Manager, Internal Auditor

About Us

Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation, a family owned business for over 75 years, takes pride in powering progress in health, security and quality of life. We are key partners with the world’s leading medical devices, semiconductor, scientific analytics and industrial systems manufacturers. When they want to push the limits of what’s possible with high voltage applications, they turn to us to make it happen.

While Spellman is not a household name, our products are used to make and often power many of the most advanced technologies that make modern life possible. With design and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe and Asia, we have become the preferred provider of high voltage power solutions for OEMs pushing the boundaries of technology around the world by designing and producing the products they need to power progress.

About the Role:

The Manager, Internal Audit, has overall responsibility for the Internal Audit function.  The position ensures Internal Audit is closely aligned with industry best practices in executing its duties across the Company’s global businesses and related financial operations.  They work to ensure roles, responsibilities, and results are efficiently coordinated and collectively optimizing the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance of the company.  The position will report directly to the Audit Committee and secondarily to the Chief Financial Officer organization.  This function will not conduct quality audits for production but may audit processes around those activities, as it assesses other operational related processes and controls.

What You Will Do:  

• Lead the performance of an annual risk assessment to identify key areas of operation or financial processes that have, or may have, the potential for misappropriations and/or where standard controls should be in place and either are not in place or have a higher than desirable risk that those controls do not operate effectively.
• Develop and maintain an annual Internal Audit Site Control Questionnaire that would be filled out by each site annually to self-assess their own risk environment and identify key controls each site and/or function relies on to mitigate any misappropriation of Company assets and resources or misuse of such.
• Execute Internal Audit’s Charter by developing and implementing action plans related to risk assessment results and will plan, conduct and report on audits performed. 
• Recruit, develop, and retain a high-quality Internal Audit function for operational, financial and system controls.
• Oversee the execution of individual audits defined in the annual audit plan, ensuring the highest level of service quality and internal client satisfaction.
• Issue all Internal Audit reports ensuring the reports are clear, concise, identify root causes with practical solutions, and ultimately provide value to management.
• Meet regularly with the Audit Committee to report the status of Internal Audit’s ongoing monitoring activities, educate/inform the Committee of emerging risks and/or exposures (whether internal or external to the company) that should be considered, and serve as a “thought leader” with respect to risk management and internal control best practices.
• Proactively inform senior management of significant risks or exposures related to internal controls, compliance, and/or governance requiring prompt attention.
• In the event, the Company determines it either best practice or mandatory due to some change in the Company, that Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) be adopted, they would update/develop process documentation to support management’s SOX assessment and Model Audit Rule compliance, with a goal to assess and reinforce the effectiveness of Company controls in complying with SOX requirements.
• Lead internal control assessments of any acquired companies or joint venture companies and lead efforts to mitigate identified control deficiencies.
• Manage the process to track, follow-up, and ultimately close all open audit issues, leveraging the Audit Committee, if necessary.
• Actively participate in executive management meetings and/or committees to ensure that Internal Audit is well-informed of key business developments that could have an impact on audit priorities and/or plans.
• Attract, hire, train, develop and retain a team of high-performing audit professionals who possess outstanding knowledge, experience, ethics, and integrity. 
• Ensure that Internal Audit is performing its work in accordance with established professional standards and remains abreast of emerging trends and best practices that can be incorporated into the function.
• Ensure Internal Audit adequately participates in the evaluation of critical business and technology initiatives and pro