At Serco, the work we do around the world touches the lives of millions of citizens and makes a positive impact .  Serco-NA has a great opportunity for an Internal Audit VP to join our leadership team in Finance. This position is located at our corporate headquarters in Herndon, VA and reports to the CFO and the North American Board of Directors.  In this role you will Manage all Internal Audits for Serco-NA and lead Internal Audit’s annual planning process, ensuring that the plan is responsive to and aligned with the risk profile of the organization.  Implement new audit software tool for use in Serco-NA and drive a culture of continuous improvement and challenge the way we do things as a function.  Prepare annual internal audit plan using a Risk Based approach in conjunction with the CFO. Serve as a “thought leader” with respect to risk management and internal control best practices.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

Team leadership: Lead the Internal Audit strategy, process and implementation and the North America Internal audit team.  Lead Internal Audit’s annual planning process for Serco-NA. Build and maintain a relationship with our co-source providers. Meet regularly with management to report the status of Internal Audit’s activities, educate/inform of emerging risks and/or exposures, and serve as a “thought leader” with respect to risk management and internal control best practices. Report to North America CFO and Group Head of Internal Audit monthly on internal audit progress and issues. Assist the Legal Department in special investigations as needed

Audit Lifecyle: Oversee the execution of the audit plan ensuring the highest level of service quality and client satisfaction. Assess risk across the organization in conjunction with the North America CFO to best determine how to deploy resources. 

Ensure that Internal Audit is performing its work in accordance with established professional standards and remain abreast of emerging trends and best practices that can be incorporated into the function.

Oversee Internal Audit’s participation in critical business and technology initiatives and projects ensuring that audit’s perspective is effectively voiced, and appropriate controls are designed and implemented on a proactive basis.

To be successful in this role you will have:

•  Bachelor’s degree in accounting or other business-related discipline. MBA/CIA, CIMA/ACA/ACCA desired but not required.
• 10+ years of internal auditing experience (or an equivalent e.g. external audit, process consulting) in Government Contracting space and 15+ years overall Government Contracting experience in relevant areas including Program Operations, Finance, Accounting, Tax, Audit.

 Audit Knowledge:

• Helps the organisation implement the right balance of control and operating efficiency.
• Uses risk awareness to help educate the business on key risks and can help the business articulate their risk-taking posture.
• Previous experience leading an Internal Audit team at a senior level
• Is considered an expert in identifying data analytic use cases and optimizing the department's use of data analytics.

Business knowledge:

• Previous experience leading in the Government Services space over a diverse portfolio of programs
• Partners with experts and business leadership in Operations, Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Legal, HR Risk, HSE, IT, etc., to ensure that the department's understanding of their processes and resulting audit approach is current. Helps educate the business and provide best practice recommendations based on audit's cross-functional perspective. 
• Creates a culture of fraud awareness across the organisation. Supports management to develop an antifraud program.

Core Auditing skills:

• Consistently evaluates and improves overall audit operations. Understands and applies external benchmarks for performance standards. Reviews and updates the audit project options or methodologies available to / conducted by the team.
• Conducts trend analysis to determine the overarching impact of issues across the organisation. Can articulate the relevance and urgency of addressing the root causes of issues to business management.
• Experience implementing and managing KPI’s including audit efficiency.

Stakeholder partnering skills

• Asks difficult and uncomfortable questions constructively; raises and discusses what others may not want to hear while being able to balance off partnering with the business to drive the audit schedule.
• Develops and presents persuasive arguments to drive behavioural change by putting audit's work in the context of what the business - and the individual - must lose or gain.

If you want to join a fast-growing and successful global company with long term government contracts, apply now for immediate consideration.

Serco Inc. (Serco) is the Americas division of Serco Group, plc. In North America, Serco’s 9,000+ employees strive to make an impact every day across 100+ sites in the areas of Defense, Citizen Services, and Transportation. We help our clients deliver vital services more efficiently while increasing the satisfaction of their end customers. Serco serves every branch of the U.S. military, numerous U.S. Federal civilian agencies, the Intelligence Community, the Canadian government, state, provincial and local governments, and commercial clients. While your place may look a little different depending on your role, we know you will find yours here. Wherever you work and whatever you do, we invite you to discover your place in our world. Serco is a place you can count on and where you can make an impact because every contribution matters.

To review Serco benefits please visit: https://www.serco.com/na/careers/benefits-of-choosing-serco. If you require an accommodation with the application process please email: careers@serco-na.com or call the HR Service Desk at 800-628-6458, option 1. Please note, due to EEOC/OFCCP compliance, Serco is unable to accept resumes by email.

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