Requirements
Candidates need experience delivering IT internal audits from planning through completion, ideally gained in an organization with annual turnover of at least £50 million and preferably a listed FTSE business. The role targets assistant manager to senior manager level, seeks a relevant professional qualification with post-qualification experience, and requires flexibility to travel to client sites when needed.
Job Description
At Grant Thornton we’re building something bold. We’re doing things differently - looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. And we empower our people with real opportunity. Our journey from great to exceptional is well underway. With significant investment behind us and a clear strategy for growth, there’s real momentum.
Our Agile Talent Community (ATC) brings together experienced contract professionals who want choice without losing connection. You work where you add the most value, alongside teams who treat you as a partner rather than a placeholder.
Assignment Description:
Joining us in Business Risk Services
We help and support clients achieve their strategic goals by guiding them through new legislation changes and helping to navigate accounting, regulatory, technology and operating model change. The world around us is changing and our teams help clients remain agile and adapt to these changes and stay ahead of the competition.
Grant Thornton’s Business Risk Services (BRS) team provides market-leading risk, control and governance services, working with clients across a variety of industries and beyond.
If you’re an experienced Interim IT Internal Auditor who’s tired of choosing between freedom and meaningful work, there’s another route. Within our Business Risk Services team, you’ll be given the opportunity to take on short- to medium-term projects that sharpen your expertise, stretch your thinking, and give you a different angle on familiar challenges - all without locking you into a single path.
We are offering the ability to engage with us via inside IR35 terms.
Skills We Are Looking For
- Experience delivering IT internal audits, from planning through to delivery. This is essential.
- Experience working within industry, in an organisation with annual turnover of £50m or more, ideally within a listed FTSE business.
- A strong understanding of IT general controls, for example IT risk and governance, identity and access management, IT development, IT change, and IT disaster recovery.
- Operating at assistant manager, manager or senior manager level.
- A professional qualification such as CISA, CISM, COBIT, PRINCE2 or ACCA, with post-qualification experience.
- Flexibility to travel to client sites where the engagement requires it.
- Work that moves you forward
- The freedom of contracting without the hidden admin
- Community you can actually feel
Our culture and values
We have a culture where talented people thrive – where high performance is not just expected but enabled. It’s a culture built on clarity, curiosity, and care. One that challenges us to aim higher, where we’re encouraged to make the most of an abundance of resources to fuel our own development, and where we support each other to grow, learn, and succeed.
Our open and accessible culture means you’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm. The things that set you apart, we value them. That’s why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work.
How To Join
We keep the process straightforward, because the real work happens once you’re here.
- Submit your CV and basic details through our online application.
- If there’s a match, a recruiter will reach out to discuss.
- Meet key stakeholders for a focused conversation.
- Complete your background checks, join the Agile Talent Community, and start exploring the opportunities we have to offer.
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About Grant Thornton UK
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