This is a hybrid role, requiring regular attendance in our Cardiff office.
Excellent opportunity for an Internal Auditor to join our Group Internal Audit team as Internal Auditor.
In this role you will support the Group Head of Audit and Deputy Head of Audit and play a key role in providing assurance across our UK and international audit programmes, helping ensure we remain well controlled and effectively managing risk.
Key responsibilities include
- Providing ongoing assurance to the Audit Committee on the effectiveness of audit programmes, ensuring a proactive, responsive, and reactive approach to risk and control
- Producing clear, concise audit reports for Senior Management, highlighting any significant non-compliance or control weaknesses and supporting improvements across the business
- Managing audit administration activity, including planning, fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up, while working closely with stakeholders to ensure timely completion of recommendations
- Participating in peer reviews, offering constructive challenge and feedback on audit documentation and reporting
- Supporting a culture where customers are treated fairly in all areas of the business
- Maintaining your professional development, ensuring learning is up to date and appropriately recorded
Essential Skills & Experience
- Fully or nearly qualified (CIA, ACA, ACCA, CISA or equivalent) proven experience within an IA function.
- End-to-end audit experience (planning, fieldwork, reporting, follow-up)
- Strong track record identifying control weaknesses and non-compliance, with practical recommendations
- Ability to assess internal controls and risk management effectiveness
- Experience engaging with senior stakeholders
- Confident in constructively challenging, senior stakeholder where needed
- Clear, concise, and insightful report writing for senior management
- High attention to detail and strong documentation standards
- Ability to drive action plans and drive timely remediation
- Strong analytical skills: interpreting data, identifying trends and root causes, and proposing solutions
- Experience managing multiple audits simultaneously and meeting deadlines
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Exposure to key insurance functions (claims, underwriting, pricing, product governance)
- Familiarity with risk-based internal audit frameworks and audit software
- Experience working across multiple jurisdictions or regulatory environments
- Ability to use data analytics tools to enhance audit insights.
- Ability to challenge audit outputs and contribute to continuous improvement
- Awareness of operational resilience, outsourcing risk, cyber risk, and regulatory change
- Involvement in transformation audits or advisory work
Please note - we may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.
Admiral: Where You Can
We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.
Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.
We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.
Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.
Disability Confident Leader
As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we’ll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process.
If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please email [email protected] or contact us on 07796 039828. This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.
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