[Hiring] Senior Internal Auditor @Wolseley Group

Role Description

This role will serve as a joint role, working on both Field and Corporate audit teams.

Field

• The Senior Internal Auditor will report to the Senior Manager – Internal Audit, leading and executing field audits across our branch & distribution center network, primarily in Canada, and supporting US locations as needed.
• Ensuring quality and consistency through workpaper documentation and reviews.
• Maintaining responsibility for drafting audit reports and leading audit close meetings.
• Taking an active role in location selection and other program planning activities.
• Working in a team environment to gain a deep understanding of business processes and evaluate process effectiveness and efficiency of control procedures and systems within our field network.
• Collaborating with various stakeholder groups to summarize results and coordinate action plans, encompassing financial, operational, and legal/compliance aspects.

Corporate

• The Senior Internal Auditor plays an important role in assessing and enhancing business processes and internal controls across Wolseley’s business units.
• Conducting risk-based operational, financial, and compliance audits as well as other special projects that provide assurance on Wolseley’s internal control environment or advise on improvements in effectiveness, efficiency, and risk management.
• Executing the complete audit cycle including planning, risk assessment, fieldwork, and reporting.

Location

• This role is approved to be fully remote and can be based anywhere in Canada that is near a readily accessible commercial airport.
• Must be available to work East Coast hours.

What You Will Do

• Integrates the IPPF components into audit engagements to ensure conformance with mandatory requirements and leading practices.
• Develops and executes the audit program, communicates engagement objectives and scope to stakeholders, documents process walkthroughs and flowcharts, develops analytical procedures and sample-based testing, and gathers evidence to support conclusions.
• Drafts engagement findings and assists with compiling into a draft report and distributing results to management.
• Presents findings in close meetings with stakeholders.
• Leads audit engagements, facilitating discussions with management on risk mitigation efforts and the feasibility of process improvements.
• Performs first-level review of workpapers as appropriate and provides coaching notes to audit team, focusing on development and feedback.
• Evaluates fraud risk assessment processes and controls, conducts audit procedures to identify and analyze potential fraud indicators, and identifies discrepancies between established fraud procedures and gathered evidence, discussing possible root causes with management.
• Participates in meetings and collaborates with management to coordinate assurance coverage and reduce redundant testing.
• Evaluates compliance programs' effectiveness in providing information to governance bodies, monitoring compliance objectives, providing training, assessing adherence to regulations and policies, and recommending improvements to control processes.
• Evaluates governance, risk management, and control processes over financial processes, assesses risks related to misstatements and noncompliance, and identifies discrepancies in control processes.
• Understands the fundamental processes of supply chain management, including strategic sourcing, contract and vendor relationship management, procurement, warehousing, forward and reverse logistics, and inventory management.
• Applies ethical principles in audit work, ensuring impartiality and adherence to professional responsibilities.
• Executes audit work in conformance with the Standards and expectations established within the quality assurance and improvement program (QAIP).
• Responsible for communicating engagement objectives and scope, scheduling and organizing meetings, drafting agendas, writing meeting minutes, identifying follow-up actions, updating project progress reports, and applying effective questioning techniques to enhance audit interviews and discussions.
• Collaborates and liaises with stakeholders and executive leadership to develop relationships and facilitate the achievement of objectives.
• Demonstrates conflict management skills when resolving minor disagreements with management over the timing and scope of an engagement and seeks support from the engagement supervisor when appropriate.
• Applies data analytics techniques to identify patterns, anomalies, and trends in data as part of the planning and fieldwork for internal audit engagements.
• Seeks out technological solutions (AI, automation) to create efficiencies in the testing process.
• Skilled at identifying and effectively articulating the root cause component of the control failure.
• Demonstrates strong project management and time management skills to ensure engagement objectives are achieved and deadlines are met.
• Proactively takes initiative and ownership in achieving assigned objectives, ensuring the delivery of high-quality audit work, and continuously developing skillsets.
• Demonstrates well-developed problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Team player, collaborative and exhibits flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.
• Assists in the recruitment of new staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related area; Advanced degree is a plus.
• Minimum of 3 years’ progressive experience in internal/external audit, accounting, or finance.
• Experience running/leading small teams.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite including PowerBI and Visio; knowledge of Workday, AuditBoard/Optro, Oracle, Sage X3 a plus.
• Experience working in a remote environment a plus.
• Bilingual in French and English a plus.
• Certification required prior to hire date for the role. Other certifications not listed below will be considered for applicability:
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) - Information Systems Audit and Control Association.
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) - The Institute of Internal Auditors - North America.
• Chartered Professional Accountant or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) - American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
• Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) – Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Requirements

• Travel 25-40%, including travel to the United States; for remote staff, travel to Newport News HQ at minimum annually in addition to audit location travel.

Benefits

• Job posting Range: $78,000 to $88,000 + 10% MIP.
• The total compensation range posted for this role represents the total compensation opportunity, which may include base wage, bonuses, commissions, and/or other monetary components, if applicable.
• Placement in the range will be based on factors such as market conditions, internal equity, candidate experience, skills and qualifications relevant to the role.