Internal Audit Manager – Birmingham

Smiths Group designs, manufactures and delivers smarter engineering solutions for mission-critical applications, solving some of the world's toughest problems for our customers, our communities and our world. For over 170 years, Smiths Group has been pioneering progress by improving the world through smarter engineering.

We serve millions of people every year, to help create a safer, more efficient and better-connected world, across four major global markets: Energy, General Industry, Security & Defence, and Aerospace. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs 14,600 colleagues in over 50+ countries.

This pioneering spirit continues to drive us today, underpinned by our powerful culture. Improving our world is what we do, how we think, and how we will continue to use our passion for technology and engineering to tackle our customers biggest challenges today and in the future.

We're looking for people with curious minds. Who want responsibility and relish a challenge. Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting out, our global scale and focus on growth means we have some great career opportunities for you. There's never been a better time to join Smiths.

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Reporting to the Head of Internal Audit, this position forms a key part of the Internal Audit & Risk Management function. The role is responsible for delivering assurance over the financial and operational control environment across Smiths Group for the Audit Committee. The successful candidate will join a FTSE100 international organisation and will be entrusted with managing a diverse portfolio of audits, offering significant responsibility and professional challenge. The role includes domestic and international travel of up to 35%.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute a broad range of internal audits across the Group, ensuring the delivery of high‑quality reports and associated outputs.
• Support the Group’s risk management framework by leading risk workshops with senior stakeholders and contributing to the enterprise‑wide risk management programme.
• Maintain and enhance the risk‑based audit plan and audit universe, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and emerging risks.
• Develop and sustain effective working relationships with stakeholders across divisions and Group functions.
• Assist in the preparation of Audit Committee materials and other governance reporting as required.
• Take ownership of designated departmental activities, including KPI reporting, audit observation tracking, and data analytics.
• Contribute to the evolution of the Internal Audit methodology and the development of the annual audit plan.

Technical Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Educated to degree level with a recognised Accountancy qualification; (eg: ACA/ACCA)
• Previous internal or external audit experience (ideally with one of the Big 4);
• Fluent written and spoken English;
• Highly organised, keen attention to detail;
• Comfortable taking responsibility for the end to end audit process (from planning phase to the issuance of high-quality reports);
• Effective communicator across all levels within a business and ability to produce high-quality written reports (all audit reports are distributed across the Group and read by the Board);
• Able to deal with ambiguity and complexity;
• Ability to deal with multiple competing deadlines and projects;
• Ability to understand existing processes / ways of working and the curiosity to challenge and improve them;
• Ability to influence and partner senior stakeholders to agree and drive Audit actions through to completion;
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, energetic with excellent collaboration and influencing skills in order to be able to demonstrate personal credibility to the business.

Position:

Senior Corporate Auditor

Job Description:

Arrow Corporate Audit’s mission is to deliver responsive risk-based audit and advisory services in a spirit of partnership with objectivity, fairness, transparency, and in accordance with our professional and ethical standards to our stakeholders. This role in instrumental in achieving that mission.

This role sits within the rapidly expanding EMEA Corporate Audit Team and is primarily based in London, although audit engagements and projects will be executed throughout the EMEA region.

Senior Auditors are a crucial business partner to Arrow businesses, departments and other key stakeholders. They execute high quality, value-adding projects in a managed, professional, detailed, diligent and collegiate manner. They are credible and are able to communicate complicated issues and the concept of risk and risk management to non-finance based individuals as well as senior executives and business leaders throughout the Arrow organization.

Our Senior Auditors are the team captains and are charged with leading delivery of our audit and advisory services across our global organization address all areas of enterprise risk management (strategic, financial, operational, compliance, and reputational) and establishing the team culture. They demonstrate thorough knowledge and a proven record of success in completing aspects of the Internal Audit process, control evaluation and testing methodologies, and other Financial and Operational Internal Control methodologies and terminology e.g. COSO.

Arrow Senior Auditors are agile thinkers and are able to react, adjust their project scope and procedures and problem solve where required. They are able to see the wider-risk and form an opinion on the level to which it is mitigated. They are able to execute a bespoke engagement to deliver specific assurance on a stated goal and they do not rely on thoughtlessly executing a standard, repetitive work-program. Consequently, Arrow Senior Auditors are a highly prized team-member, whose experiences, feedback and input are invaluable to the function as it seeks to constantly evolve, improve and provide gold standard audit projects to the business.

What will you be doing at Arrow?

• Leading teams, emphasizing the supervising of staff by creating a positive working environment through the building of solid relationships with team members; the monitoring of workloads of all team members; adjustment and redistribution of assignments accordingly to promote work/life quality, the taking into account of team members capabilities and needs and meeting of business partner expectations; encouragement of team dialogue; the providing of candid, meaningful feedback in a timely manner; and the keeping of team members and leadership informed on progress and issues.
• Using available technical resources and tools to research and expand one's sphere of knowledge to enhance work product, and to remain up to date on hot topics affecting Arrow's business and industry while sharing the knowledge with the team where applicable.
• Collaborating directly with key stakeholders in the organization, identifying and addressing needs through building solid relationships with stakeholders; understanding the Company’s business; and actively participating in discussions and meetings.
• Managing day-to-day engagement operations, including preparing concise, accurate documents and addressing unanticipated issues; demonstrating flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks; and communicating potential conflicts to leadership.
• Develop and or review audit programs, benchmark financial and operational processes as well as perform process optimization.
• Creating high quality deliverable using appropriate business and technical language, especially developing and reviewing audit programs or testing steps, adapting an audit program to suit a specific environment, and/or designing special projects evaluation and testing work plans.
• Involved with and contributing to specific company wide strategies and initiatives.

What are we looking for?

• At least 4/5 years audit or consulting experience preferably in Manufacturing, Distribution/ Supply Chain Industry.
• Education background: CPA/ ACA/ CIA/ CMA or MBA preferred.
• Business Fluency in English language.
• Willingness to travel (Domestic & International) up to 40%.
• Experience of working in Big 4 companies preferred.
• Strong skills in Microsoft tools especially in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Exposure to Oracle, AX, or similar systems.
• Data Analytics (ACL, Cognos, Visual Basic, Power BI etc.).

Global IT Audit Lead

Ornua (meaning “new gold”) is Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products, proudly bringing the unique taste of Irish dairy to the world for over 55 years.

Are you a senior IT Audit professional looking for a global opportunity? Do you enjoy collaborating with stakeholders at all levels across the business, including the C-Suite? Do you want to join a progressive, successful Irish organisation with unrivalled career progression and opportunities at home and abroad?

If so, Ornua is actively seeking a Global IT Audit Lead to join their Internal Audit team covering operations in Ireland, UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa and North America.

About Ornua:
Ornua is a leading dairy co-operative which sells premium dairy products globally on behalf of its Member Co-operatives, Ireland’s dairy processors and, in turn, Irish dairy farmers.

Ornua has revenues of €3.4 billion and is supported by a global team of approximately 2,800 employees. The Group operates as a commercial organisation across 10 business units, including 12 production facilities located in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa.

The commercial organisation is responsible for the marketing and sales of Ornua’s consumer brands including Ireland’s most successful food export: Kerrygold.

Consumer markets are served by production facilities in Ireland, Germany and the UK and by in-market Sales & Marketing Teams in Asia, Germany, Ireland, MEA, Poland, Spain, rest of Europe and North and Latin America.

It also manages the procurement of Irish and non-Irish dairy products, the sale of dairy ingredients to food manufacturing and foodservice customers globally, and the implementation of de-risking and trading strategies to manage market volatility. These activities are supported by production facilities and in-market teams in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa.

The Role:

An opportunity has arisen for newly created role as an IT Audit Lead to join the team at an exciting time for the company. You will be an ambassador for the development of IT audit within Ornua by building your personal brand, collaborating with other internal teams, and presenting to Group Executives and the Audit Committee.

This role will help ensure internal controls are appropriately designed, operationally effective and are aligned with Ornua’s strategic objectives.

The position by its nature offers unique exposure to our high energy business, its operations and people. It offers interesting and challenging work across a variety of engagements. For the right candidate, this role offers the potential for significant personal development and a strong career path in the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop the global IT audit strategy aligned with organisational objectives. From this develop an annual IT Audit plan and deliver all IT audit programs.
• Advise senior leadership on IT risk posture, emerging threats, and control effectiveness, and assisting with the remediation of control deficiencies.
• Oversee planning, execution, and reporting of IT audits across all regions.
• Ensure audits cover cybersecurity, information management, cloud infrastructure, and digital transformation initiatives. Monitor compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Drive continuous improvement in IT controls and risk mitigation strategies.
• Present findings and recommendations to Audit Committee and Executive Leadership.
• Collaborate with on large Internal Audit projects with both the project and Data Analytics team.
• Collaborate with CIO, CISO, and other business leaders to strengthen IT governance.
• Complete ad hoc projects, audits, advisory projects, and investigations as they arise.

Key Requirements:

• 7+ years’ experience in information systems auditing, internal controls or compliance with a minimum of 2 years working in industry, or multinational manufacturing sector.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• Professional certifications such as CISA, CISM, or CISSP.
• Strong technical IT governance knowledge (COBIT, ITIL), cybersecurity standards (ISO 27001, NIST), IT security, operating systems, financial applications and cloud architecture (AWS, Azure).
• Good understanding of regulatory compliance (GDPR) and risk assessment methodologies.
• Track record of demonstrating an enterprise-wide and challenger mindset to drive progress and deliver on key projects.
• Ability to thrive in our co-operative environment where there is a strong emphasis on building strong stakeholder relationships within a nuanced, relationship-driven, internal structure.
• Strong report writing skills and ability to clearly communicate IT issues to non-IT personnel.
• Ability to research new technologies and identify associated controls and risks.
• Ability to identify control gaps with legacy systems and ensure appropriate mitigations are in place.
• Flexibility to travel as required to Ornua locations.

Ornua Competencies:

• Working Together: Creates and reinforces a collaborative culture within and across the organisation and sets up external strategic alliances/partnerships.
• Forward-Looking: Leads others through change and contributes to competitive challenges and functional strategic plans.
• Ownership: Empowers performance, ensures quality and delivery; rewards initiatives, courage and success and makes decisions about sustainable growth.
• Customer Focus: Advocates for the customer, balances customer, commercial and business needs, and spots opportunities for growth.

Salary and Benefits:

Competitive Salary

Pension

Bonus

Hybrid working

2 weeks work from anywhere

Paternity/Maternity benefits

Summer Hours

Plus many more

Internal Audit Manager – North America

Job Summary

Compass Group is a FTSE 20 and Fortune Global 500 company. We’re the people behind the food, hospitality and support services that power your day, make you smile and put a spring in your step. That’s just one of the reasons why we’re the World’s leading contract catering, hospitality, and business support services provider. We operate in 40 countries at more than 50,000 client locations and serving over 5.5 billion meals a year. We operate in all major sectors and industries including education, business, healthcare, government & defense, sport & leisure, offshore and hospitality. From outstanding restaurant and dining experiences in amazing venues and stadiums to feeding thousands of students, patients, workers, and military personnel, we deliver warm welcomes, clean buildings, and safe environments.

This role will be based in our Charlotte, NC office and will report directly to the Sr. Director of Global Audit Services – North America.  Working closely with the North America senior leadership teams, this role will be responsible for delivering the audit plan for North America (US and Canada) and providing support and thought leadership on risks and controls.  Overnight travel is anticipated to be 15-20%.  
 

Responsibilities 

• Plan and deliver internal audits across the North America region.
• Draft high-quality internal audit reports with concise and practical recommendations.
• Develop strong working relationships with management teams and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain the North America audit universe.
• Support the risk assessment process and annual audit planning process.  Prepare materials for the Audit Committee related to governance requirements.
• Continuous improvement of the internal audit methodology.
• Provide thought leadership in the areas of risk and controls.

Skills and capabilities

• Proactive self-starter with the ability to lead, work independently and engage with teams at all levels in the organization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential as is the ability build rapport and influence senior stakeholders.  
• Ability to translate and communicate technical or complex ideas in a simple and concise manner.
• Demonstrated ability to think holistically about risks in the context of overall business risks.
• Strong analytical skills, with strong risk awareness and understanding of processes and controls.  Data analytics experience beneficial.

Education and experience

• Minimum 5 years of audit experience including audit leadership experience 
• Strong knowledge of Internal Auditing Standards, PCAOB Standards, and COSO, etc.
• Recent (past 5 years) US SOX experience strongly preferred.
• Holds a recognized accounting/auditing certification (e.g., CPA, CIA)
• Experience in a large consumer-focused business is advantageous.  Fortune 500 experience preferred.
• Excellent PC Skills (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, electronic audit work papers, etc.)
• Experience with SAP and HFM preferred.

Job Description

The above outlines the key accountabilities of the role and the company reserves the right to vary these to suit the requirements of the business

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