M Group Services – Internal Auditor

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive. Where will you be working? As an organisation, there is little we don’t do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom. This role is in our Group Assurance department, Group Assurance is made up of our risk management, business continuity and internal audit professionals. They provide independent insight, advice and assurance. What will you be doing? You’ll be working as part of a team to deliver a broad range of financial and operational audits, from planning through to completion. You’ll be ensuring the audits are completed to the required quality standards and timeframe, evaluating the effectiveness of controls and identifying control gaps, themes and insights. You'll be producing concise, high quality written reports and work papers. You're following audit actions through to completion. You’ll be contributing to projects to improve processes and systems, as well as other assurance work such as fraud investigations. You’ll input into our strategy and the continued development of the Group Assurance function, including keeping up to date with wider developments in our industry and the Internal Audit profession.

What you’ll bring:

• Knowledge of auditing standards, principles and techniques

• Team management experience

• Experience in performing audits, including conducting risk assessments, setting objectives and scope, information gathering, and testing

• Can gather, analyse and interpret information to draw suitable conclusions.

• Project management skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage audits/other activities to agreed upon deadlines

• Strong, clear and succinct communication skills with the ability to influence others, including senior management

• Have the highest standards of ethics and integrity in making judgements and can question others in an objective and constructive manner

What’s in it for you? We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme

• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year

• Employee assistance programme

• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts

• Life assurance

• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes

• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave

• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car or car allowance and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from

• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme

• Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family

• Discretionary bonus scheme

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About Us We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet

• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations

• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts

• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

POSITION SPECIFICATION

ROLE : Group Internal Auditor – Irish

LOCATION : Dublin

OBJECTIVES

• Plans, executes and reports on audits / reviews assigned by the Group Head of Internal Audit & Compliance.

• Interprets policy and procedures and applies professional accounting, IT and auditing principles and standards to test and evaluate financial, IT, operational and risk management controls.

• Develops recommendations which have been agreed with management ensuring that the recommendations are realistic and achievable and cost effective and add value to the business.

• Build positive working relationships with Head Office and Divisional management teams to ensure mutual understanding of the role of internal audit and work with them on business process and internal control improvements.

• Communicate with key external parties such as auditors and relevant agencies.

• Performs other duties as assigned including ad hoc projects and special investigations as deemed appropriate by the Audit & Compliance Committee.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

QUALIFICATIONS

• The candidate will be a qualified ACCA or local equivalent.

• Ideally Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), or willing to take those exams.

EXPERIENCE

• An experienced External & / or Internal Audit professional in an international, ideally manufacturing group.

• Has operated in a Big 4 and a plc environment for a number of years.

• Has the ability to strike an appropriate balance between independence and common sense.

• Risk based approach.

• Familiarity with computer aided audit techniques.

• Familiarity with IT General Controls auditing.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Native Irish.

• Highly motivated with the ability to work on his / her own initiative.

• High level of personal and professional integrity.

• Able to influence and engage people at all levels across the Group.

• Credible, flexible, personable and team oriented.

• Strong problem solving abilities.

• Sound business judgement and an ability to be decisive.

• Clarity of thought with the ability to analyst complex business situations.

• Good negotiation skills.

• Excellent communication skills both written and oral.

• Able to work to deadlines.

REPORTS TO : Group Internal Audit Manager

SCREENING PROCESS

1. Phone interview with Group Head of Internal Audit & Compliance

2. Phone interview with Group Internal Audit Manager

3. Meeting with Group Head of Internal Audit & Compliance + case study

TRAVEL : Regular travel (about 30 weeks travel per year) will be required to the Group’s overseas subsidiaries

(+225 manufacturing locations worldwide)

TIMESCALE : First round interviews in June 2025