Job Description
Internal Audit Analyst
At IVC Evidensia, we are a leading veterinary services provider in Europe and North America with more than 2,500 clinics and hospitals across 20 countries and around 41,000 employees. We aim to have an extraordinary impact on animal lives, supporting in the region of 25,000 animals every single day across our international network. IVC Evidensia exists to champion the long-term health and welfare of animals and deliver our purpose of Healthy Animals, Happy Owners.
As an Internal Audit Analyst, you will report directly to the Head of Internal Audit and play a key role in shaping the internal audit function at IVC Evidensia. This role provides extensive exposure to diverse risks. You will also collaborate with IVCE’s leaders to assess and mitigate emerging risks in an evolving digital landscape.
With IVC Evidensia’s rapid growth and increasing focus on risk, this role offers career progression opportunities. As the internal audit function expands, successful candidates will have the potential to grow into leadership roles within governance or within the wider business, making this an ideal opportunity for ambitious professionals in a dynamic, international environment.
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities:
Lead or support on audits across a variety of areas and conduct other ad hoc reviews to ensure the business is effectively and efficiently managing its key risks and controls
Engage with management at all levels when conducting the audits, sharing/communicating audit results and recommended actions; all while developing great working relationships with people across the group, increasing your commercial knowledge
Partner with other members of the risk, controls and audit teams and the business, contributing your experiences, insights and learnings, while obtaining a better understanding of the companies, cultures and ways of working across the group
Continue to develop your people skills and specialist skills, Internal Audit is about communication, influencing and negotiation
Be a trusted partner by identifying, leading or working on projects as part of the overall audit improvement plan
Use data analytics to help create insight and drive action across the business, including automation where possible in the audit process
Support investigations that may arise eg Fraud or Whistleblowing
Experience/Qualifications:
Essential:
Professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA or other relevant qualification
Broad experience, including industry standard control frameworks and benchmarks. Experience of designing and performing assurance in a complex multi-national environment
Proactive, can-do attitude
Curious, with a desire to learn
Excellent oral and written communication skills (both verbal and written)
Outstanding relationship management capability, working confidently with management at all levels to build trust and credibility and ability to influence to drive change
Organised and able to prioritise and meet deadlines
Commercially aware, with a desire to work with the business to identify pragmatic solutions to enhance how we manage technology risk
Thrives in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
Positive and open personality, with drive and self-motivation and a continuous improvement focus
Fluent in English
Desirable:
Experience of risk, controls and assurance software
Enthusiastic, confident and a team player
Detail-oriented with the ability to see and understand the strategic direction and bigger picture and generate ideas
Good problem solving, analytical and project management experience and proven track record of managing complex projects / initiatives including planning, organising, managing projects and delivering within agreed timelines
Fluent in a second European language
At IVC Evidensia, we are a leading veterinary services provider in Europe and North America with more than 2,500 clinics and hospitals across 20 countries and around 41,000 employees. We aim to have an extraordinary impact on animal lives, supporting in the region of 25,000 animals every single day across our international network. IVC Evidensia exists to champion the long-term health and welfare of animals and deliver our purpose of Healthy Animals, Happy Owners.
As an Internal Audit Analyst, you will report directly to the Head of Internal Audit and play a key role in shaping the internal audit function at IVC Evidensia. This role provides extensive exposure to diverse risks. You will also collaborate with IVCE’s leaders to assess and mitigate emerging risks in an evolving digital landscape.
With IVC Evidensia’s rapid growth and increasing focus on risk, this role offers career progression opportunities. As the internal audit function expands, successful candidates will have the potential to grow into leadership roles within governance or within the wider business, making this an ideal opportunity for ambitious professionals in a dynamic, international environment.
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities:
Lead or support on audits across a variety of areas and conduct other ad hoc reviews to ensure the business is effectively and efficiently managing its key risks and controls
Engage with management at all levels when conducting the audits, sharing/communicating audit results and recommended actions; all while developing great working relationships with people across the group, increasing your commercial knowledge
Partner with other members of the risk, controls and audit teams and the business, contributing your experiences, insights and learnings, while obtaining a better understanding of the companies, cultures and ways of working across the group
Continue to develop your people skills and specialist skills, Internal Audit is about communication, influencing and negotiation
Be a trusted partner by identifying, leading or working on projects as part of the overall audit improvement plan
Use data analytics to help create insight and drive action across the business, including automation where possible in the audit process
Support investigations that may arise eg Fraud or Whistleblowing
Experience/Qualifications:
Essential:
Professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA or other relevant qualification
Broad experience, including industry standard control frameworks and benchmarks. Experience of designing and performing assurance in a complex multi-national environment
Proactive, can-do attitude
Curious, with a desire to learn
Excellent oral and written communication skills (both verbal and written)
Outstanding relationship management capability, working confidently with management at all levels to build trust and credibility and ability to influence to drive change
Organised and able to prioritise and meet deadlines
Commercially aware, with a desire to work with the business to identify pragmatic solutions to enhance how we manage technology risk
Thrives in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
Positive and open personality, with drive and self-motivation and a continuous improvement focus
Fluent in English
Desirable:
Experience of risk, controls and assurance software
Enthusiastic, confident and a team player
Detail-oriented with the ability to see and understand the strategic direction and bigger picture and generate ideas
Good problem solving, analytical and project management experience and proven track record of managing complex projects / initiatives including planning, organising, managing projects and delivering within agreed timelines
Fluent in a second European language
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