Philips Senior Manager Internal Audit - Finance 

Kenya, Nairobi County 

730408255

Senior Manager Internal Audit - Finance

Your challenge

Philips Internal Audit (PIA) is looking for a highly energetic and qualified finance professional to contribute to its further transformation into a world class innovative audit function. In this role as Senior Manager Internal Audit - Finance you will be engaged with senior executives and leading complex audits that provide value assurance to the Philips Executive Committee. You will also be expected to contribute to continued improvement in processes, people development and audit methodology to sustain world class standards in PIA – worldwide, with focus on the European market.

You will be part of a true virtual and global team, working in an extreme diverse and international multi-cultural environment.

Your responsibilities

While working in PIA you'll be at the heart of our worldwide company. PIA plays a key role in supporting the Philips management by helping implement decisions, measure our performance, set company-wide standards and drive corporate initiatives:

• You will be responsible for delivering high impact audit reviews addressing Philips risks.
• The complexity of the reviews and impact on the business will increase during your time with PIA. The reviews will be prepared, executed and reported in line with world-class audit standards.
• When leading a review you are the prime responsible establishing and maintaining a professional relationship with senior management and their teams.
• Engaging regularly with key stakeholders including BPOs and leadership in the European market in discussions related to risk, audit results, and audit planning.
• You will participate in risk workshops establishing risk profiles for markets, business groups/units or functions.
• Acting as a trusted Partner to the business you can work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment as well as think through complex challenges and deliver results. Maintains and actively builds a network in the European market.
• Actively provide peer feedback and coaching to your colleagues throughout the audit engagements.
• Share best practice and knowledge with other Philips Internal Audit peers by contributing to a Knowledge Management Community, where you learn from experienced colleagues.

Your colleagues

Within PIA, we seek to develop the next generation of leaders. We deploy a program to develop your knowledge base in order to position you for future leadership roles within the company. Typically, we grow your knowledge and capabilities within audit for 3 to 5 years and then support you in finding that next leadership role.

To succeed in this role, you have the following skills and experience

• You have a minimum of 8 years relevant finance functional working experience in a multinational business environment (in- or outside Philips). Within your domain of expertise, we prefer a candidate with a career in various roles and therefore a broad scope of the domain. Internal audit experience is not required.
• You have an academic qualification. Professional certifications are not essential, but highly recognized.
• You have leadership skills, as you will lead audit teams within your domain of expertise. Therefore you have the ability to lead and manage the reviews we execute.
• Acting towards the business you can work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment as well as think through complex challenges and deliver results.
• You have adequate (written and oral) communication skills in English and know how to engage constructively with senior management and deal with significant exposure environments.
• To be successful in this dynamic challenging environment you are self-confident, accurate, persistent, resilient and display high standards of integrity and able to handle various communication styles.

Our offer

Our Auditors are key change agents within Philips and the leaders of tomorrow. You'll have exposure to our entire organization – on a global, European and cross-segment scale. You will also receive coaching and a structured learning and development program to develop your career further. You will learn the skills to conduct the reviews as part of your initial training and induction.

We welcome you to a challenging, innovative environment with great opportunities for you to explore.