Audit Manager

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Job Description:

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Corporate Audit Manager, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. You will gain broad knowledge of 3M’s processes, functions, and businesses through audits of subsidiaries, service centers, plants, acquisitions, and critical business processes. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leading a team of 5-6 auditors across different geographies by setting clear goals, providing support in audits, encouraging collaboration, leading by example, fostering continuous improvement, managing performance, and providing a clear vision and direction
• The geography coverage includes South East Asia (Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand ), India, Australia and New Zealand
• Assisting in the execution of annual global audit scoping and planning
• Planning, scoping, executing, and reporting of operational audit engagements within a diverse manufacturing operations environment
• Preparing the risk assessment by assessing control designs, evaluating control deficiencies, identifying mitigating controls and control gaps
• Gathering, analyzing, and interpreting complex data
• Organizing meetings and conducting interviews with auditees and management
• Leading and executing audits, ensuring proper coverage and consideration of auditing principles, risk assessment, and time/budget constraints
• Delivering audit management support assignments under the supervision and guidance of Regional and Global Leaders
• Identifying draft findings and recommendations and discussing draft audit findings and recommendations with auditees and management
• Reviewing the working papers and documentation provided by internal auditors to internal audit quality standards
• Working with process and control owners on timely completion of remediation plans for deficiencies to drive closure
• Writing and reviewing audit reports to provide a clear and concise summary of audit findings, conclusions, and recommendations
• Presenting audit reports to auditees and management to ensure findings, conclusions, and recommendations are clearly communicated

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who have the following basic qualifications:

• Minimum of ten (10) years of professional experience and five (5) years of people management experience in accounting or finance
• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited university/college in accounting or finance.
• Experience working in internal or external audit (Big 4).
• Detail-oriented with strong project management, analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication (verbal and written), collaboration, and presentation skills

Additional qualifications that may help you succeed in this role include:

• Experience managing project work with tight deadlines and working in a fast-paced environment
• Solid analytical, prioritization, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to engage at all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated success in developing and executing project plans
• Comfortable in both individual contributing roles and cross-functional team management roles
• CIA, CPA, CMA, ACCA or equivalent local certification.
• Proficiency using Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience working with SAP, PowerBI

Travel: May include 30% domestic/international travel

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