Senior Internal Auditor

**What's in it for you**:
You will give local and Group management independent assurance over the effectiveness of Vodafone’s internal controls. You will do that through:

- being accountable for the execution of the Audit Plan;
- working with stakeholders to manage the timely remediation of all internal audit action issues;
- managing relationships with stakeholders and assist the local audit & risk committee coordination.

**What you’ll do**:
**Identifying & reporting on, and ensuring remediation of, control weaknesses. You will**:

- Use your business knowledge and work with stakeholders to support the Head of Audit, Italy and Southern Europe (HoA) to create and execute the annual audit plan for Vodafone Portugal;
- Perform end-to-end internal audits in line with Vodafone Internal Audit methodology and produce high quality reports with findings that management acknowledges as relevant and is committed to address;
- Review audit reports to ensure they are accurate, fact based, concise, relevant and communicated with impact, leveraging in Data Analytics, promoting management perception of Internal Audit added value;
- Support the HoA in working with management to ensure that control weaknesses identified have been satisfactorily remediated within the agreed timelines.

**Continually improving the control environment through managing and influencing local management. You will**:

- Communicate effectively with process owners during the execution of audits for which you are accountable and ensure that management are promptly informed of identified control weaknesses;
- Support the HoA to prepare the audit & risk commitee papers, brief the Chairman and local management on their contents and conduct the meetings;
- Liaise with the Group Internal Audit function, enterprise risk, legal and regulatory compliance functions and other relevant teams to ensure timely and effective communication of potential risks to Vodafone Portugal control environment.

**Adding value to Vodafone through proficiency in identifying risks and assessing control environments. You will**:

- Have sufficient knowledge of Vodafone’s business to be effective in analysing and identifying potential risks and control weaknesses;
- Provide thought-leadership to Vodafone Portugal on matters directly related to assuring the control environment through auditing;
- Keep your knowledge current and adopt a continuous learning approach to your own personal development;
- Provide insights to the continual improvement of the operational efficiency and effectiveness to the internal audit function of Vodafone.

**Who you are**:

- University degree in Economics/ Management or Engineering;
- +5 years’ relevant professional experience;
- Experience in business process, risk management, internal control, risk and compliance, efficiency analysis;
- Past experience and knowledge of the telecom/ technology industries (mandatory);
- Past experience in either internal audit or external audit (Big4) (is a plus);
- Internal/ external audit academic qualification, or equivalent (e.g. Certified International Auditor (CIA) certification) (is a plus);
- International experience (is a plus);
- Knowledge on Financial accounting (is a plus);
- Project management experience (is a plus);
- Curious, engaged and driven;
- Ability to work under pressure and deliver quality outputs in predefined calendar;
- Strong communication skills, being able to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of seniority and technical expertise;
- Positively manages stakeholder relationships whilst maintaining independence and objectivity (professional scepticism is key);
- Able to leverage on Data Analytics to obtain quality insights/ conclusions;
- Attention to the detail while able to see the big picture and ensure relevance (helicopter view);
- Fluent in English (spoken and written).

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