Regional Head Internal Audit LATAM

WHO WE ARE 

Avolta is the world’s leading travel experience player. With a traveler-centric philosophy and a geographically diverse network, the travel retail and F&B company addresses the needs of up to 2.3 billion passengers each year, with 5,500 outlets in more than 75 countries across six continents. Guided by their Destination 2027 strategy and boosted by their recent combination with travel F&B giant Autogrill, the company is well positioned to realise their ambition to create a Travel Experience Revolution through their many locations at airports, motorways, cruise lines, seaports and railway stations amongst others. 

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE 

The Regional Internal Audit Head is responsible for managing the regional Internal Audit function, whose primary responsibility is to ensure the adequacy of the Company’s internal control structure with the express purpose of assisting the Company in meeting its business goals and objectives. This is a management position and reports to the Global Director Internal Audit & Investigations. 

The position is based in Miami (FL, US)  

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Responsible for executing all phases of the Internal Audit engagements for the region assigned (and other areas on request), incl. planning, fieldwork and reporting. 

• Ensures that all audits and advisory projects are complete, accurate, timely, reliable, relevant 

• Ensures effective planning for the annual audit plan and audit strategy 

• Accountable for developing a risk-based approach on the annual audit plan 

• Maintains the proficiency of the audit staff by recruiting, training, and motivating its members 

• Communicates audit findings and recommendations to responsible managers 

• Ensures that responsible management takes appropriate action on audit findings and recommendations 

• Ensures effective coordination between internal and external audit efforts as well company controls  

• Establishes and maintains a quality-assurance program to evaluate the operations of the internal audit function 

• Reviews audit techniques continuously to improve their efficiency and effectiveness 

• Evaluates internal controls for design and effectiveness 

• Accountable for all assigned internal audit department plans with due professional standards execution. 

• Assure the compliance with relevant laws and regulations as well as the correctness of internal reporting 

• Ensure adaptation of all company policies and procedures and adhered to, whilst maintaining a high level of compliance with all laws and balancing the needs within the parameters and general guidance from Avolta 

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR  

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting or related area 

• Master’s degree and IIA or similar certification is an advantage 

• Experience in a leading internal audit function, retail and/or F&B industries’ experience, fraud investigation, IT (audits) & Digital, Audit Board or similar system knowledge 

• 7-9 years’ experience with proven leadership experience; knowledge of internal control identification and evaluation 

• Requires experience interacting with senior management and the ability to work without supervision on specific assignments 

• Requires strong knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, & Power Point) 

• Requires excellent English and Spanish; oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills  

• Analytical thinking and attention to detail