Senior Principal, Internal Audit Excellence and Accountability

Company Description

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

Job Description

We are on the lookout for a Senior Principal, Internal Audit Excellence and Accountability to join the Internal Audit team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences. 

Reporting directly to the Global Head of Internal Audit | Chief Audit Executive (CAE), you will play a pivotal leadership role in strengthening governance, accountability, and internal control discipline across all business areas. You will be expected to bring presence, confidence, and credibility — ensuring that audit insights translate into measurable improvements, that management actions are delivered on time, and that the function’s strategic influence continues to expand across the enterprise. This role requires a combination of deep internal audit expertise, sound business judgment, and the ability to influence, challenge, and engage effectively with senior executives across a complex global organization.

• Lead and elevate the internal audit program across finance, operations, technology, and compliance, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, strategic objectives, and regulatory expectations.

• Represent Internal Audit as a credible and influential partner to senior management, capable of engaging in executive-level dialogue, challenging decisions constructively, and influencing outcomes through evidence-based insights.

• Ensure timely remediation of audit findings, maintaining robust follow-up and escalation protocols to drive accountability and transparency at all levels of the organization.

• Enhance communication and stakeholder engagement, ensuring that audit messages are clear, persuasive, and tailored to senior audiences, including the Audit Committee and Board.

• Promote a culture of integrity, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring that audit recommendations result in sustainable operational and control enhancements.

• Drive team development and succession planning, strengthening leadership capability and fostering an environment that encourages assertiveness, professional growth, and independent thinking.

• Uphold the highest standards of audit quality, documentation, and reporting, ensuring consistency, clarity, and alignment with professional standards.

• Leverage technology and analytics to enhance audit effectiveness, coverage, and efficiency.

• Collaborate with the CAE and other senior leaders to refine the long-term internal audit strategy, expanding the function’s role as a trusted advisor and strategic enabler

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in internal audit, risk management, assurance, operations or business transformation, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role within a complex, multinational environment.

• Proven ability to influence and challenge senior executives with confidence, tact, and professionalism.

• Experience engaging with IT and cybersecurity stakeholders is advantageous.

• Demonstrated excellence in executive communication, including report writing, presentation delivery, and Audit Committee engagement.

• Strong strategic and commercial awareness, able to connect audit insights with business priorities and emerging risks.

• Experience leading and developing high-performing, globally distributed teams, including succession planning and leadership pipeline development.

• Strong follow-through and accountability orientation, ensuring issues are resolved and commitments honored.

• High level of integrity, sound professional judgment, and resilien