Woodbridge is a privately-owned company offering innovative material technologies for applications in automotive, commercial, recreational, packaging, healthcare and building products. In addition to manufacturing operations, the company also offers a full array of services including: chemical research and development, product and process engineering, tooling, technical support and accredited laboratory testing. Woodbridge operates more than 60 facilities across 10 countries—employing over 7,500 teammates and serving more than 600 customers worldwide.

Role Purpose:

The main objective of this role is to support Internal Audit’s mission of continuously adding value to the organization and be a trusted advisor to Senior Management and the Board.

The Internal Audit Function at Woodbridge is an independent and objective assurance and consulting activity that is guided by a philosophy of adding value to improve the operations of the company. It assists Woodbridge in accomplishing its objectives by bringing a systematic and disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the organization's risk management, control, and governance processes.

This role reports directly to the Manager of Internal Audit.

Responsibilities: 

• Conduct assigned internal audit engagements including planning, fieldwork, and reporting phases.
• Complete written reports and presentations to plant management regarding value-added audit findings and recommendations.
• Project and time management to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of audit procedures.
• Perform follow-up reviews to assess adequacy of management actions in response to audit observations.
• Provide field leadership (auditor in-charge), including the training and development of junior team members or Guest Auditors through structured approach to audit issue identification, problem definition and resolution.
• Assist Audit Management with documenting, updating, and further developing internal audit programs, testing procedures, and tools.
• Support Internal Audit's data analytics initiatives and development of visualizations.
• Support Internal Audit Manager with Annual Risk Assessment.
• Support the achievement of Internal Audit Department Metrics.
• Develop relationships using effective communications, both written and verbal.
• Arrange travel requirements consistent with Woodbridge policies to perform audits of global operations, including visa applications, passport, airfare, hotel reservations, rental cars, etc.
• Training: obtain at a minimum 40 CPEs per year.

Qualifications:  

• Undergraduate degree - Accounting/Finance/Business/Industrial Engineering.
• MBA or other graduate degree preferred.
• Professional certification preferred (CA, CPA, CIA, CISA, etc.) or equivalent.
• 5 years minimum experience in financial/accounting/business/consulting disciplines, including at least 3 years audit experience (internal/external).
• Experience with NI 52-109 or SOX preferable.
• Experience in the manufacturing industry, preferably automotive.
• Experience with data analytics audit tools and scripting (e.g. ACL, IDEA, etc.).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate technical accounting and controls issues in terms that non-financial audience can understand the significance of the subject matter being discussed.
• Bilingual; fluent English skills (oral & written), plus another language (Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese) is preferred.
• Ability to travel globally up to 60%, typically Monday through Friday; however, international assignments will require weekends out of town.