Head - Internal Audit - Manufacturing/Consumer/Retail/E-commerce

Governance and mandate:

- The Internal Audit Charter, including scope, access rights, independence safeguards and the defined transition of functional reporting to the Audit Committee

- The annual enterprise risk assessment, and its conversion into a risk-based audit plan for board approval

- The quarterly Internal Audit pack to the CFO, board or Audit Committee

Audit execution:

- Management of the appointed internal auditor and any co-sourced partners: scope, plan, fee, quality of output, and adherence to ICAI Standards on Internal Audit

- Personally leading audits across high-risk, high-judgement areas

- Building data-led audit capability following our SAP go-live, moving from sampling to full-population testing and continuous monitoring

Findings and closure:

- A single tracker of all open findings across internal audit, statutory audit management letters and control reviews

- Driving findings to genuine closure with named owners and dates, and escalating ageing items

- Ensuring no finding recurs year on year without explanation

Fraud and investigations:

- Establishing the protocol for whistleblower and fraud investigations

- Leading or overseeing investigations as required

Essential:

- Chartered Accountant

- 8 - 10 years post-qualification, with a substantial internal audit or risk advisory core.

- Experience running risk-based internal audit in a manufacturing, consumer, retail or e-commerce business

- Demonstrated ability to work with transaction data at population level, using SQL, Python, Alteryx, Power BI or equivalent

- The personal weight to deliver an uncomfortable finding to a function head and hold the line on it

Strongly preferred:

- Exposure to an ERP implementation, ideally SAP, including control design, segregation of duties and post-go-live review

- Exposure to IPO readiness, ICFR or internal financial controls frameworks