wider Ministry of Justice in providing a consistent approach to Digital & Technology delivery.
The team is comprised of four functions:
- Business Continuity - the Business Continuity Team is in place to help delivery teams to build, test, and obtain sign off for their business continuity plans.
- Audit - the Audit Team provides a service to Justice Digital, providing a consistent response to external audit requests and ensuring Justice Digital is running as efficiently as possible.
- Digital Assurance - the Digital Assurance Team provides an interface between CDDO & Justice Digital and manages all Digital & Technology Spend Approval for the whole of the Ministry of Justice.
- Standards - the Standards Team provide a one stop shop for Justice Digital on Government functional, digital and technology standards, ensuring that all digital and technology standards are applied consistently.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
About the role
Improving assurance services is the primary objective of any internal auditing department. The Internal Audit Manager will play a key role in improving the governance, risk management and control services within Justice Digital, by providing objective, risk-based assessments on key areas within the wider department.
The successful candidate will support the creation and implementation of a defined digital audit strategy for Justice Digital.
Key Responsibilities
- Accountable for planning and delivering internal audit services within Justice Digital.
- Accountable for providing internal audit reports and communicating key findings to senior sponsors.
- Responsible for delivering services in accordance with internal audit standards and principles.
- Planning and conducting audit engagements linked to strategic objectives or risks to the department.
- Supporting the Lead Auditor in developing and delivering against the Digital Audit Strategy and Internal Audit Plan.
- Oversee the implementation of professional internal audit standards and principles within the Digital Audit Team.
- Providing Management Assurance related to the Digital Audit Team objectives, including driving the completion of corrective action plans.
- Improving the governance, risk management and control practices within Justice Digital.
- Represent the Digital Compliance Team at relevant stakeholder events, including speaking engagements and workshops.
- Proactively develop areas of sectoral and technical expertise, ensuring that engagements benefit from the latest guidance and best practice.
- Support Justice Digital's values, strategy and business plan, and the development of Good Practice products and services, by undertaking and sharing relevant research and intelligence.
- Maintain corporate and departmental records management standards including the timely and accurate filing of documents and correspondence, and the completion of relevant logs and plans designed to monitor department activities.
- Comply with the MoJ's information governance policies and procedures and in particular those relating to information security.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Benefits
- 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
- A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
- Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
- Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
- 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings' birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
- Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
- Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
- Bike loans up to £2,500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
- Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
- 5 days volunteering paid leave.
- Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
- Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.
Essential criteria
- Experience in Internal Audit or a similar analytical function with experience in using data analytics and agile techniques
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Effective decision making and the ability to manage conflicting priorities and deadlines.
- The ability to create bespoke reports and deliver recommendations to Senior Leaders.
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
