Corporate Commercial Auditor

Corporate Commercial Auditor

Responsibilities and Duties

• Company Internal Control Systems (ICS)
  • Stimulates the conceptual design, improvement, and realization of Company ICS by giving professional input.
  • Initiates the revision of specific management systems.
  • Drives the continuous improvement of the ICS in the operating units of the Company due to identified deficits in conducted audits.
  • Supports the Management board, the Managers of the BU, SBF, operating units as well as Functions/Services of the Company in their control and supervision role. 
• Auditing
  • Self-dependent planning and execution of system audits and compliance audits to safeguard the legality and regularity and to grant efficient processes and system-controls in order to strive for sustainable risk reduction in all organizational units of the Company and their major shareholding.
  • Assessment of the systems according to Company standards, local legal requirements, and international guidelines.
  • Self-reliant determination of focus areas of the audited units.
  • Identification of current risks and escalation of the risks to the next higher management level within the management structure of the Company.
• Communication of Audit Results
  • Documentation of the audit findings and binding agreement of measures to eliminate the findings mentioned in the audit report.
  • Presents, explains, and discusses audit results with the management of the audited unit.
  • Advocates audit findings towards local management, SBF- and BU-Manager or Manager of the Function/Service.
  • Self-contained monitoring of the on-time implementation of the measures described in the audit report and agreed with the unit (follow-up process).
• Continuous Improvement
  • Indicates best practice-solutions to eliminate identified weaknesses.
  • Organizes, initiates, advises, and accompanies continuous improvement processes of the units.
  • Enhances existing standards for audit procedures and replenishes them with new emerging audit topics.
  • Drives the advancement of audit tools (checklists, reports, data analyses, software tools).
• Information
  • Informs the operating and functional units about the actual situation and new insights in the respective areas of responsibility.
  • Collaborates in teams/network with audit experts, experts in the functional area, colleagues, and external companies in an international environment.
• Other
  • Maintenance of audit archives and documentations according to legal or Company internal requirements. 
  • Requires ~40-50% travel to Company Business Units.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in economics or related field
• 1-3 years of operating experience as internal auditor; experience in commercial subject areas (e.g. Finance, Sales, Supply chain, IT) beneficial but not mandatory
• Fluent in English, other languages beneficial
• Presentation skills
• Knowledge of Internal Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Skills as project manager
• Excellent analytical skills
• Experience in complex and difficult processes and internal control systems
• MS-Office, SAP