Your new role

The Group Internal Auditor plays an integral role in ensuring the quality of internal controls and key regulatory processes across the Group. Working either on your own or alongside the Group Internal Audit Manager, and the Group Internal Audit Senior,  the role is highly visible to senior management across the Group businesses and interfaces with Sales, Purchasing, Finance, Operations, IT and External Audit.

The Group Audit & Risk Department is responsible for carrying out a program of annual audits across the Group, focusing on internal controls, management accounts and select operational processes, with the objective of ensuring effective risk mitigation and optimisation of key business processes.

The role is varied and will work across all brands within the group (DFS, Sofology, and Dwell, and will include audits linked to the company risk register and key regulatory work.

The role works with risk owners and managers of varying levels across all business units including the Senior leadership teams and Executive Board members.

A day in the life of...

- Work closely with the Group Audit Manager to execute the Group Annual Audit plan management strategy
Experience working in a fast-moving environment with complex risks and controls, ideally, but not necessarily within the Retail sector
- Ensure Auditees are actively involved in identifying, assessing and controlling risks
- The planning, execution and communication of risk-based audit reviews of financial, operational, commercial compliance and reputational risk
- A good understanding of risks and controls and an ability to apply this to your audit work
- Lead on audits linked to the company risk register and key regulatory work
- Attend IIA seminars ensuring knowledge kept up to date
- Agree findings from reports with local management along with actions to address weaknesses identified
- Monitor completion of agreed actions and report the status of audit recommendations/actions to senior management team
- Assist, where appropriate, in special investigations or projects undertaken by the department.
-To undertake courses of training as appropriate, including undertaking appropriate professional qualifications where appropriate
- Complete audit wrap up meetings to discuss audit findings with local management after each audit
- Maintains a high level of industry knowledge and awareness through external benchmarking, networking and horizon scanning
- Develops and maintain a high level of expertise and shares this with colleagues and other functions as appropriate
- Delivery of planned and ad-hoc audit work, highlighting risk areas through audit reports, and providing assurance to the business that controls and processes are effective and operating as intended, or deficiencies have been identified and plans have been agreed to safeguard all Group business operations
- Undertake audits at business units, acting independently to achieve completion of the testing plan

The post-holder will be required as part of the role, to travel and visit various locations including the individual brands support centres (Doncaster, London, Godalming and Golborne) and the ability to travel is therefore a requirement of the job.

In an ideal world...

• Must be able to act on own initiative, operate at a senior level and work collaboratively with key stakeholders.
• Excellent data analytics skills

• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills, including good presentation & report writing skills.

• Logical/detailed approach required with an ability to see tasks through to a conclusion and work to targets/measures.
• Strong ethical standards and high levels of integrity
• Meticulous attention to detail, diligent and thorough
• Relevant qualifications would be an advantage

Pay and Perks

• A great basic salary 

• 23 days + Bank Holidays 

• Professional Qualifications

• Learning & Development

• 30% discount across the group & 15% for friends & family

• High street Discounts with 100’s of great brands 

• Contributory Healthcare

• Pension

• Employee Assistance Programme 

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay

• Discuss flexible working & part time opportunities

A little about Sofology

We think choosing a new role and choosing a new sofa have a lot in common. Your old one feels comfy, you’re used to it, and you know exactly where you fit. But a new job - or a new sofa - holds so much potential. Pick the right one and you’ll never look back. You want to feel comfortable, but with enough going on to keep you right on the edge of your seat. Our team is always growing, and we’re constantly shuffling up on the sofa to make room for the newest member of the DFS Group. 

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