Title
VICE PRESIDENT INTERNAL AUDIT
Location
Pheonix, AZ
Company
Fortune 100 consumer products company
Package
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Primary Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Establishes auditing policy, programs, and procedures
which enable thorough, timely and factual
review of financial practices throughout the
organization
- Prepare and submit objective analysis, recommendations
and pertinent comments regaring all activities
to management
- Plans the staffing and development needs to ensure
that the highest stanards of performance and
integrity of the internal audit staff are
maintained
- Ensures that adequate safeguards are in place to
protect all company assets and that accounting
and operating systems are adequate, reliable
and properly maintained
- Maintains an internal audit schedule that provides for
periodic examination of all phases of company
operations to determine adherence policies and
protection of assets
- Advises management when current practices are not
consistent with policy or fail to provide
adequate control, recommending corrective
actions as required
- Conducts special studies of specific operations
requiring the development of data, integration
of intangible or unusual factors, summarization
of findings, and presentation of
recommendations and suggestions
- Examines and evaluates other organizatons as requested
by management to determine the feasibility of
acquisition
- Develops and maintains knowledge of the latest
developments concerning auditing techniques and
seeks information applicable to new methods of
accounting and data processing
- Manage the audit of data processing systems, to ensure
the adequacy, reliability and integrity of
automated applications
- Assists independent audit firms wherever possible,
providing available work papers, schedules, and
reports which enable them to modify the scope
of their audit program, resulting in decreasing
work load, and applicable fees
Credentials / Knowledge / Skills Preferred
- 12-15 years of financial management experience
including domestic and international audit
experience at a management level
- CPA required as is in-depth audit experience in a
consumer products company
- Demonstrated maturity, self confidence and
communication skills to effectively present at
the board level
- Well developed personal and business judgement and
unqestioned personal and professional integrity