Knovia are an evolving group of best-in-class education businesses that build professional capabilities, operating in chosen sectors that make a real impact, including Paragon Skills and Tempdent.
Knovia brings clarity of vision, the best people and the resources to be successful and make an impact across our specialist sectors of Care, Education and Dental. Our principles and core values demonstrate our impact of being at the forefront of building the capability of individuals, providing them with the skills to be productive and deliver a better service to advance their careers.
We have a well-invested, highly sustainable and scalable business model for effective growth, with our understanding of the challenges within our chosen sectors and dedication to quality we are a trusted partner for the change in highly regulated markets.
Position:
Salary: £27,500 - £32,000 dependent on experience
Location: Remote - Full time 36.5 hours a week (Mon - Fri)
We have an exciting opportunity for a creative, forward thinking and solutions focused individual to join our funding and compliance team as a
Audit Business Partner to support our shared services function and support colleagues across Paragon Skills & Tempdent.
You'll assist the Lead Audit Business Partner to develop and educate the wider business by providing internal development and training opportunities on compliance and audit strategies, changes to awarding body requirements and other funding and compliance activities to improve provision across the company.
This role is about assisting on all internal and external audit and compliance activities, and lead on the facilitation and management of data integrity and compliance to meet the funding body requirements.
You'll be responsible for key area's including:
- Carrying out internal audit and compliance checks and assist business teams to carry out 10% audits
- Providing training and development of internal audit and compliance for the wider business
- Assisting the Head of Funding and Compliance on external PFA and funding body audits
- Using external PDSAT reports to aid the develop of internal reporting mechanisms to minimise risk
- Facilitating and carry out funding and compliance audits to ensure data integrity and delivery of agreed service level agreements to the business
If you're a forward thinking individual with a desire to make a difference then we'd love to hear from you.
Requirements:
- Experience of carrying out financial funding audits with knowledge and experience of government funding rules and contractual obligations
- Experience of communicating across a large multi-sector training provider
- Experience of working as part of a funding and compliance or similar team and conducting audits
- Experience of successfully achieving targets and deadlines
- Knowledge of work-based learning and funding
- Ability to uphold data privacy and data protection at all times
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a natural affinity with analysing data
- Ability to identify and rectify errors with excellent attention to detail
Other information:
We are proud to offer a suite of which are optional benefits including life assurance and income protection and core benefits below;
- 20 days annual leave - increasing with length of service and a holiday purchase scheme
- 3 Knovia Days for our Operational December Closure and 8 Public Bank Holidays
- Up to 3 days of paid volunteering leave and corporate conscience initiatives
- Perkbox – a suite of lifestyle benefits and wellness tools
- Recognition and long service awards to celebrate our colleagues’
We are a Disability Confident Employer and have a guaranteed interview scheme in place to ensure that nobody is overlooked or discriminated against because of their disability. If you meet the minimum criteria when you apply and you have informed us in your application that you have a disability, you will be guaranteed an interview for that role.
We will be reviewing applications and conducting interviews on an on-going basis which may mean this vacancy closes prior to the advertised closing date if we have identified a suitable so please apply as soon as possible.
To promote and maintain an inclusive working environment, as part of your application process we will ask you to share data on certain characteristics. These answers will not form part of the selection and recruitment process and will not be shared with anyone outside of the People Team.
Paragon Skills is committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of our learners and colleagues and we implement robust safer recruitment practices to support this. Dependant on the role you are applying for, we may undertake a number of necessary checks to confirm you are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults, which may include a Disclosure and Barring Service check. We are also committed to promoting equality and inclusion throughout our colleague and learner populations.
