Description
Senior Forensic Auditor- Internal Auditor
What is the purpose of this role?
Thames Water is the largest water and waste water supply company in the UK; we are looking for an enthusiastic Internal Forensic Auditor to drive the delivery of commercial savings through specialist review of our contracts, and identify improper transactions that conflict with the interests of Thames Water.
What makes this role unique?
The role will give you a real and interesting insight to Thames Water as a business and you will have the autonomy to lead investigations and add value to the business by making improvement recommendations to senior stakeholders.
What will this role involve?
We are looking for someone to identify and evaluate areas for commercial savings as well as improvement in processes and controls.
Key duties will include:
Conducting a programme of audits to identify and deliver savings.
Identifying systemic weaknesses in our contract management approach and propose pragmatic solutions.
Interfacing with other assurance providers to ensure that functions benefit from one another's work.
Communicating salient points arising from work efficiently.
Review high-risk financial accounting records and translate this to mitigate exposures.
What skills are we looking for?
Professional qualification desirable - accounting, auditing, fraud or similar.
Internal or external audit experience, ideally within a Forensic Team.
Strong interpersonal skills.
Excellent standard of written and oral communication at all levels.
Business process, systems evaluation skills.
Time management/planning/project management.
Flexibility/adaptability to different environment/cultures.
Good systems and software based skills.
Thames Water information & Salary
This role is paying a day rate of around £300 per day and is based in Pimlico, Central London. The role is expected last until January 2014.
Why Thames Water?
Thames Water is the UK's biggest water and sewerage company. We provide the essential service at the heart of daily life, health and enjoyment to 14 million customers across London and the Thames Valley.
On a typical day we supply 2.6 billion litres of top quality drinking water and our 350 sewage treatment works treat more than 4.2bn litres of wastewater. Our 85,000 miles of water mains and sewers would wrap around the world three-and-a-half times.
We have an amazing history, but are equally excited by the future. We already self-generate enough electricity to power a city the size of Oxford, but by 2020 we expect 20 per cent of our power will come from sewage. We also built the UK's first sewage recycling plant on the Olympic Park and understand the importance of speaking to our youngest customers by visiting them at school.
We will not compromise on standards which is why we carry out more than 400,000 tests per year on our drinking water. We continue to invest and this year will be spending more than £1 billion to improve our network and infrastructure - our pipes, sewage treatment and clean water treatment plants, which are some of the biggest and most advanced in Europe.
Above all this, Thames Water values its staff as number one. The enormous scale of our work means we have to recruit and develop only the most talented candidates. Are you up to the challenge?
Our people
You would never guess half of the jobs we have at Thames Water. These range from the usual head office roles in customer service, HR and finance as well as specialist water and wastewater roles. Other areas that are not so obvious include our community investment team, sewer flushers, nature reserve rangers and historians.