Lead Internal Auditor

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Audit Services is an integral and valued component of Global Payments’ risk management environment, and works closely with management to deliver value-added and challenging audit projects in the area of Business Operations, Information Technology, Finance & Accounting, and Regulatory Compliance.

Your Essential Responsibilities:

• Conduct assurance reviews and audits to evaluate the design and effectiveness of controls supporting the company’s business processes and information systems.
• Lead and execute all aspects of the audit process, including planning, risk assessment, controls identification, client coordination, fieldwork, data analysis, work paper documentation and review, reporting, and remediation validation, with direction from senior team members.
• Document thorough understanding of business processes, including the role of technology in supporting the process. Effectively perform testing of automated business process controls and IT general controls.
• Evaluate root cause factors for audit testing exceptions and recommend practical solutions that reduce risk and strengthen business processes and controls.
• Provide first level of detail review of work paper documentation to ensure audit testing work papers are documented in a consistent and high quality manner while executing project tasks in adherence to established timelines.
• Build and develop Internal Audit’s brand within the company through meaningful relationship building.
• Enable continuous improvement of the Internal Audit department by identifying and communicating enhancement opportunities to department leadership.
• Support the development of other team members within the Internal Audit department.

Your Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Audit and/or consulting experience is recommended in the following areas:
• Information technology controls, including access controls, systems development and change management, IT operations, cloud fundamentals, and information and data security.
• Payment Processing/Merchant Acquiring industry, including transaction processing and settlement.
• Financial reporting and general accounting requirements, including balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow
• Ability to lead projects with little instruction on day-to-day work, generally receiving general instructions on new assignments.
• Demonstrate strong project management and execution skills, including: prioritizing tasks, balancing workload, anticipating next steps, adapting to change, and new report and control identification and documentation.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with an ability to tailor communications to different audiences.
• Pursue work with enthusiasm, energy, drive and team collaboration.
• Establish and build effective relationships, collaborate with management and senior leadership to improve internal controls and processes.

Required and Preffered Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Auditing, Accounting, Finance, Business Management, or a related field.
• 5-10 years of relevant audit and/or risk management experience
• Significant experience and expertise with common internal control frameworks and guidance, including Sarbanes-Oxley, SSAE 18 (SOC 1 and SOC 2, both type 1 and type 2 reports)
• Merchant Acquiring / Payment Processing, Card Issuance, and Private-label Consumer Solutions industry experience preferred.
• CIA, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CCAK, CPA, or other relevant certification(s)
• Big Four audit or internal audit experience preferred.
• 10-15% travel requirement
• Strong English language skills

What we prepared for you:

A wide range of corporate benefits:

• 10% annual bonus
• 5 weeks of holiday
• 5 additional days off, meal tickets - fully paid by the employer (129,-CZK/per worked day)
• Benefit Plus package in the amount of CZK 19,000 per year / possibility to use for health, relaxation, education or vacation /
• pension insurance contribution /2,500 CZK monthly/
• home office and flexible working time
• Soulmio – a mental health care programme
• uLékaře – a health care support)

This role provides exposure to a diverse array of Business Operations, Regulatory Compliance, and Financial Accounting audit and advisory projects that require in-depth analysis and understanding of supporting business processes. The candidate should have experience performing a wide array of business audits. Candidates should also possess strong business understanding and be able to correlate risk in terms of impacts on supporting operations. The candidate should possess a desire to work in a very collaborative fashion.