Audit and Compliance Lead

Audit and Compliance Lead plays a pivotal role in safeguarding the organisation’s financial integrity and strengthening governance across NHS Supply Chain. The role leads the delivery of the Annual Report and Accounts, and oversees both internal and external audit activity, ensuring robust assurance and driving continuous improvement in financial controls and processes.

Requirements

• Lead audit, risk and compliance activity across finance, planning and coordinating external and internal audits, preparing high‐quality evidence, responding to findings, and driving timely closure of audit actions while strengthening controls and assurance.
• Own the governance framework, maintaining financial policies, approval hierarchies, schemes of delegation, risk registers, business continuity plans and records of processing activity, ensuring they are up to date, practical, and embedded in day‐to‐day ways of working.
• Manage and develop the expense’s function, providing clear leadership to the team, ensuring claims and queries are processed accurately, efficiently and in line with policy, and continuously improving the colleague experience.
• Provide financial oversight and technical support, coordinating month‐end reviews, supporting the Financial Reporting team as required, and offering technical accounting guidance to ensure accurate, timely and compliant reporting.

Benefits

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
• Annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards.
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• In-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%).
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.