Group Internal Auditor

Audit International is excited to partner with a leader in the chocolate industry, dedicated to 
transforming the cocoa and chocolate landscape. As the world’s premier manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, they shape the future of the industry with a commitment 
to sustainability and community reinvestment. With over 12,000 passionate employees across 
40+ countries, they believe in doing well by doing good.

About the Role
Internal Audit’s mission is to enhance and protect their value by providing risk-based, independent and objective assurance, advice and insights. They strive to create value 
and impact with what they do. 
We are assisting them with looking for a Group Internal Auditor who will be working with the 
Group Internal Audit team members as well as cross-functional stakeholders to identify, size 
and evaluate risk drivers across the Group. You will evaluate the 
effectiveness and efficiency of governance, risk management, and internal controls. As a result, 
you will advise the business on areas of risk, agree with the auditee on actions to enhance or 
change processes, controls and systems to minimize risk, improve performance and 
productivity and ensure that our client complies with all relevant regulations, laws and standards. You 
will have the opportunity to influence change in the business but also within Group Internal 
Audit, all whilst building up the skills of tomorrow.
You will be exposed to Cocoa and Chocolate, to manufacturing and supply chain, to sourcing 
and sales but also to many other areas such as technology, IT/IM, Cyber Security and/or Data 
Privacy. There is hardly any other function where you will learn all aspects of their
activities.

Key Responsibilities Include
• Conduct complex and routine audits (assurance and advisory) in all areas of their
activities (operational, global and/or regional processes, IM/IT, financial audits)
• Support the audit planning process
• When audit lead, plan and lead the audit engagement team so that audit objectives are 
met and the audit is concluded on time
• Collect, examine, analyze, and verify information about processes, systems and 
controls by interviewing employees and partners, reviewing system data, manuals, 
policies, reports, as well as by analyzing actual SAP and other system configurations 
and functionalities
• Develop recommendations for changes to processes and systems that will adequately 
manage risks, improve performance and productivity and ensure that they can achieve its 
objectives
• Prepare audit reports that are concise and accurately document the audit and its 
findings
• Follow-up on/monitor the action implementation status of previously performed audits
• Become a subject matter expert within the Group Internal Audit team for allocated 
processes
• Drive forward continuous improvement and projects within Group Internal Audit, 
including process improvements and the use of technology
• Participate in and further develop assurance committee meetings with various 
functions of the company (Integrated Assurance)
• Build up and/or enhance internal network
Your Experience
• University Degree or equivalent qualification
• 5+ years professional experience (preferably in internal or external audit)
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal and communication (both written and verbal) skills
• Business experience in a multinational company (preferably in the food industry and/or 
manufacturing)
• High personal sensitivity (“6th sense”), demonstrating aptitude to adapt to and 
understand other cultures, good listening skills, to be able to change low cooperative 
behaviour into a mutually confident working relationship
• Solid understanding of Internal Control System (ICS), Compliance or Enterprise Risk 
Management (ERM)
• Proficiency in English (oral and written), any additional language is advantageous 
(French/ Spanish)
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Certified 
Information System Auditor (CISA) is a plus
• Project management experience is a plus
• Solid finance knowledge is an asset

Additional information
• Remote working is flexible, with two days per week in office and the rest from home.
• Joining a diverse audit team of 11 people.
• Travel is approximately 40%, within the EMEA region.