Senior Auditor will be a member of our global internal audit team responsible for conducting risk and assurance assignments across the SGS internal network (country head offices and shared service centers) covering financial and business processes.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Identify risk control gaps in processes and propose constructive and practical solutions.
• Apply a risk focused audit approach using a leading comprehensive internal audit software solution.
• Participate in improving our audit practices and methodologies, and in the creation of risk and control guidance material for process owners.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with country & senior management teams.
• Deliver quality work within agreed deadlines and with limited guidance / support.

Qualifications

• University degree in Economics, Finance or a related course
• Minimum five years of experience at an external audit firm, and/or working in an internal audit, assurance, risk or finance role.
• Sound understanding of controls and risks and their application to the business environment.
• Possession of an internationally recognized business or financial professional certification (such as CIA or CPA).
• Able to make a professional assessment of a process rather than just executing compliance type tests on transactions.
• Experience working in an Oracle ERP environment is an added advantage
• Data analytics experience is an added advantage
• Fluent in English (verbal, written), French will be an added advantage
• Able to travel around 70% of the time.
• Driven to deliver professional quality work within agreed deadline and with limited guidance and support.
• Excellent writing skills to enable direct delivery of reports at senior management level.
• Must enjoy working in challenging work environments with short audit cycles and can adopt quickly to different assignments or businesses.
• Good influencing and inter-personal communication skills.