The company:Our client is a globally-operating (500 locations, operating in over 50 countries) manufacturing and engineering company. The world leader in their niche industry, they employ over 15,000 people.
The role:As part of a Europe-wide (small) team-build, we are looking for a Senior Internal Auditor, reporting directly to the Head of Audit. This role can be based remotely anywhere at all in Europe (various options available inc. UK, Ireland, Austria, Poland, Germany - it's your choice, but
please let us know where you would like to be based!). Travel is low at about 20% of the time.
As part of a commercial-focused function, the role of the Senior Internal Auditor 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: - 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 a Big 4 trained accountant / auditor /advisory professional, ideally with industry (internal audit) experience, or a mix of the two. English is the working language of the business, so fluency is essential; other European languages e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Czech, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Hungarian, Polish, etc. would be an advantage too. A qualification eg. ACCA, CA, ACA, CIA etc. would too be an advantage.