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

• Keeps current on business/industry changes and their effect on the audit plan/approach and Risk Assessments

• Establish and execute personal development objectives and plans

• Participate in special projects, including acquisition due diligence and integration activities

Targeted Experience & Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, or a related field

• Certified Public Accountant with a Big Four public accounting firm strongly preferred.

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in a Big Four firm, a large global public company, or a combination of both. Demonstrated experience with ICFR

• A deep understanding of control processes, including operation, financial, and compliance audits

• Understanding of third-party assurance reports (SOC1, 2, 3)

• General understanding of multiple technological domains, including Windows, database management, networking.

• Excellent leadership, written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills.

• Ability to maintain a positive attitude and embrace change, thrive in a challenging environment.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and influencing skills to drive internal controls strategy and build effective partnerships across the company

• People management skills, including the ability to mentor, review performance, and develop talent

• Critical thinking skills that demonstrate critical and logical thinking to reach a solution

• Proficiency in MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

• Travel required, domestic and international, approximately 20%

Preferred:

• Experience with SAP, M3, or large ERP Systems

• Experience working with third-party Co-Source partners

Competencies & Behaviors Needed:

• Exceptional communicator at all employee levels, including senior executives

• Effective at building relationships, trust

• Strong collaboration skills across functions and business platforms

• Comfortable working in a global matrix organization

• Purposeful with the ability to make decisions and to follow through on programs and policies.

• Focus on delivering results and continuous improvement

• Influencing and driving performance without authority

Additional Key Attributes:

• Integrity, credibility, and character with demonstrated ethical behaviors

• A collaborator and leader with self-confidence, humility, and consultative skills to positively influence the business

• A tenacious, operationally minded individual with a strong work ethic

Reports to:

Vice President, Internal Audit (Bethesda, Maryland, USA)

Other key relationships:

Corporate functional teams, including, but not limited to, legal, reporting & control, M&A, Business unit finance teams, and the Independent Auditors (Ernst & Young)

Location:

This position will be based out of ESAB's Bethesda Headquarters

Work Location:

Bethesda / Hybrid (3 days in Office)

Pay Range:

$158,039.00-$184,319.00