Audit Officer

Are you looking for a role where your skills can directly benefit families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people? Audit play a vital role in ensuring the Family Fund processes work effectively to help families.

The role

As Audit Officer, you will work directly with the Audit and Compliance Manager to support in the effective planning, conducting, and reporting of audits on time.

If you join us, you will:

• Ensure the provision of an efficient audit service to the Fund Group
• Complete for review the monthly financial and systems audit including checking finance prepared reconciliations, authorisations, payroll, and system changes
• Produce and send audit requests for receipts and/or confirmation of item delivery and then log and action receipts and confirmations
• Liaise with families, referrers, and Family Fund colleagues about audit related enquiries.
• Conduct audit checks relating to the grant delivery process to provide assurance that families are spending their awards as expected and key audit and awarding processes are operating effectively
• Assist with system testing and validation
• Assist with any reported allegations of misuse or fraud, ensuring these are documented and reported
• Assist in the preparation of Business and Board reports as required.

About you 

To be successful in this role you will need to have excellent critical reasoning, logical problem solving and analytical skills. You will need to have excellent communication skills, excellent document presentation skills and be able to manage data within Excel. You must be flexible, adaptable, and resilient to work demands and change.

For this role you will need to have administration experience with similar duties. You will need experience of accounting practices, including financial accruals and reconciliations and of record input and maintenance. 

Ideally, you will have experience of working within auditing but this is not essential.

About us

Family Fund is a great place to work for great people. We provide a challenging and rewarding working environment where every staff member can make their mark.

We are a values-based organisation and we aim to show our values in all that we do. Read our staff stories here, and see how our staff display our values every day.

We commit to inclusion, equality and diversity and we welcome applications from all parts of the community. We are a Disability Confident Employer. All disabled applicants who meet the requirements for the role will be invited for interview. If you have a disability, and are happy to let us know, please highlight this in your covering letter. We have also signed the Armed Forces Covenant and we welcome applications from the Armed Forces Community.

What our team thinks:

“Family Fund is by far the most friendly and collaborative company I have ever worked for.”

“In Audit you are able to structure the order of your work how you’d like over the month.”

“Flexitime is a game changer for being able to help structure a schedule that works for you.”

“Opportunities to work on interesting projects that are a change from the daily work.”

“Family stories make me appreciate the importance of my work and feel I am really making a difference.”

How to apply

When you’re ready to apply, complete the online application and submit a CV and a covering letter. Your letter will need to explain what skills and qualities you would bring to the team.

For more information, please read and download the job description.

The successful candidate must complete pre-employment checks that meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard. This includes a requirement to undergo a basic level DBS criminal record check, right to work check and employment history verification.