Technical Audit Consultant

Salford City Council

Civic Centre

Chorley Road

Swinton

M27 5BN

Technical Audit Consultant

Working Hours: Full time / Part time or Term time welcome

Grade/Salary: 4B, £44,428 -  £47,420 (Full Time Equivalent)

Contract type: Permanent

Closing Date: Friday 3rd May 2024 at 11:59pm

Location: Head office Salford Council Swinton, Salford. (Flexible location - office / home based - various client areas in Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, Merseyside, Cheshire, and Wales)

About Us:

Salford Technical Audit Services are based out of Salford City Council, providing a high quality technical IT audit service for councils across Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire, North Wales and Yorkshire; other clients include the Police, Transport Executive and the Housing Sector. The service set up in 2003 and continues to expand and develop, increasing its client portfolio year on year.

An exciting opportunity have arisen for a Technical Audit Consultant to join our well-established and expanding team. We are looking for somebody who is enthusiastic and experienced with strong technical, investigative, negotiating and influencing skills to provide a professional service to our clients.

Candidates can enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid working environment in managing their own workload, work from central offices, work from home and/or work out of specific locations across the region, depending on where they live. Workload will, where possible, be allocated within proximity to home aimed at reduced travel time to maximise work-life balance.

Our IT audits vary across clients and we are ideally seeking candidates with knowledge in infrastructure IT audits; application audits; information security / cyber security; PCI DSS Compliance; and/or project audit work.

Expected Profile:

• Practical audit experience in risk and control based auditing desirable. Although IT professionals with a strong information security background considering a move in to IT audit will be considered
• CISA/CISM/QICA, ISO27001 Lead Auditor or equivalent desirable
• A good understanding of relevant standards for Information/Cyber Security and IT Service Management
• Knowledge of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)
• Positive communicator, able to converse with technical and non-technical personnel
• Investigative, problem solver and able to recommend practical solutions
• An effective team member and able to work on your own initiative for end to end assignments
• Client relationship management experience
• Excellent time management skills

Role Profile.pdf

If you  would like an informal chat about the service we provide and the areas covered, please email Gary Marland, Head of Technical Audit gary.marland@salford.gov.uk

Our Values

Salford’s values describe the personal qualities every employee is expected to demonstrate when carrying out their role. Putting the values in to operate across the whole organisation creates a supportive environment which allows us to be the best we can be. Our Spirit of Salford initiative highlight’s our core values:

• the Pride of our commitment to our City,
• our Passion; resonated in our optimism and aspiration for the City,
• the respect and care for the People of Salford and;
• taking Personal Responsibility and ownership of our actions

About your benefits

You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged and you will have the opportunity to work and grow in a values based organisation where people are at the heart of everything we do. We promote a positive permission culture, empowering you to make a difference. Your opinions matter to us and you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel, pension and salary sacrifice schemes.  In addition to this we offer a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs. 

Continuous service commitment

New employees can now keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester, which include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester, as well as many others.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. We understand how hard it can be to combine caring for a loved one with work so we aim to provide support and flexibility to balance family and caring responsibilities with work https://greater.jobs/content/9189/diversity-and-inclusion

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council’s primary Recruitment and Employment Privacy Notice which can be found at https://www.salford.gov.uk/gdpr .

We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel by way of a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme. Our application forms ask you to indicate if you meet any of the criteria within this scheme, and so to find out more and if you qualify please visit: GreaterManchester Guaranteed Assessment Scheme | greater jobs