“Exiting Career Move for an Ambitious High Potential”
SGS is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 95,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 2,400 offices and laboratories around the world. We provide competitive advantage, drive sustainability and deliver trust. At SGS, we are continually pushing ourselves to deliver innovative services and solutions that help our customers move their businesses forward.
We are looking for passionate, bright and analytical professional(s) with a business risk focus for our small regional audit teams, which are based in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Eastern and Western Europe. This role gives the candidate an exposure to our expanding service portfolio, business strategy, quite diverse operations and high level business risks as well as interactions with our senior management and decision makers.
Miejsce pracy: Cały Kraj / Francja
- Performs diverse risk and assurance assignments of our offices and laboratories including
- Operational reviews of key business operational processes
- Assessments of key financial process controls at country head offices
- Post-acquisition integration reviews and special projects
- At offices ranging from small to large and throughout the region, but with potential for involvement in global projects
- Identifies risk control gaps in processes and proposes constructive and practical solutions to management.
- Applies our risk focused audit approach utilizing a leading comprehensive audit and risk management software solution.
- Participates in improvement of our audit practices and methodologies, and in the creation of risk and control guidance material for process owners
- Builds and maintains effective working relationship with country and senior management teams
- The Supervisory Auditor and Team leader is responsible for all aspects of the mission from setting the scope, audit approach and risk focus, through the day to day management of the field audit work by a small team, up to the delivery of the reports
- University degree plus 4 to 6 years’ experience (more for the supervisory role) acquired through working at an external audit firm, complemented with some years in assurance, process control or risk role
- Sound understanding of controls & risks and their application in the business environment
- Possess an internationally recognized business or financial professional certification.
- Must have work experience and exposure in the region
- 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
- Prefers professional self-assessment of a process, rather than just executing compliance type tests on transactions
- Must enjoy working in challenging work environments with short audit cycles and be able to adapt quickly to different assignments or businesses
- Good influencing and inter-personal communication skills
- Global working language is English, but fluency in French and/or Spanish or Russian is desirable
- The role requires significant travelling
- The Supervisory Audit and Team leader must have hands on experience in leading a small team or senior auditors in the field
