Major accountabilities:

• Lead effective audit teams throughout assignments in different divisions and functional areas taking responsibility for the team members, including delivering on-boarding and coaching to new team members and guest auditors to provide technical support and feedback.
• Rate potential and capacity of team members and provide feedback to IA management.
• Mastering key company policies that Internal Audit provides assurance on, including their implementing guidelines and procedures.
• Apply effective project management to audit assignments in order to deliver work which meets quality standards, deadlines and the expectations of stakeholders.
• Identify root causes of control issues and investigate, analyse and test possible solutions or measures for improvement.
• Prepare audit reports and review and agree issues with responsible management.
• Establish and maintain key-contact relationships with local management in assigned countries and/or functional area(s) of responsibility to support the Regional Head Internal Audit (RHIA) in assessing risk across the region and developing the annual audit plan.
• Lead the risk-prioritized planning of standard operational audits and support audit managers and the Regional Head of internal audit in the planning of more complex audits on enterprise risks without pre-defined control frameworks.

Minimum Requirements:

Work Experience:

• Industry/ Business Exposure.
• Critical Negotiations.
• Cross Cultural Experience.
• Operations Management and Execution.
• Project Management.
• Functional Breadth.

Skills:

• Data analytics.
• Audit Planning.
• Auditing Life Sciences.
• Audit Risk Assessment.
• Audit Reporting.
• Audit Methodology: Identifying and Testing Controls for Business Risk.

Languages :

• English.

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