Salary: Competitive per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Hybrid, 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 18th May 2025
At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it’s our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we’re harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.
Join our team of forward-thinkers who approach the world with a different lens. We value individuals who are vocal about driving positive change and are willing to dive into both big and small tasks. If you’re ready to take your career to new heights, this opportunity is for you.
This role is accountable for supporting and assisting with the data analytical requirements across the assurance and enterprise risk activity of the Internal Audit team. You will provide data-driven insights across assurance, risk management, and team performance using data analysis to produce and present reports to management. You will thrive on solving complex problems and steering a data analytics adoption approach in the Internal Audit function.
- Support risk-based audit assignments using data analytics, ultimately contributing to delivering on the approved internal audit plan.
- Analyse outputs to derive insights and identify areas for deeper testing, elevating the role of data analytics within audits.
- Present complex analyses to internal audit and enterprise risk teams, utilising visualisation tools (e.g., PowerBI) to simplify data interpretation.
- Partner with colleagues and stakeholders to evaluate, test, and report on the design and operating effectiveness of management's controls using data analytic techniques.
- Work with the Internal Audit team through reviews of the analytical output, collaborating to resolve any discrepancies prior to analysis dissemination to wider stakeholders.
- Synthesise insights, results, and findings into comprehensive reports and presentations for management.
- Guide internal audit and risk teams on data extractions and establish efficient data sharing processes with these stakeholders.
- Prepare data analytical documentation, ensuring compliance with audit methodology requirements and maintaining a thorough audit file.
- Build network and maintain regular contact with key stakeholders/customers across the organisation.
- Act as a subject matter expert and consultant, providing coaching, delivering guidance, and supporting complex projects, ensuring application of best practice (processes and methodologies) reuse and agility.
- Develop and improve KPIs to support day-to-day risk management and team performance.
- Demonstrable experience of managing internal and external relationships at all levels.
- Proven experience in solution development and problem-solving in a matrixed environment.
- Ability to navigate complex stakeholder/governance situations and deliver results in this context.
- Adept at navigating complex data, with a keen analytical mind and a curiosity for exploring data’s role within assurance.
- Data analytics skills, providing insight and root cause analysis from data sources. Intermediate to advanced Excel/PowerBI/similar user.
- Ability to think outside the box and identify patterns of behaviour.
- At least 1 year of data analysis experience involving data processing, database programming, or data analytics.
- Experience with data analysis tools, reporting software, and/or scripting languages (Alteryx, PowerBI, IDEA, ACL, Cognos, SQL, VBA, R, Python, etc.).
- A basic understanding of internal audit disciplines, methodologies, and practices.
- Very strong numerical, analytical, and conceptual skills.
- Analytical ability and logical reasoning.
- Completion of assignments effectively and in a timely manner (Time Management).
Desirable:
- Experience in a similar role within the aviation and travel/tourism sector.
- Specific deep-field expertise in at least one relevant discipline (e.g. forensic auditing, advanced data modelling, continuous audit testing and scripting, IT technical auditing).
- Professional curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies and processes (e.g. the use of AI/GenAI in internal audit).
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Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, ([email protected]) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.