Audit Manager (Tech & Digital)

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Overview

We're Kingfisher, A team made up of over 78,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That's right, we're big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that's where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

As our Audit Manager for Technology & Digital, your role is to manage and deliver a portfolio of internal audits across the Kingfisher Group, using financial, operational and technology control requirements to reduce risk and/or improve efficiency and performance. This role can be based from our Southampton or London offices, 2-3 days a week in-line with our hybrid working policy.

What's the job?

• Lead allocated audits, including teams of auditors, to assess key financial, technology, or business-related processes, ensuring major risks are identified, understood, and addressed.
• Ensure consistent application of the audit methodology across the organization, adhering to IIA standards and ensuring high-quality audit execution.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, providing support and business partnering while maintaining independence.
• Raise significant issues with leadership, make recommendations for improvement, and ensure effective resolution.

1. Prepare reports for senior management and board members, ensuring audit findings and recommendations are communicated clearly.

• Set expectations, review work, provide feedback to auditors, and contribute to the development and learning within the Internal Audit team.
• Adjust audit plans and priorities in response to resource constraints or operational challenges, ensuring audit objectives are met efficiently.
• Use appropriate data analytics tools and data interrogation techniques to enhance audit effectiveness and insights. This ensures that the audit function can identify trends and issues more efficiently, which is particularly relevant in technology and digital audits.

What you'll bring

• CISA or equivalent technology assurance certification, and experience of developing in-depth business understanding / audit experience in either professional service or large corporate organisation.
• Familiarity with technology infrastructure, ecommerce systems and SAP. Strong understanding of core technology management processes and controls, including as security, change management and software development.
• An understanding of technology security risks and controls, data governance, and legal/ regulatory requirements in a retail organisation.
• Strong knowledge of internal auditing, internal controls, and risk management.
• Confident using and interrogating large data sets and using data analysis tools.

Be Customer Focused - constantly improving our customers' experience

• We listen to our customers and colleagues
• We innovate products and experiences to stay ahead

Be Human - leading with purpose, humanity and care

• We do the right thing
• We invest in our people and build great teams

Be Curious - thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

• We focus externally, globally and build the long term
• We experiment and share our learnings

Be Agile - building trust and empowering people to work with agility

• We act with pace, not perfection, role modelling 80/20
• We take risks, fail fast and adapt quickly

Be Inclusive - inspiring diverse teams to achieve together

• We celebrate difference as a strength
• We collaborate, breaking down silos

Be Accountable - owning the plan, delivering results and growth

• We focus on performance outcomes
• We prioritise and simplify for others

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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