Company Overview

Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services to organisations of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.    The businesses we partner with want to make things happen. And they need people to do it. They have goals. They have challenges. They want answers.   We deliver the talent solutions they need to reach their goals. That might mean recruiting a permanent, temporary, or interim professional. It might mean putting together an outsourced team of 30 recruitment experts. Or it might mean reframing the way they think about remuneration or diversity.     Whatever the solution, we deliver better experiences and higher quality outcomes by taking the time to listen to, and fully connect with, the people and organisations we partner with. Our ability to truly understand them and share their compelling stories is what sets us apart.   By engaging with people’s stories, we help organisations find the skills and solutions to succeed and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential.  

About the job

A leading property development company, specialising in brownfield regeneration and creating sustainable, nature-rich communities across London. This role offers the opportunity to work on diverse projects, from Central London developments to Southern Counties restorations. The successful candidate will have the chance to contribute to a culture rooted in attention to detail, effective communication, innovation, sustainability, and customer satisfaction.

What You’ll Do

As an Internal Auditor, your role will be pivotal in ensuring the robustness of our client’s control environment. You will be responsible for providing assurance to Divisional and Operating Company Boards through challenging, reviewing, testing and improving processes and controls. Your ability to undertake targeted audits will be crucial in supporting colleagues in improving compliance with internal processes and procedures. You will also take ownership for effective delivery of audits and report audit findings to Senior Management with practical recommendations.

Provide assurance to Divisional and Operating Company Boards that the control environment is robust
Challenge, review, test and improve processes and controls
Support the delivery of a strong, effective and commercially efficient controls environment across the business
Work closely with the Head of Risk and Senior Management to evolve and optimise processes and controls
Undertake targeted audits and support colleagues in improving compliance with internal processes and procedures
Take ownership for effective delivery of audits
Report audit findings to Senior Management with practical recommendations

What You Bring

The ideal candidate for this Internal Auditor position is a qualified accountant recognised in the UK or overseas. You bring along audit experience (either Internal or External) which complements your attention to detail and interest in the bigger picture. Your ability to clearly articulate risks identified during audits with practical recommendations is essential. Experience in project audits covering all aspects of a specific site as well as Tax Audits including VAT, Stamp Duty Land Tax and the Construction Industry Scheme would be beneficial but not essential as you will be trained, and be able to pick these skills up.

Qualified Accountant recognised in the UK and overseas (Very open to a candidate from practice seeing their first opportunity into industry). A typical career journey would be 18 months to 2 years in this role and then become a commercial Finance Manager of a key development.
Senior stakeholder engagement
Attention to detail and interest in the bigger picture
Audit experience (either Internal or External)
Ability to clearly articulate risks identified during audits with practical recommendations

APPLY

Internal Auditor

About the job

Apply for this position