Corporate Assurance and Risk Manager

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is driven by its unparalleled access across government to build better insights, better outcomes for our clients.

This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government.

The Agencys unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully, and continue developing professionally.

The role of Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager is part of the Governance team, which sits within the Corporate Services division. This small but dynamic team provides a wide array of corporate governance services, including managing governance frameworks, risk management processes, and internal controls within the GIAA.

The Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager holds a pivotal position within the Governance team and across the Agency. Working closely with senior colleagues, you will ensure the seamless delivery of a high-quality internal governance function. You will serve as the Agencys lead on propriety, ethics, correspondence handling, and transparency reporting.

• Develop and oversee the Agencys assurance environment and control framework, including maintaining the map of assurance and delivering assurance exercises to support the Accounting Officers assessment of the effectiveness of the internal control environment.
• Lead the management and continuous development of the Agencys approach to risk management, ensuring effective design and implementation of policies, procedures, and practices for risk identification, assessment, treatment, monitoring, and reporting.
• Deliver high-quality risk and assurance practices across the organisation, and reports to governance bodies and other key stakeholders, including reporting on risk exposures, trends, and mitigation progress.
• Promote Agency-wide compliance with the Counter Fraud Functional Standards by supporting the identification of areas for improvement, advising on necessary actions, and fostering robust processes to meet the required benchmarks.
• Lead the Agencys internal counter-fraud arrangements by identifying, assessing, and monitoring fraud risks, as well as reviewing the effectiveness of associated controls.
• Prepare, deliver, and report on the annual action plan, which sets out targeted measures and initiatives to mitigate the risks of fraud, bribery, and corruption.
• Conduct second-line assurance checks and produce reports for Executive and Board committees.
• Act as secretary to committees of the Agency Board and Executive, including the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee.
• Contribute to and/or manage complex work programmes and governance projects, with a focus on ensuring timely delivery, alignment with organisational priorities, providing administrative support as required.

1. Previous experience of developing and overseeing risk and assurance processes, with a solid understanding of the principles and concepts of risk management.
2. Knowledge of the three lines model for assurance and experience of how this operates at a corporate level within an organisation.
3. Experience of producing reports and information returns for governance bodies and presenting complex information in a clear and succinct manner, using judgement to make assessments and recommendations.
4. Excellent planning and organisational skills with prior experience managing reactive and proactive workloads and delivering complex work programmes to deadline.
5. Adept at prioritising, adapting to change, and staying resilient. Collaborative, with a proven ability to work with stakeholders and teams to achieve shared goals.
6. Taking the initiative to lead on areas of responsibility with a positive approach to solving problems, with a strong track record of delivering good administrative processes and/or reviewing processes to deliver improvements or efficiencies.
7. Excellent communication skills and an ability to clearly articulate complex information, both verbally and in writing, to a variety of audiences.
8. A strong team player, with a proven ability to successfully work with others to deliver key cross-organisational projects

To apply for this role, you will need to submit your employment history, personal details and provide a statement of suitability of no more than 1,000 words, referring to the person specification.

Please note only your statement of suitability will be assessed at the sift stage.

Candidates invited to interview will be required to complete a written exercise to test their technical skills in advance of the interviews.

Candidates will be asked to present the output to the interview panel, and this will be followed by questions. One score will be given for the presentation and another for the follow-up questions.

Candidates invited to interview will be assessed on experience and strengths, with technical skills being assessed through the written exercise.