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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.

Visit us at - www.smiths.com

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.

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