UKI Risk Consulting - Process & Controls (Internal Audit, Internal Controls/SOX), Senior Consultant

Risk Consulting – Process and Controls (Internal Audit, Internal Controls / SOX), Senior Consultant

 

General Information

Location: Dublin / Belfast / Cork

Available for Visa Sponsorship: No

Business Area: Risk Consulting

Contract Type: Full-Time – Permanent

 

The Team and the opportunity

We are seeking a risk professional to join our Risk Consulting practice, within the Process and Controls team.  Risk Consulting is an integral part of our Consulting Services business, focused on providing high value, independent and trusted advice to clients.

 

Working in our Process and Controls team, you will have the opportunity to work with a variety of global and local clients to provide practical risk management, internal controls and process improvement solutions, gaining valuable experience. You will work within different sized, multi-disciplinary teams and play a key role in ensuring high quality outputs and service to our clients. The role involves developing knowledge and implementing new solutions to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients.

 

We have ambitious plans to continue strengthening and growing our offering within Risk Consulting and are looking for a dynamic individual to help us support this area of the practice, to form part of our existing team and to help us deliver our ambitious growth targets in this area.

 

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior Consultant in our Risk Consulting practice, you will be responsible for delivering to a broad portfolio of clients and engagements simultaneously, collaborating with a sizeable team and supporting the growth of our business. You will be a key member of the Process and Controls Team reporting directly to the Engagement Managers.

 

You will have responsibility for.

• Supporting a portfolio of engagements with our clients.

• Collaborating with clients to agree, scope and plan the delivery phase of engagements.

• Delivering the fieldwork phase of engagement and drafting reportable findings for management review.

• Working as part of a team to deliver projects, with the ability to lead teams and manage more junior members of staff.

• Support management on the presentation of our reports and findings to Audit Committees.

• Contributing to developing the market for Internal Audit and Internal Controls services.

• Supporting the development of our junior team members and acting as mentor and coach.

 

Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A strong track record in the delivery of Internal Audit, Internal Controls / SOX Services
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the areas above.
• You will be a motivated self-starter, with the ambition to drive a team and support continued growth.
• You will have experience in supporting business development activities.
• You will be experienced in presenting to Engagement Management teams and have demonstrable business acumen and risk and controls knowledge.
• Excellence in oral and written communication and reporting writing are essential.
• We would expect candidates to have knowledge and experience in:
  • Internal audit, in both financial and operational processes.
  • Internal Controls / SOX
  • Utilising core risk and controls skills in a broad range of projects both in traditional internal audit and in advisory projects aimed at assisting in the implementation of controls / improvements.
  • Project Management.

Ideally, you will also have

• Background in professional services environment where you have gained extensive experience in practice management.
• Ideally you will hold a relevant professional qualification e.g. qualified Accountant or Internal Auditor (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or IIA).
• We are particularly interested in people with experience in TMT, Life Sciences, Consumer Products, Advanced Manufacturing and Power & Utilities Sectors.

What we look for

Highly motivated, good communicators and able to establish personal credibility with clients. You will need to convey technical content in business language with client management. You wil