Working in our Newcastle Office

Job Opportunities

We currently have vacancies for the following positions:

Audit Principals £36,487 - £50,215

The role of an Audit Principal at the National Audit Office involves delivering the audit work required for a number of clients to a professional standard, advising clients on their financial management procedures, leading and supervising teams of junior staff on audit visits and supporting and, where necessary, deputising for the Audit Manager. The latter might include acting as a representative at clients’ Audit and Risk Committees. The range of clients you may find yourself working on can include major audits of large Government Departments or Agencies through to smaller less well known but equally interesting bodies.

In practice, you will be drafting the audit strategy, preparing audit plans and setting budgets, allocating work to junior staff and reviewing their output, carrying out first stage review and finalising the audit work, preparing printers’ proofs of audited accounts. In addition, you will have a role to play in training and developing ICAEW trainees and devising and undertaking other ad hoc work such as investigations or presentations on financial management issues facing clients.

A formal job description and person specification are available through the following links

• Job Description
• Person specification

Audit Manager (Financial Audit) £49,072 - £63,235

The role of an Audit Manager at the National Audit Office involves leading teams to deliver audit work, representing the NAO on clients’ Audit and Risk Committees, assisting clients in developing and maintaining robust financial management procedures and contributing to the strategic planning and business needs of the NAO. In effect, this means approving the audit strategy, having day to day contact with teams of staff who are working on your client audits and overseeing both the planning of audit work and the progress of individual audits. The Audit Manager role is key in the office in terms of developing professional working relationships with clients and providing them with advice and support where necessary. This may involve delivering presentations to client staff to explain financial management issues. You may also be called upon to provide technical advice to your team members.

A formal job description and person specification are available through the following links:

• Job Description
• Person Specification