Role
Management System Auditor
Learn to audit what a system does, get help with the programme you run, and bring us in for the audit you cannot run yourself
An audit of the system as it operates
Auditors work on other people's systems: internally, as a supplier assessor, or on behalf of a certification body. The craft is evidence, sampling, interviewing and reporting, and once it is held it carries from one standard to the next.
Overview
An auditor meets a system at its tidiest
Procedures are current because the audit is next week. The risk register was reviewed for the same reason, and a good deal of the evidence was produced for the auditor rather than by the work it describes. Telling that apart from a system that genuinely runs is most of the craft, and it is why sampling and interviewing matter more than any checklist.
The difficulty is rarely technical. It arrives when the evidence points somewhere inconvenient and the person opposite has more to lose from the finding than the auditor has from writing it. The compensation is the systems that do run: where the records are a by-product of the work, where two interviews agree without having been coordinated, and where a finding is read as information rather than as an accusation.
Professional tracks
Build the capability this role needs
All tracks →Halderstone tracks follow a modular structure. They first establish a strong, role-specific foundation across disciplines, which is then applied to the chosen discipline.
Training modules
Deepen your expertise
All modules →The cross-discipline core is the part every track of this role shares, and the rest applies it to one standard.
Advisory
Build and improve your audit function
Learn more →Where you run an audit function rather than only work in one, what usually needs the work is the programme rather than any single audit.
The programme audits what is easy to schedule
Coverage follows availability rather than exposure, so the same well-run areas are visited again and the awkward ones are not. We rebuild it with you around exposure, and leave it defensible against the standard.
Two auditors, two verdicts
The same fact is a minor for one and a major for the other, and neither can say why. We work through the methodology, the sampling and the ratings with your auditors until a conclusion means the same thing whoever wrote it.
Independence is on the chart, not in the reporting line
The function reports to somebody with an interest in what it finds. We look at where it sits, who commissions it, and who reads the results first.
Audit
Assess what you cannot assess yourself
Learn more →Every audit function has work it cannot do and keep its independence, and some it cannot absorb. That is the part we take, and it is scoped by discipline, because the criteria live in the standards.
Audit contexts
Areas where your own independence rules you out
An independent review of the audit programme itself
Second-party supplier audits at a volume you cannot absorb
A discipline your function has no competence in yet
A second opinion on a finding under dispute
Peer review of findings, ratings and reporting
Insights
What we have written on this
All insights →Where do you need support?
A short conversation to understand your current situation and discuss possible next steps.
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