Senior Internal Auditor - French Speaker - London

I have been selected to build the Internal Audit team of an award-winning FTSE listed construction and engineering business, who have previously co-sourced with a Big 4 provider on an exclusive basis. The current mandate we have is to recruit a French & English speaking Senior Internal Auditor.
The role will be based in c. London, reporting to the Director of Assurance and Risk and Senior Internal Audit Manager, who in turn report into the Audit Committee (AC) and interact daily with the Group CFO. The primary part of this role is to identify risks within the business and evaluate the adequacy of controls in place in order to minimise and mitigate those risks, whilst prioritising their importance.
In this hands-on role, you'll be responsible for helping the Director and Senior Manager establish department procedures and ways of working as we build the function from scratch. You will also be responsible for undertaking financial and operational reviews to identify risks and ensure that they are effectively managed.
This would be an ideal and exciting opportunity for a person looking to progress in an internal audit function as this role will give you the chance to help develop the function into a commercial and pragmatic team that provides independent assurance and adds real value to the business. As part of this, you will also be involved in the production of Risk Committee (RC) and Audit Committee (AC) papers and interact with stakeholders of all levels. Travel is expected and will be around the various operations around the UK and internationally, c. 30%.
We are looking for an audit/accountancy professional, who possesses excellent communication skills (in English and French), especially in relationship and stakeholder management. You will likely be a well-educated, Big 4/Top 10 trained audit, advisory or finance professional, ideally with a relevant qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA, CIA, etc.).
This role will put you in a great position for promotion as the next step for you would be Manager, then Senior Manager (in the IA function, or beyond in a business or finance role.
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