Director of Internal Audit (Westchester)

Position will be Hybrid or possibly Remote

Salary & Bonus will be commensurate with experience

Director of internal Audit – Fortune 500 Consumer Products Company  – Westchester

This high-visibility position leads the planning and execution of risk-based audits and the communication of audit results to senior management. The Director is the primary contact with management throughout the audit engagement. The Director will also work closely with the Sr. Director and other Directors to assess process and strategic risks across all North American-based businesses and Corporate Functions and verify that these risks are addressed in the audit plan.

The Director will have four direct reports, but because of the matrix organization structure will manage up to 16 individuals throughout the year.

Essential Functions/Key Responsibilities:

• Meet with cross-functional business leadership team (e.g., Sales, Operations, Finance, Treasury, Global Procurement and/or HR) during engagement planning to gain understanding of business processes, risks and challenges of the function to be audited.

• Present proposed audit scope and approach to SVP Corporate Audit.

• Facilitate workshops with business to understand process flows for in-scope processes, identifying key financial, IT, operational and compliance risks and assess the adequacy of controls in place to mitigate risk.

• Identify the key controls to test and monitoring activities to assess during the audit. Review the results of testwork, providing timely coaching to audit team members.

• Conduct weekly status update meetings with management. For any opportunities identified, communicate the issue, root cause and financial statements or profitability impact. Partner with management to develop cost-effective remediation plans.

• Identify best practices during audit engagements and share them across business units and locations.

• Support Sr. Directors with the development of Corporate Audit strategic plan and other key department initiatives.

• Coordinate recruiting and onboarding of new hires into the audit group, which serves as a talent pipeline for the PepsiCo finance and controls organizations.

• Manage the travel & expense and consulting forecast for audit engagements, providing explanations for variances to plan.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of accounting/control or finance experience.

• Bachelor’s Degree (Finance or Accounting preferred)

• Previous Big 4 Public Accounting experience and/or CPA strongly preferred.

• Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) preferred.

• Prior consumer products goods (CPG) experienced preferred.

• Ability to influence at all levels of the organization.

• Ability to work in matrix organization; handle competing priorities.

• Strong interpersonal skills and proven. collaboration/teamwork experience.

• Must be willing and able to travel approximately 40% – 65% of the time.

This position is located in Purchase, NY (White Plains, NY).

Contact:

Stan Hamlet Associates Inc

(o) 212-685-4884

(c) 914-953-9028

sh@stanhamlet.com