Title: Senior Internal Auditor
Aberdeen (Westhill), GB London (Sutton), GB
Overview
Subsea7 is seeking a Senior Internal Auditor to join its Internal Audit function. This role offers an opportunity to work within a specialist team responsible for providing independent assurance over the effectiveness of the Group’s risk management, governance, and internal control processes.
Reporting to a Senior Internal Audit Manager, the selected candidate will take a direct role in delivering high quality, insightful audit engagements and timely reports. Audit assignments will cover a broad range of areas, including financial, operational (e.g. Projects, Supply Chain Management, Tendering), and various compliance processes.
What will you be doing?
- Manage the planning of assigned audit engagements, taking full ownership of scoping, including identifying key areas, balances, and transactions to be tested, and presenting these to Internal Audit Management for review and sign-off.
- Perform detailed audit fieldwork, including testing of balances and transactions, and agreeing identified exceptions with the business.
- Prepare comprehensive and accurate audit working papers that clearly document procedures performed and support audit findings related to the effectiveness of control environments.
- Collaborate with the business to identify root causes of audit findings and ensure that proposed management actions appropriately address the associated risks.
- Draft internal audit reports, or parts thereof, for review by Internal Audit Management prior to submission to Senior Management.
- Present audit findings at closing meetings to Senior Management across the Group.
- Monitor and follow up on agreed audit actions to ensure timely closure and receipt of sufficient supporting evidence.
- Support the Internal Audit team, including more junior and or seconded internal auditors, in the course of their work, and with additional ad hoc assignments and departmental initiatives as required.
- Help promote continuous improvement within the internal audit function and the wider business.
What experience would we like you to have?
- Solid financial acumen, ideally supported by a recognised professional qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA).
- Current experience within a commercially focused internal audit function. Experience auditing long term construction contracts, or working in a capital intensive industry desirable.
- Effective communication and report-writing skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and effectively.
- Strong ability to understand and analyse business processes, identify control gaps and propose practical solutions.
- Analytical and forward‑thinking, with the ability to anticipate risks and support the development of mitigation strategies.
- Solid understanding of risk management principles and internal control frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and analyse large volumes of audit samples, ensuring timely follow-up and resolution of queries.
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