Senior Manager, Internal Audit

Job Description:

There’s never been a better time to join our team. The thousands of ESAB associates located around the world share a common set of goals and values that drive our success and unparalleled innovation in fabrication technology and specialty gas control equipment. At ESAB, we value and respect everyone’s uniqueness and know that our experiences as individuals strengthen our company. And we know that our ability to collaborate, transform, and empower one another is what makes us unstoppable.

With our culture of continuous improvement and innovation and our commitment to living our values, working at ESAB is a career experience like no other. We have more than 9,000 passionate associates in locations across six continents, and we empower our team members to shape the world we imagine every day.

If you have a strong desire to be part of a team that delivers cutting-edge innovations and solutions and positively impacts the community, please check out our career opportunities. We help serve a diverse range of industries such as healthcare, automotive, aerospace, renewable energy, robotics, shipbuilding, and so much more.

Your Opportunity:

The Internal Audit function is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organization’s operations. It helps an organization achieve its objectives by providing a systematic and disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes. ESAB Internal Audit is seeking a Senior Manager to join the team, reporting directly to the Vice President of Internal Audit. This lead auditor will work closely with internal audit staff and third-party service providers responsible for delivering integrated audits, from designing an approach and planning/scoping through proactive discussions with management to report issuance and audit follow-up. The Internal Audit department offers the opportunity to partner with other strategic corporate functional teams, including, but not limited to, legal, reporting and control, mergers and acquisitions, business unit finance teams, as well as external and internal audit stakeholders. The individual we seek is intellectually curious, with a demonstrated background in continuous improvement within the internal audit process and its outcomes. They will possess strong technical acumen, a collaborative approach, and a proven history of effective execution within a complex global environment. This role offers opportunities to work in an international environment, audit across diverse and rapidly evolving technology and digital landscape and develop relationships with senior management. ESAB is a global company with significant revenues and employees outside the United States, so a willingness and excitement to embrace global exposure is necessary for success in the role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish standard procedures and policies for the audit function

• Design and lead audits and projects to evaluate whether risks are adequately managed and to identify best practices and improvements to advance risk management, governance, and control processes

• Play a critical role in ensuring controls are seamlessly integrated during acquisition integration

• Manage supplemental third-party resources as needed to ensure the timely completion of audits

• Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of control processes and procedures for various operational, financial, and compliance processes

• Provide oversight to Audit Staff (internal or co-sourced) in the planning and execution of audits

• Partner with the Sr. Manager of IT audits to execute integrated audits to ensure the business is compliant with standard operating procedures and/or key external reporting requirements

• Partner with external auditors in the evaluation of controls for internal control over financial reporting (ICFR) – Sarbanes-Oxley

• Provide status updates to Internal Audit department leadership and senior management

• Collaborate with other Internal Audit team members to improve audit team capabilities in leveraging technology to audit more effectively

• Prepare high-quality audit deliverables, including a planning memo, drafts of audit issues, audit reports, and presentations

• Assist with the preparation of reporting materials, including Audit and Steering Committee reports, and various status reports

• Develop strong, collaborative working relationships across all levels of the Company; maintain ongoing and constant communications with key stakeholders, including the company’s independent auditors

• Contribute thought leadership and innovative ideas to improve the audit methodology 

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