Principal Auditor

The Service & Team:

Ready to make a real impact Join Cornwall Council as a Principal Auditor and play a key role in driving good governance strengthening assurance and supporting positive change across one of the UKs largest unitary councils. This is an exciting opportunity to use your expertise in a forward-thinking modern audit service where your work will make a visible difference.

This role sits within the Legal & Assurance Service in the Customer & Support Services Directorate at Cornwall Council.

It is a great time to be joining our team; we are a modern forward-thinking service operating within one of the largest Unitary Councils in the UK. As part of a proactive customer-focused team you will help ensure that the Council maintains high standards of governance risk management and internal control contributing to continuous improvement across the organisation.

The Role:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking enthusiastic and skilled Principal Auditor within our Audit team. Our Internal Audit function provides assurance and consultancy services to Cornwall Council Corserv Ltd Cornwall Housing Limited Treveth LLP Council of the Isles of Scilly and a number of Academy Trusts. We are seeking to appoint an individual who is self-motivated and enthusiastic.

You will be responsible for delivering the risk based internal audit plan plus providing consultancy and advisory activities that drive positive change within the Council providing assurance to our stakeholders / clients. You will have critical analysis and problem-solving skills and provide clear and concise advice on governance risk and control. The role would give you the opportunity to make a difference by providing advice and assistance to Senior Managers and by highlighting areas to improve governance internal control financial management and risk management arrangements.

This is a public/customer-facing role where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern:

This is a full time position and whilst the location/work-base for this role has been specified our evolving ways of working means that the role may allow you to also work remotely (e.g. from home/other locations). We will discuss this with you during the recruitment process.

What youll need to succeed:

The ideal candidate will have achieved a professional qualification (CCAB/CMIIA) have a sound audit background at a senior level and be able to perform complex audit work to a high standard. A good understanding of current best audit practice is essential.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What youll get in return:

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

a competitive salary.

a defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact :

Zoe Davies Chief Internal Auditor at
Gary Walton Principal Audit Manager at
Jason Carne Principal Audit Manager at

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted please contact if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.