Sovereign Audit Manager
CurrentExperienced Audit Manager at Surrey County Council, one of England's largest local government bodies, working with the Orbis Internal Audit shared service partnership with East Sussex County Council and Brighton & Hove City Council.I manage a team of qualified and part-qualified staff with responsibilty for delivery of the approved annual Internal Audit Plan for front-line services delivered by the council, which includes: Adult Social Care, Children's Services, Services for Young People, Schools and Learning, Cultural Services, Surrey Fire & Rescue Service, Public Health and Surrey Commercial Services. These services have a combined annual expenditure circa £1.7bn.Experienced in all types of audit in the public sector, including transformational change and project management; probity and irregularity reviews in conjunction with legal enforcement agencies; grant claim certification review for both UK and European Grant claim audits (as First Level Controller for the Interreg North-West Europe and Interreg Europe Programmes); financial systems audit; financial accounts audit; and Best Value / VfM reviews.Deputy to the Chief Internal Auditor, representing the service at various committees and forum including Audit & Governance Committee; Social Care Services Board; Resident Experience Board; Wellbeing & Health Scrutiny Board and Education & Skills Board.I sit on the council's Extended Leadership Team, and also hold the post of Deputy Money Laundering Officer.I am a strong believer in effective mentoring and training of staff, and ran the annual West Dean training event for new auditors (formerly held at Wansfell College, Essex) for many years on behalf of the Home Counties Chief Internal Auditors Group.A qualified Chartered Accountant through CIPFA (first time pass, 1997)
