Our client is one of the leading agribusiness products producers in Romania and one of the top 5 important players in the agribusiness industry in our country. This is an exciting open place where your talents can truly thrive, but are YOU READY?

The company has 500+ employees and has an integrated business model, which involves processing, storage, bolting, marketing, and distribution of their agricultural inputs to the retail market and to the farmers. The position is part of the Internal Audit department and will report to the General Manager for a period until an Internal Audit Manager is hired. This is an open occasion to evolve into an Audit Manager too in an organizational culture that is focused on efficiency and performance.

Reason for this position (new or existing): This is an existing position, previously and temporarily held by the current Internal Control and Reporting Manager.

Job role:

• To assess the compliance of the company's processes with applicable legal and internal regulations.
• Identify risks that may impact business processes and propose solutions to eliminate risks and streamline processes.
• Reports to: Company Owners

Key Responsibilities:

• Propose the Annual Audit Plan to the Director General.
• Develop internal audit procedures according to standards.
• Risk assessment of all organization processes, prioritization, and the development of the internal audit plan.
• Perform internal audit missions in the operational and financial areas.
• Drawing up the risk matrix for each activity of the company and proposing, together with the managers, measures to eliminate or mitigate them.
• Examining the legality, regularity, and conformity of operations, in order to identify errors, prevent the occurrence of deficiencies, irregularities, and damages, discover unlawful, non-compliant, and unreal operations, and omit the deviations found, and improve future activities.
• Propose revision/modification of working procedures following audits.
• Periodically report on the findings, conclusions, and recommendations resulting from the activities undertaken.
• Reviewing and evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness with which company resources are used.
• Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the organization's risk management system.
• The ongoing development of analysis and control systems.

Skills and competences:

• Ability to deal with different types of people.
• Very good written and verbal communication skills.
• Very good organizational and planning skills.
• Ability to plan own internal audit activity based on accurate and clear assessments of the level of risk associated with each process in the organization, in conjunction with any internal requests within the organization.
• Ability to understand, analyze and process all the information in regards to the processes in the organization and to provide feedback on the state of the internal control system that defines the organization.
• Ability to draw up and present logical diagrams related to the audited processes and provide support for the drafting of work procedures.
• Ability to propose operational workflows to optimize and increase the performance of the processes analyzed.
• Ability to synthesize the analyzed information, the performed tests, and the conclusions of the function they represent in the form of clear reports, with a predetermined frequency, with a logical and useful structure, easy to read and understand, with correct, clear and accurate information without allowing possible interpretations by the users.
• Ability to follow up on the implementation of corrective actions taken by management within the agreed timeframe, through follow-up missions is also captured in the Annual Internal Audit Plan.
• Ability to develop/propose/participate with management in the creation/development of control tools, summarising the rules agreed at the entity level in the form of (but not limited to): Risk Policy, Authority Charter.
• Availability to travel within the country, to the company's workplaces, driving the company car.

Educational requirements:

• Graduate of higher education, completed with a bachelor’s degree (preferably Finance-Accounting);
• An active member of CAFR (Chamber of Financial Auditors of Romania) -is mandatory ;
• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and/or CIA (Certified Internal Auditor) certificate - could be a plus;
• A driving license is desirable as there are some audits assignments in other cities/counties where the company has entities;
• Minimum 4-5 years experience in the field of internal/financial audit, of which min. 3 years in the role of Senior Auditor having coordinated audit assignments and teams;
• Previous experience in performing an internal audit for companies with manufacturing and commercial/distribution areas. Ideally experience and/or in agribusiness companies (grain storage, input distribution) or similar. 
• Foreign languages required English good level (written and spoken)

Future:

• A career in the company/opportunities for advancement and also the possibility of taking over the management of the Internal Audit department within 6 months - 1 year.

Travel requirements:

• Periodic travel to all the company’s working points, factories, bases,  etc