Vacancy: Senior Internal Auditor

Location:
Royston or London

Duration: Permanent

Job Family: Finance

Job Purpose

The Group Assurance and Risk Team's role is to protect the people, assets, reputation and drive efficiency and sustainability of Johnson Matthey through the provision of risk management and independent assurance over the control environment. The primary purpose of this role is to support the Group Team in delivering its objectives through the delivery of the audit plan and supporting the businesses to identify, assess, mitigate and manage their risks.

The Senior Internal Auditor's prime responsibility is the execution of assigned operational, financial or other audits and investigative activities; which consist of a planning, fieldwork and reporting, while maintaining frequent proactive communication and interaction with all stakeholders and build up of broad network within the business partnering capacity.

The role will involve supporting the Assurance Function in maintaining high quality of the audit process, continuous improvement of its methodologies and tools and other activities that support implementation of function's new strategy, as appropriate. The role will require working closely with broad group of stakeholders, including senior management across sectors and corporate functions as well with JM Internal Audit Co-source provider, when needed.

Key responsibilities

Provide independent assurance that the right activities are in place to mitigate identified risks; Plan, execute and report on discrete audit projects in a timely manner and in accordance with the audit, and risk methodologies; Increase use and adoption of data analytics and efficiencies as part of the audit process; Engage with and / or direct / supervise other staff members (guest auditors from the business / co-source staff) to ensure engagements are completed appropriately and on time; Efficiently identify risks, mitigating control activities and tests of control activities for audit purposes; Monitor and report on the status of outstanding actions; Interpret policies and procedures relating to role and function, contribute to improvement of work processes to ensure they are kept in line with current best practice; Take the lead on implementing specific strategic workstreams to help make the function more efficient, agile, effective in its operation and reporting as well as adoption of digital capabilities; Work closely and support the regional teams; Develop subject matter expertise around specific business risks. Are you the ideal candidate?

You will have:

Experience in technology enabled business transformation and change management;Professional certification such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, CIA, or CPA;Experience in risk-based auditing across a range of processes using the latest audit methodologies and techniques with specific focus on application of digital and data analytics;Experience in working with multi-faceted technology platforms relating to databases and operating systems; together with developing scripts for data extraction from SAP environment;Strong business partnership capabilities;Orientated to develop deep subject matter expertise in specific risk areas relevant to JM audit universe.How to apply:

Internal applicants should advise their manager before applying. If you have the necessary skills and experience to join our team, please apply online.

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis. The closing date is 25th September.