What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Internal Auditor position at Freudenberg Group?
The Senior Internal Auditor role puts you at the center of a fast‑moving, global environment where you’ll lead impactful audits, dig into complex financial and operational processes, and drive meaningful improvements that strengthen the business. You’ll uncover insights that influence key decisions, jump into sensitive investigations, and elevate our audit approach through SAP expertise and smart data analytics. Working across teams and regions, you’ll help streamline processes, boost transparency, and champion continuous improvement—making a visible difference across the Americas and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Lead and execute risk‑based audits across domestic and international operations, ensuring transparency, compliance, and process excellence.
- Analyze financial and business processes to assess effectiveness, efficiency, and internal control robustness—with an eye toward continuous improvement.
- Conduct and support special investigations, including fraud‑related reviews and sensitive internal inquiries.
- Present meaningful, actionable audit results to stakeholders, helping shape better decision‑making across the organization.
- Enhance our audit methodologies, especially in the SAP environment, through innovative data analytics and data mining techniques.
- Optimize internal administrative processes, working cross‑functionally to identify and implement improvements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field.
- 3–5 years of audit experience (or 5–7 years in controlling/finance), ideally in an international manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge of IFRS; strong audit fundamentals and experience with SAP or other ERP systems.
- Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and relationship‑building skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office, with preferred experience in data analytics tools (Power BI, SQL, Alteryx, Tableau) and audit systems like AuditBoard
- Must be able to travel up to 40% of time, domestically and internationally
Working at Freudenberg: "We will wow your world!" This is our promise. As a global technology group, we not only make the world cleaner, healthier and more comfortable, but also offer our 52,000 employees a networked and diverse environment where everyone can thrive individually. Be surprised and experience your own wow moments. Together with our partners, customers and the world of science, we develop leading-edge technologies, and excellent products and services for about 40 markets and for thousands of applications: seals, vibration control components, batteries and fuel cells, technical textiles, filters, cleaning technologies and products, specialty chemicals and medical products.
The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.