Senior Internal Auditor: Risk & Controls

The Audit & Risk Recruitment has been exclusively mandated to hire for an international manufacturing business who has a real-life impact in key engineering markets. With a strong historic track record of growth and development across the US, EMEA and Asia, they are seeking a Senior Internal Auditor to join them in Germany at the Essen site. This is a critical hire to transform the site and aid the business into their next phase, before listing.

This is a highly independent role in Germany, reporting to the UK Internal Audit team who offer support and development opportunities. For the right candidate, there are clear opportunities to develop into a Manager and build a team as the business experiences significant growth.

It is a diverse role which will see you covering complex operational audits, supply chains, strengthening controls and working closely with the operational teams in complex industrial environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conducting internal audit reviews, walkthroughs, testing, validation and follow-up activities across all business lines such as production, maintenance, logistics, manufacturing etc.
• Be responsible for remediation plans and ensure that control gaps are identified and improved in a timely manner
• Manage key stakeholders, including operational, strategic and engineering leaders
• Conduct SOX testing and compliance reviews as well as liaising with external auditors
• Support key stakeholders in the financial and operational risk identification and improvement
• Support targeted reviews, investigations and ad-hoc assignments across the wider organisation
• Work independently and be part of a global team
• Promote governance, accountability and control awareness whilst maintaining independence and objectivity

You will ideally have:

• Experience within manufacturing, engineering, industrial or operational environments is advantageous
• Around six or more years’ experience in internal audit, external audit, compliance and internal controls testing (from in-house positions or Big 4). Candidates from risk advisory, risk consulting or risk assurance teams in consulting firms are welcome to apply, if you are looking for a challenge and ownership.
• SOX compliance experience is highly desired but not essential
• Experience identifying process weaknesses and validating corrective actions
• Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence working across cross-functional teams
• Fluency in German (business level is minimum) and English is essential; you will need to converse in German in the office
• Familiarity with Auditboard is beneficial
• Professional qualifications (CIA, ACCA, CISA, CPA or equivalent) advantageous but not essential. This client can support qualification studies.

This business offers an extremely competitive work-life balance and will see you in the office 2 to 3 x per week and travelling around 25% of the time across Europe and the US. It will also support career growth and development providing strong exposure to the business.

No sponsorship offered. Interview will be conducted in German thus your German needs to be at a comfortable level to do this.