Internal Audit Manager – Birmingham

Smiths Group designs, manufactures and delivers smarter engineering solutions for mission-critical applications, solving some of the world's toughest problems for our customers, our communities and our world. For over 170 years, Smiths Group has been pioneering progress by improving the world through smarter engineering.

We serve millions of people every year, to help create a safer, more efficient and better-connected world, across four major global markets: Energy, General Industry, Security & Defence, and Aerospace. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs 14,600 colleagues in over 50+ countries.

This pioneering spirit continues to drive us today, underpinned by our powerful culture. Improving our world is what we do, how we think, and how we will continue to use our passion for technology and engineering to tackle our customers biggest challenges today and in the future.

We're looking for people with curious minds. Who want responsibility and relish a challenge. Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting out, our global scale and focus on growth means we have some great career opportunities for you. There's never been a better time to join Smiths.

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Reporting to the Head of Internal Audit, this position forms a key part of the Internal Audit & Risk Management function. The role is responsible for delivering assurance over the financial and operational control environment across Smiths Group for the Audit Committee. The successful candidate will join a FTSE100 international organisation and will be entrusted with managing a diverse portfolio of audits, offering significant responsibility and professional challenge. The role includes domestic and international travel of up to 35%.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute a broad range of internal audits across the Group, ensuring the delivery of high‑quality reports and associated outputs.
• Support the Group’s risk management framework by leading risk workshops with senior stakeholders and contributing to the enterprise‑wide risk management programme.
• Maintain and enhance the risk‑based audit plan and audit universe, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and emerging risks.
• Develop and sustain effective working relationships with stakeholders across divisions and Group functions.
• Assist in the preparation of Audit Committee materials and other governance reporting as required.
• Take ownership of designated departmental activities, including KPI reporting, audit observation tracking, and data analytics.
• Contribute to the evolution of the Internal Audit methodology and the development of the annual audit plan.

Technical Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Educated to degree level with a recognised Accountancy qualification; (eg: ACA/ACCA)
• Previous internal or external audit experience (ideally with one of the Big 4);
• Fluent written and spoken English;
• Highly organised, keen attention to detail;
• Comfortable taking responsibility for the end to end audit process (from planning phase to the issuance of high-quality reports);
• Effective communicator across all levels within a business and ability to produce high-quality written reports (all audit reports are distributed across the Group and read by the Board);
• Able to deal with ambiguity and complexity;
• Ability to deal with multiple competing deadlines and projects;
• Ability to understand existing processes / ways of working and the curiosity to challenge and improve them;
• Ability to influence and partner senior stakeholders to agree and drive Audit actions through to completion;
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, energetic with excellent collaboration and influencing skills in order to be able to demonstrate personal credibility to the business.