Internal Audit Compliance Auditor

Job Description

Job Description

Global Internal Audit & Compliance Manager to lead our client’s global internal audit and compliance function, ensuring full alignment with SOX requirements, regulatory expectations, and internal control best practices. This role serves as a key business partner to the CFO and senior leadership, driving risk-based audit execution, compliance oversight, and the digitization of audit master data across all global operations.

The Global Internal Audit and Compliance Manager comes with strong analytical skills and experience to add significant value to the transformation of our organization including implementing improved audit processes. The company culture is dynamic, entrepreneurial and fast paced created through a string of international acquisitions and global growth.

Key Job Responsibilities:
•Act as key liaison with the company’s outsourced internal audit provider and external audit firms in controls design and execution - co-source experience required
•Evaluate effectiveness of IT access controls, change management, data integrity, and cybersecurity compliance
•Responsible for ensuring timetable for audits
•Design and implement global internal audit and compliance strategy aligned with enterprise risk
•Lead and execute audits focused on SOX compliance, internal controls, IT general controls, and regulatory obligations
•Ensure consistent compliance with internal policies, legal regulations, and control standards across all global sites
•Own the digitization of all manual journal entries and creation of a centralized audit data repository
•Provide clear, actionable reports and recommendations to the CFO and leadership on compliance risks and gaps
•Serve as a global compliance ambassador and advocate by assessing, training, and ensuring execution — partnering with local site leaders to promote a strong control culture

Skills and Qualifications Required:
•Public accounting experience strongly preferred with a deep understanding of SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance, Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR), and ITGC (Information Technology General Controls) frameworks
•Experience auditing and managing compliance across global manufacturing or industrial operations
•Experience managing co-source partners
•Proficiency in ERP systems (QAD, SAP or similar), and audit / data platforms (AuditBoard, ACL, IDEA)
•Strong communication, reporting, and stakeholder engagement skills across global and cross-functional teams
•Professional certifications strongly preferred (e.g., CPA, CIA, CISA).
•Demonstrated leadership in driving a strong compliance culture and navigating regulatory expectations
•Ability to work independently, influence without authority, and travel internationally up to 40%

Education:
•Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related fieldCompliance reporting, Data reporting, Federal Grant, Tutoring, Compliance Audit