Internal Auditor
12 month Fixed Term Contract
Citywest Office
The Role
Working as part of a small, experienced team, you will gain significant exposure across our expanding global business and be part of shaping an evolving Risk Culture in the organisation as we go through a significant period of acquisitional growth.
You should be passionate about conveying the importance of good governance across a dynamic range of organisational stakeholders, assessing a broad range of risks and ensuring that effective controls are in place to manage them. You enjoy watching your work make long-term positive impacts on the organisation.
This position offers a hybrid work life mix. Audit fieldwork and team collaboration events will involve regular travel to our Corporate Headquarters in Dublin and to our other sites, with a travel requirement that can be adjusted to suit personal context but could be c20% - this can be flexed to suit the individual.
Responsibilities
- Independently plan, schedule, execute and close out audits to a high professional standard across all risk areas facing the organization; strategic, financial and operational.
- Challenge current practice, champion best practice and be a catalyst for improvement within the organisation by providing risk-based and objective assurance, advice, insight and foresight as the key output from engagements.
- Negotiate effective and practical audit recommendations with internal business partners and follow up to ensure their effective and timely resolution.
- Focused communication with stakeholders via detailed professional reports and presentations delivered to tight deadlines which are received as supportive and value add.
- Support best practice risk management and proactively engage with internal stakeholders to improve risk management practices.
- Building strong collaborative relationships with management, external auditors and the other compliance functions.
- Work closely with the Head of Internal Audit in the early identification of emerging control issues and aid in reporting them to management and business stakeholders.
- Display the highest levels of integrity, objectivity, competency, confidentiality and due professional care.
- Ad-hoc advisory or investigative projects as required.
Qualification and Experience
- Professionally qualified accountant (or other controls focused individual with equivalent professional qualifications) with minimum 3+ years in internal audit, external audit or compliance function within a similarly regulated/controls focused environment as Uniphar.
- Required experience in successfully communicating and negotiating engagement findings with a wide range of stakeholders in conjunction with comprehensive report writing.
- Desirable to have demonstrable knowledge and experience of performing audit work within Pharmaceutical and MedTech sectors.
- Desirable to have knowledge of applicable regulatory requirements including data protection and information security requirements.
- Able to communicate and persuade with the ability to challenge established practices and policies and to win others to the need for change.
Uniphar Background
Uniphar Group is a rapidly expanding diversified healthcare services business with a global footprint and a proud heritage in Ireland. Since Uniphar became a publicly listed company in 2019, the Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions, which continue to strengthen Uniphar’s international reach. With a workforce of more than 3,000 spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and medtech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines and treatments around the world.
Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Uniphar Supply Chain & Retail, Uniphar Medtech and Uniphar Pharma
People & Culture
At the core of Uniphar Group are its people and our employees are the driving force of the business. Uniphar is passionate about hiring and developing high-potential individuals and giving them fast track, long-term careers.
Uniphar Group is a fast-moving business in an industry that is going through change – this means our people must be adaptable, quick thinking and focused on results.
Please note that Uniphar is an equal-opportunity employer; we do not discriminate and welcome all responses.
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