Senior Internal Audit Specialist

Nippon Sanso is one of the leading companies in the industrial and medical gases business in Europe. Serving over 150,000 customers and 350,000 patients across 14 countries, we offer a comprehensive range of gas-based solutions tailored to sectors including healthcare, food, electronics, manufacturing, chemicals, electronics, and energy among many others.

We are looking for a Senior Internal Audit Specialist to strengthen our Corporate Internal Audit function across Europe. In this role, you will play a key part in strengthening our finance processes, governance practices, and internal control systems, helping to support the continued growth and success of our European operations.
Based at the European headquarters in Madrid, the Senior Internal Audit Specialist will report to Internal Audit Director, also based in Madrid, and functionally to the NSHD Corporate Internal Audit function and works closely with the European President and senior leadership team.

Key Responsibilities
From our corporate headquarters in Madrid we execute different types of audits within the European region. The Internal Audit function aims to assist senior management in achieving its strategic objectives by assessing the quality of the finance function including adequacy and effectiveness of the internal controls over (1) financial reporting, (2) effectiveness and efficiency of operations, and (3) compliance with laws and regulations.

Main Functions

• Participate in the planning, execution and reporting of the audit fieldwork we perform at our European entities. Overall objective is to help to continue to improve the finance function throughout the region in order to achieve management's strategic objectives.
• Evaluate, quantify, and prioritize gaps between the as-is and future to-be situation.
• Partner with the responsible teams on corrective action activities with the objective of mitigating risks and improving compliance and operational performance.
• Leverage data analytics, automation, and Artificial Intelligence to enhance audit efficiency, risk identification, and insight generation, helping shape the future of the Internal Audit function.. We expect you to contribute to positive changes by encouraging innovative and pragmatic solutions to complex problems.
• Provide timely assistance to external auditors and colleagues, as requested.
• Ensure procedures, policies, legislation and regulations are correctly followed and complied with.
• Promote high levels of ethical awareness. Notify audit management of any findings related to potential ethical issues or conflicts of interest and support the department's independent investigations, as needed.