The company:Our client is a globally-operating (1 million customers, across 25,000 locations, operating in six continents) fast-growing software company. The world leader in their niche industry, they employ over 2,000 people.
The role:As part of a Europe-wide (small) team-build, we are looking for an Internal Audit Manager, reporting directly to the Head of Audit. This role will be based in their Warsaw, Poland (the European HQ) and business travel is low, at about 20% of the time.
As part of a commercially-focused function, the role of the Internal Audit Manager is to ensure the delivery of independent assurance over the design and effectiveness of internal controls within the Group. This position gives the successful candidate an unrivalled insight into many aspects of the Group's operations and there are high levels of exposure to senior management and great opportunities to influence the direction of the business.
Responsibilities: - Recruiting and line-managing a team of 2 Senior Internal Auditors, as part of a Europe-wide team build.
- Working with the Head of Audit to develop and deliver the internal audit plan.
- Conducting the risk assessments for audits and developing the scope with management and briefing the before the engagement.
- Leading risk-based internal audits by coordinating operational leadership teams and managing the activities of the auditors (co-source and guest auditors, where applicable).
- Agreeing the findings and proposed actions with management; presenting findings to senior management.
- Sharing learnings and best practice with fellow auditors and across the business.
- Following-up on outstanding internal audit issues.
- Becoming and ambassador for team and maintaining the good reputation of Internal Audit within the business.
- Champions good governance, internal control and risk management.
Candidate Profile
We are looking for an accountancy / audit / advisory professional, ideally with industry (internal audit) experience; practice training; or a mix of the two. English is the working language of the business, so good working English, as well as Polish will be required. Other European languages e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Czech, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Hungarian, etc. would be an advantage too. A qualification e.g.. ACCA, CA, ACA, CIA etc. would too be an advantage, but not necessary.
Interested? Please do get in touch.