Group Senior Internal Audit Lead

The opportunity

At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries.

The role

The Group Senior internal audit lead will report directly to the Group SVP-Internal controls and Transformation and is responsible for independently and objectively evaluating the effectiveness of the organization’s governance, risk management, and internal control processes. This role determines and leads the yearly audit plan, provides assurance to leadership management on the adequacy of the controls, and drives continuous improvements in operational efficiency, compliance and risk mitigation across the Group.

The Group Senior internal audit lead combines hands-on audit execution and strategic input into the annual audit plan.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct the annual financial risk assessment of the Group
• Develop and execute risk-based annual internal audit plans in collaboration with the Group SVP- Internal controls and Transformation
• Develop risk management policies and procedures and ensure they are communicated and adhered to throughout the organization.
• Ensure a continuous review and testing of the internal control framework
• Keep abreast of regulatory changes, and best practices in risk management to ensure the company’s risk framework remains current and effective
• Lead the planning, determine appropriate testing methodologies, monitor the testing and reporting phases for operational, financial reporting and financial systems IT audits
• Draft clear, actionable audits reports summarizing findings, root causes and recommendations
• Present the findings to leadership management and process owners at the conclusion of each audit
• Support the Group SVP- Internal controls and Transformation in preparing materials for the Board/Audit committee presentations, and attend these sessions as needed to provide subject-matter expertise.
• Define, in collaboration with management, the remediation plans and monitor the tasks up to their conclusions
• Support external auditor coordination and review

Requirements, skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field (Master is a plus)
• Chartered Accountant (is a must)
• Professional certification is a plus: CPA, CIA or eq