Job Specifications
Join a team that makes a difference every audit, every insight, every day.
At Southern Housing, our vision is clear: to create communities where everyone has a safe home in a place, they’re proud to live. We’re big enough to make a real impact, and local enough to truly understand the people we serve. Our residents are at the heart of everything we do and our Internal Audit team plays a vital role in ensuring we deliver on that promise with integrity, efficiency, and accountability.
We’re looking for a Senior Internal Auditor who shares our commitment to excellence and our HEART values: Honest, Efficient, Accountable, Respectful, Trusted. As a key member of our Internal Audit function, you’ll help shape the future of our organisation by providing independent assurance and driving continuous improvement across our systems and controls.
This is more than just a job it’s a chance to be part of a team that’s trusted, respected, and relied upon to safeguard our mission. You’ll work in a collaborative, values-led environment where your voice matters, your expertise is valued, and your work has real impact.
This is a hybrid role working a minimum of two days from either our Farringdon or Sittingbourne Office.
What You’ll Be Doing
Developing and maintaining a broad and deep understanding of Southern’s business processes, risk environment and control frameworks to support compliance and continuous improvement objectives.
Working collaboratively with Southern colleagues and external peers to advise on systems of internal controls, deliver improvements in the risk and control environment and to maintain trusting relationships.
Supporting delivery of the annual internal audit plan, leading and delivering allocated audits in accordance with prescribed deadlines
Planning and performing internal audits in accordance with the Internal Audit methodology and Professional Practices Framework
What You’ll Need
Educated to degree level or equivalent through relevant training or experience.
Qualified professional membership of internal audit or accountancy body (CIA/CMIIA or CCAB).
Knowledge of risk, regulation and compliance matters are relevant to UK Social Housing, including Regulatory Standards.
Internal audit experience within a minimum of 3 years proven experience of auditing in a complex business environment.
Strong knowledge of audit and analytical techniques to review financial, performance, technical, business, and operational controls, and risk management processes.
Skills to build effective, trusting relationships at all levels of the organisation, challenge the norm where applicable, and influence management and stakeholders regarding the importance of effective controls.
Project management skills with experience of planning, organising and delivering audit assignments and ad hoc projects in an agile and timely manner.
Closing date: Sunday 7th December 2025 at 23:59
Shortlisting: W/c 8th December 2025
Interviews: W/c 15th December 2025
We reserve the right to close this role early if we receive a high amount of applications.
About the Company
We’re one of the largest housing providers in the UK with around 80,000 homes across London, the South East, the Isle of Wight and the Midlands, giving over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own. Whether it's traditional social housing, shared ownership, affordable rent, private market rent, student accommodation, care and support or outright sales, we offer a range of services. Built on over 100 years of history, our vision is to create communities where everyone has a safe home in a place where they’re prou...
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