Internal Audit Manager

Overview of role

Location: North West / North Midlands (preferably)

ABF Grocery Group is a £1.6bn turnover group within Associated British Foods, a FTSE 30 multinational company with over 138,000 employees worldwide. We are comprised of nine business units which operate from over 40 sites, both in the UK and overseas and contain a number of household name brands including Kingsmill, Patak’s, Blue Dragon, Rajah Spices, Jordans and Dorset cereals, Ryvita and Silver Spoon.

We are looking to recruit a new Internal Audit Manager into our team who brings technical capability alongside a strong team ethic.   Highly focussed and proactive, we are looking for you to work with business managers to evaluate and help to improve the business’ risk management, governance and internal control systems.

Ideally based around North West England / North Midlands region, you will be required to visit sites as needed balanced with a degree of working from home.

This is an exceptional role offering a real diverse range of businesses to work with either on site or remotely as the need arises. In return we offer a range of benefits alongside an attractive and competitive salary, bonus and private healthcare.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide independent and objective assurance and appropriate advice to help Grocery Group business units and senior management, to help them manage their key risks and improve the performance of their businesses.
• Evaluate management processes and internal control systems.
• Plan and deliver a range of risk-based internal audits, perform risk assessments, investigations and controls-related assignments that support the operation of robust controls and processes within our businesses.
• Lead the delivery of audits at Grocery Group businesses to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of policies, procedures and controls, provide assurance over how key controls risks are managed by the business and identify opportunities to enhance existing activities with best practice.
• Report your audit findings and agreeing improvement actions with business management.
• Monitoring the implementation of audit actions by businesses.
• Agreeing objective, value-added actions that will improve internal controls and governance processes, technological capabilities and operational efficiency.
• Build relationships with internal audit colleagues and support and participate in Group initiatives and projects as required.
• Managing your own workload working closely with the Director of Internal Audit and colleagues.
• Ad hoc project and risk management support.

The Right Person

• Be a qualified Chartered Accountant, or hold an equivalent finance qualification, with up to three-years post-qualification experience within internal/external audit, and experience of auditing new system implementations is desirable.
• Bring strong verbal and written communication skills with experience in the preparation and delivery of audit reports.
• Be a team player with the ability to influence others and build collaborative relationships.
• Be able to communicate clearly and influence effectively.  
• Be self-motivated and be able to manage and organise yourself effectively to achieve delivery to deadlines either individually or through others.