JOB DETAILS
All the relevant skills, qualifications and experience that a successful applicant will need are listed in the following description.
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time.
In-house title – Senior Auditor
DEPARTMENT: Audit & Assurance, Quality Risk and Assurance, BBC Chief Operating Group
LOCATION: London or Birmingham. Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of two days per week in the office (please note this is the current requirement, and may change in future)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £55,000 – £60,000 per annum (plus London Weighting £5,441 per annum, if London based), depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. If you’d like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there’s no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Purpose of the Role
Join a high-performing Audit and Assurance team at the heart of the BBC. We deliver impactful audits that shape the organisation and focus on the BBC’s most significant risks. Highly regarded across the Group, our work drives strategic decisions and supports continuous improvement. If you’re passionate about making a difference, influencing change, and working where your insights matter, this is your opportunity to be part of a team that truly makes an impact.
BBC Audit and Assurance sits within BBC’s Quality, Risk & Assurance division which aims to keep the BBC safe, secure and well run.
The Senior Auditor, supported by an Audit Manager, plays a key role in delivering recognised excellence in the provision of independent, impartial advice and assurance on business risks and controls.
Why Join the Team
Do you want to join a team where your work truly makes a difference? At the BBC, our Audit and Assurance team thrives on a great team culture, where collaboration, support, and innovation are at the core. No two days are the same as we tackle the BBC’s biggest risks and help shape its future. It’s a fantastic place to work— diverse, dynamic, and driven by purpose—within a world‑renowned organisation that values integrity, impact, and continuous improvement.
Our Audit and Assurance team ensures that the BBC’s strategic and operational risks are understood and effectively managed. Its remit is the entire BBC Group, including commercial subsidiaries and overseas locations. Audit and Assurance, via the Director of Audit and Assurance, maintains an independent reporting line to the BBC Audit and Risk Committee.
Your Key Responsibilities and Impact
- Prepare detailed audit testing plans that focus on key risks. This will involve gathering information by meeting people at all levels across the BBC.
- Carry out rigorous audit testing, flexing work plans in response to findings and emerging risks.
- Acknowledge issues, impacts, root causes and recommendations with management throughout the course of audit assignments.
- Act as an advocate for internal control, sharing expertise within the team and encouraging best practice behaviours across the business.
- Write clear, concise, robust and balanced audit reports.
- Maintain knowledge of the BBC strategy, external and organisational risk environment and business changes to help inform audit approach and activity.
- Support on departmental systems and reporting for the Audit and Assurance function, including Audit and Risk Committee reporting and action follow up.
Your Skills and Experience
We are looking for the ability and confidence to deliver a range of audit activity under high quality standards and demanding deadlines in a complex environment.
Essential Criteria
- Successful applicants will be fully qualified with at least one of the following professional qualifications:
- Qualified Accountant through a recognised professional body (e.g. ACA, ACCA, ACMA)
- Chartered Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (UK)
- Certified Information Systems Auditor
- Proven recent internal auditing experience.
- Ability to negotiate and work alongside a range of contacts including senior management and the motivation and energy to actively promote control improvements.
- Demonstrable experience of running end-to-end internal audits.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and in writing, and proven ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
Desirable
- Internal audit experience in IT/technology audits, or audits with a strong financial focus.
- A demonstrable interest in leveraging technology within audit delivery, including the use of data analytics and an openness to exploring emerging technologies such as AI.
If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
Close date 22 April 2026.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct employment screening checks which include reference checks, eligibility to work checks, and, if applicable to the role, safeguarding and adverse media/social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
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Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. xwzovoh Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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