Internal Auditor North America

Introduction:

Our client is a highly renowned and rapidly growing Industrial / Manufacturing giant with operations across the US and internationally.

They develop and sell the top products worldwide for their niche range. Their extensive worldwide client base ensures they are constantly busy and growing as a business.

This has therefore necessitated a new Internal Auditor to join their Pan American team and report to the Manager of the Internal Audit team.

Due to their ongoing plans for growth and development, they now require a mid-level experienced Operational Internal Auditor with approximately 3-10 years of hands-on internal audit experience within a manufacturing type of business (not banking/insurance backgrounds). You will have a thorough understanding of financial, operational, IT, and HR audits or investigations.

Responsibilities:

• Review and test the designs and effectiveness of internal controls
• Identify and make recommendations for improvements in the internal controls
• Support the management teams to optimize the internal controls
• Take responsibility for assessing compliance levels and apply new or make changes to procedures
• Review the controls and make sure they are efficient and effective for the daily business operations
• Ensure any reported information is accurate and correct
• Examine all the financial records, IT storage products & internal controls to check there has been no mismanagement, or wastage of resources or fraud
• Do a risk analysis and audit programme
• Evaluate management procedures and operations. Make sure the business is running properly and efficiently as possible and sticking to agreed company policies and regulations
• Review records relating to expenditure, taxes, costs & internal controls to ensure they are compliant and the business is secure from a financial perspective
• Look at business operations and programs and see if results are consistent with business objectives
• Analyze the audit findings with auditor managers and company management
• Assist with due diligence processes

Candidate Profile:

• A US accounting degree and/or qualification and 3–10 years’ experience
• Ideally from a production/manufacturing business background
• Internal audit/financial controlling and accounting, Big 4 background
• A good understanding of cost accounting and inventory & stock control