Senior Internal Auditor

James Hardie Building Products Inc. is the North American leader in fiber cement home siding and exterior design solutions. Hardie® products offer long lasting beauty and endless design possibilities with trusted protection and low maintenance. The company pioneered modern fiber cement building products and continues to invest in innovation to transform the industry. James Hardie is a high-performance organization, with an unwavering commitment to Zero Harm. The company proudly employs a diverse workforce of over 3,000 employees across operations in North America.

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As a Senior Internal Auditor, you will work independently or as part of a team reporting to the Internal Audit Manager or Sr. Manager to plan, execute, and report upon advisory reviews and assurance audits, fraud investigations, special projects, and SOX. The Senior Internal Auditor will play a critical role in ensuring the integrity, effectiveness, and efficiency of the company’s financial and operational processes and internal controls. This position involves identifying risks, conducting audit testing procedures, and recommending improvements to enhance the company’s internal controls and compliance with regulatory requirements.

The Internal Audit function plays a crucial role within the organization to create value in everything we do through innovation and collaboration with our stakeholders. Our mission is to be an independent, objective, trusted partner and developer of talent, dedicated to providing world-class risk assurance and advisory services supporting James Hardie’s objectives. This is achieved through performing independent and objective evaluations of the organization’s risk management processes, effectiveness of internal controls, and compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies, and providing insights and advice to management on best practices and emerging risks. The Internal Audit function reports directly to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, and administratively to the Chief Financial Officer.

What You’ll Do:

• Plan Audits: Assist with the development of risk-based audit plans, including risk assessments, audit scope, objectives, and timelines.
• Conduct Audits: Conduct walkthroughs independently and assist less experienced team members conduct walkthroughs. Apply appropriate sampling techniques and data analytics methods to perform audit testing procedures. Evaluate the relevance, sufficiency, and reliability of potential sources of audit evidence. Prepare high quality audit workpapers to document findings and the results of audit work.
• Evaluate Internal Controls: Assess the effectiveness of internal controls, identify weaknesses, and recommend improvements to mitigate risks. Review and test the control environment to ensure that it effectively ensures the reliability of financial reporting, safeguarding of company assets, compliance with applicable laws, regulations, SOX, and internal policies, and the efficiency and effectiveness of company operations.
• Prepare Reports: Assist more experienced team members to prepare clear, concise, and comprehensive audit reports, including findings, recommendations, and action plans for management. Identify the root causes of issues. Present findings to management in writing and verbally.
• Perform Audit Follow-up: Follow up with management on open issues and ensure timely resolution of identified issues.
• Recommend Improvements: Make recommendations to enhance business processes and identifies opportunities to improve operational efficiencies.
• Support Strategy: Conduct ad-hoc projects to support the implementation of initiatives aimed to improve departmental processes.

The position responsibilities outlined above are in no way to be construed as all encompassing. Other duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may be required and/or assigned as necessary.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.
• Minimum two years of audit or accounting experience required with experience working in an Audit Senior role; Big 4 or public company experience preferred.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), or equivalents, a plus.
• Manufacturing and distribution experience preferred.
• Experience applying knowledge of key internal control and internal audit concepts, such as audit fieldwork, sampling, data analytics, process mapping, audit follow-up, organizational governance, application of internal control frameworks, common business processes, financial concepts, SOX and accounting principles.
• Knowledge of ERP systems (e.g., SAP) and audit-related tools (e.g. ACL, Blackline, Teammate, AuditBoard) a plus.
• Auditing: Describe the key roles and activities involved in establishing the scope of an engagement, the purpose of performing a risk assessment and the steps involved, the purpose of an audit program and key components, and the factors that influence planning for resources for an engagement.
• Analytical: Strong analytical skills. Examine issues and ideas and to identify good and bad reasoning in a variety of fields with differing assumptions, contents, and methods. Think in a way that is clear, reasoned, reflective, informed by evidence, and aimed at deciding what to believe or do.
• Attention to Detail: Review documents to ensure accuracy.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication.
• Problem-solving: Articulate thoughts and opinions in an organized manner, using common sense, logic and reasoning to demonstrate sound problem solving, decision making, and critical judgment. Identify and evaluate relevant information from multiple sources, recognize and challenge assumptions and biases, evaluate the potential impact and consequences of decisions, break problems into component parts.
• Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to changing organizational needs. Ability to work independently, with limited guidance, and to work effectively on multiple projects.
• Time Management: Self-starter with a sense of urgency to get things done and meet tight deadlines. Ensure assigned work is completed timely.
• Coachable: Analyze own strengths and weaknesses to maximize personal contribution to the organization. Willingly share knowledge, skills and expertise. Invest in the success of team and peers.
• Teamwork: Act as a team player by being responsive and supportive of the workflow of others. Maintain a positive attitude and help create a positive work environment.
• Relationship Management: Recognize the value of advocacy and the importance of maintaining stakeholder relationships. Handle difficult situations with diplomacy and tact. Use indirect influence to build consensus and support. Negotiate with management as appropriate in order to ensure key findings and follow-up actions are agreed upon.
• Collaboration: Collaborate by sharing plans, information, and resources. Work with various departments to understand their processes and provide guidance on best practices and compliance requirements. Understand the value of diverse viewpoints and demonstrate cultural sensitivity.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset: Seek and justify opportunities for continuous improvement of the Internal Audit processes. Demonstrate awareness that there is always room for improvement. Identify and communicate opportunities for improvement.
• Technical Proficiency: Proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Travel: Ability to travel both domestically and internationally up to 30%.

What You’ll Receive:

• At James Hardie, we recognize that our success depends on our people. We've worked hard to build a generous and competitive benefits program that demonstrates our commitment to our employees.
• Comprehensive low-cost co-pay Health Insurance; medical, dental, prescription, and vision insurance benefits for every 30 hour full-time employee. Insurance starts on day one!
• 401(k) Retirement plan that will match 100% of employees saved dollars up to the first 6% of your salary
• Paid holidays, paid vacation including Jury Duty and bereavement leave
• Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Parental Leave
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• And more

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The expected compensation range for this position is between $90,000 and $110,000. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience, market conditions, and other job-related factors permitted by law. This position qualifies for benefits which may also include a discretionary bonus.

James Hardie Building Products Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, veteran's status, marital status, pregnancy, disability, or any other basis protected by law.