Assurance Director

Assurance Director

About the Role

Location Romania Bucuresti Bucharest Remote vs. Office Hybrid (Remote / Office) Company Siemens Energy Organization SE CFO Business Unit Assurance Full / Part time Full-time Experience Level Experienced Professional

A Snapshot of Your Day

The ideal candidate will be a leader who possesses strong audit and advisory experience surrounding operations and risk management. This will be a hands-on role to work together with the Chief Audit Officer, Head of Practice, peers, and audit teams. In addition to having a strong audit and advisory background, you must possess excellent communication skills with the ability to interface across all levels within the organization, including co-sourcing third party providers, and operational leaders. A combination of both corporate and public accounting experience is preferred.

This position will report functionally to the Head of Assurance Wind Power and work closely with directors on audit and risk advisory engagements, strategic projects and enterprise-wide initiatives. You are a visionary thinker capable of leading while also mentoring and developing audit teams. You will demonstrate drive, intelligence, maturity, and energy and will be a proven change leader.

Given the emphasis on talent development, the candidate will also have a passion for handling and developing people. You will possess a high degree of business insight to efficiently interact with the operating leaders in the business units.

The candidate needs to be able to handle diverse partners and priorities in parallel, being an ambassador and role model for the highest audit standards and focusing on using data analytics to bring the audits to the next level. In addition, advisory experience is required in risk management and the developing of key risk performance / indicator monitoring systems.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Lead, provide mentorship and support the development of predictive risk assessment in project business using advanced analytics, harnessing historical data combined with statistical modelling, data mining techniques and machine learning.
• Support creation of data analytics to automate tasks, expand audit coverage and increase team efficiency
• Interact with senior leadership across the organization to lead and direct assessment of risks and processes related to Siemens Energy’s global business
• Proactively supports the advancement of audit programs, improve audit efficiency and support Audit Services team growth and development
• Lead, direct and perform the activities for corporate audits, with accountability for the planning, alignment, execution and reporting of audit activities in accordance with the approved annual audit plan
• Implement quality gates and ensure that the audits performed meet International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.
• Meet with cross-functional business leadership teams (, Accounting, Finance, Project Management, Control, Procurement, Sales, Marketing) during audit planning to gain an understanding of business processes, risks and challenges of the function to be audited
• Support the annual risk assessment process to evaluate the likelihood and impact of risks for the organization
• Provide a broad understanding of the energy industry business model and business processes

What You Bring