Internal Audit Manager
Employer · Ketjen Corporation
Budapest
Are you ready to move your career forward and help shape our company's and customers' futures? Ketjen Corporation is a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. We are looking for an Internal Audit Manager (ITGC & SOX Compliance) to lead compliance activities, perform IT audits, and partner with management to strengthen internal controls, governance, and operational effectiveness.
Tasks
- Lead SOX 404 compliance activities, including application control testing and key report testing to evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting.
- Prepare and present audit findings, risk assessments, and recommendations to Executive Management and the Audit Committee.
- Develop risk-based audit plans, define audit scope, create test plans, execute fieldwork, document findings, and present audit reports to senior leadership and the Audit Committee.
- Perform IT General Controls (ITGC) audits designing test grid, covering access management, change management, backup and recovery, segregation of duties, and system development lifecycle controls.
- Collect and evaluate audit evidence through walkthroughs, inspection of logs, restoration testing, configuration reviews, and risk-based sampling techniques.
- Drive remediation of control gaps and provide practical risk mitigation recommendations to IT and business stakeholders.
- Partner with management to strengthen internal controls, governance, compliance, and operational effectiveness.
- Interface with IT, business functions, external auditors, and audit leadership to ensure audit findings are understood, tracked, and resolved.
- Assess automated controls, application controls, interfaces, and key reports supporting financial reporting processes.
- Monitor remediation efforts and validate corrective actions for identified deficiencies.
- Review and monitor user access to applications and systems.
- Ensure proper user provisioning and deprovisioning processes.
- Conduct periodic access reviews and certifications.
- Verify segregation of duties (SoD) compliance.
- Monitor privileged and emergency access on a frequent basis.
- Ensure all system changes follow approved change management procedures.
- Review change requests, approvals, testing evidence, and migration documentation.
- Monitor batch jobs, system interfaces, and scheduled processes.
- Review backup and recovery procedures.
- Validate disaster recovery and business continuity controls.
- Coordinate SOX ITGC testing activities.
- Gather and provide evidence to auditors.
- Support internal and external audit requests.
- Track remediation of audit findings.
- Prepare control documentation and compliance reports.
- Identify control gaps and process risks.
- Perform risk assessments.
- Maintain control narratives, process flows, and control matrices.
- Update policies and procedures.
- Ensure controls are documented and executed consistently.
- Review privileged access activities.
- Support cybersecurity compliance requirements.
- Ensure adherence to corporate security policies.
Conditions & benefits
Competitive compensationComprehensive benefits packageA diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in Internal Audit, External Audit, SOX Compliance, IT Audit, Risk Management, or a combination thereof.
- Minimum 3 years of leadership, supervisory, or people management experience.
- Strong experience with SOX 404 compliance and IT General Controls testing.
- Hands-on experience auditing ADP, SAP S/4HANA, SAP TM, Workday, and SAP Business Objects, SAP security and role-based access controls (RBAC) environments.
- Experience evaluating application controls, automated controls, key reports, and system interfaces.
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Risk and Compliance Reporting
- Experience working with internal and external auditors in a public company SOX compliance environment.
- Public accounting experience preferred, with Big Four experience strongly preferred.
- Certifications such as CIA, CPA, CISA, CISSP, or CFE are preferred.