Senior Internal Auditor Early Career (2-4 Years' Experience)

Sits within Audit, Risk & Controls, an independent and objective function that acts as a value-add business partner, supporting the company in navigating risks and opportunities to achieve its business objectives. Its purpose is to deliver high-quality work and specialist insight that enables the team to provide credible conclusions and practical value. The auditor works with colleagues across different markets, functions and end-to-end processes, gaining insight into how the organisation operates, and their work can inform decisions at the highest levels, with key insights and results presented to senior leadership and the Executive Board.

• Support and execute all phases of audit projects — planning, execution, completion and reporting, and follow-up — with limited supervision, completing quality, thorough and fact-based documentation throughout all deliverables.
• Participate in audit risk assessments and project scope definition, organise and attend planning inquiry meetings, collect and review relevant information in advance of projects, and support preparation of opening presentations.
• Execute audit procedures and work programmes in a timely manner, concluding project work with fair and objective results including the audit rating.
• Update the Project Lead and Project Reviewer on all key observations, react to feedback continuously, validate issues and collaboratively identify solutions with stakeholders such as audit entity management and HQ functions.
• Document detailed observations and recommendations, contribute to closing presentation and audit report content, support the Project Lead in determining the audit rating, and present topics of responsibility during the audit closing meeting.
• Perform cross-reviews and quality checks of completed deliverables as appropriate.
• Execute accurate and insightful data analytics by identifying opportunities and data sources, exploring and extracting data in relevant systems such as SAP, and analysing and visualising results to deliver impactful, actionable insights to key stakeholders.
• Monitor the implementation of audit recommendations as part of follow-up.
• Identify and implement improvements to processes and tools, and support or lead the delivery of small- to medium-scale team initiatives.
• Apply approved AI and automation responsibly to enhance quality and efficiency, testing and improving AI-enabled workflows or agents where relevant, while protecting information, validating outputs and retaining accountability for all conclusions and deliverables.

• University degree in a business-related discipline such as accounting/controlling/finance, business administration or international business.
• 2-3 years of assurance, advisory or consulting experience, preferably within a multi-national organisation or professional services firm.
• Strong interest, passion or practical experience in the consumer products industry.
• Fluent English.
• Willingness to travel globally, approximately 40% of the time.
• Solution-oriented, adaptable, self-motivated, driven and committed team player with integrity and perseverance, able to accept and meet deadlines with effective time management, a sense of priorities and agility.
• Good analytical capabilities to manage a large volume of information from various sources such as interviews and data and derive meaningful observations.
• Good interpersonal skills combined with a high degree of customer orientation, able to adapt and navigate easily within a changing environment and complex organisations and to connect with a variety of functions, audiences
• Management styles and cultures to create and foster stakeholder relationships.
• Curious and growth-oriented mindset, keen to learn and approach subjects outside of the comfort zone, able to think critically and bring in different perspectives.
• Able to present and communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally.
• Willingness to learn and responsibly apply digital and AI-enabled tools.

• Professional designations such as CIA, CPA, CISA, CRMA or CFE.
• Additional languages beyond English.
• Experience with data analytics.
• Practical experience with AI, automation or building AI agents.

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