Primary Purpose:

• Assumes primary responsibility for managing several concurrent Internal Audit assignments to ensure their timely completion in accordance with the standards as set forth in the Internal Audit Manual.

- Provides significant input into the annual audit planning process by performing risk assessment and other analysis for their assigned audit universe. - Facilitates training and development of audit associates and performs regional, audit director’s duties when required.

• Responsible to investigate or assign together with the IA Director resources to the allegations received.

Main Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Regional Audit Director or Vice President Internal Audit in performing risk assessment of the audit universe and completing the annual audit plan and budget

- Ensuring that audits are commenced and completed as planned - Motivating, encouraging, and supporting audit teams to accomplish individual and departmental audit goals and objectives and providing appropriate feedback, support, and guidance to audit associates

• Developing and maintaining good relationships with local and executive company leadership, external audit management, and Internal Audit associates to ensure audit resources are focused on areas of greatest risk to the company
• Administering the annual audit coordination efforts between the internal and external auditors for those audits assigned to the Regional Audit Manager
• Working closely with the internal IT audit management team to facilitate an integrated audit approach and plan
• Reviewing and approving individual audit planning and analytical data including risk assessment, audit scope, testing methodology, audit program, and time budget
• Approving and distributing the audit announcement letter to audit customers
• Monitoring progress of assigned audits and managing performance of assigned subordinates to ensure completion of audits in a timely manner
• Making or approving audit scope adjustments, when required, and advising the Regional Audit Director of the adjustments
• Informing the Regional Audit Director or Vice President Internal Audit immediately when irregularities have been reported to him/her or are suspected
• Reviewing the electronic working papers as they are completed on each assigned audit to ensure compliance with the departmental policies and internal audit quality standards
• Reviewing, critiquing and editing the draft audit report to ensure complete and accurate reporting of audit information and conclusions, resolving any differences of opinion with the audit customer and incorporating the audit customer’s responses into the final audit report. Approving and ensuring the audit report draft is submitted to the Regional Audit Director in a timely manner
• Spending the appropriate amount of time at each audit location to manage, guide and train subordinates, review work papers and conclusions, and meet with local management to develop rapport
• Ensuring that the Team Mate work papers files are properly signed-off, have the review notes deleted, and are promptly closed
• Managing the drafting of special area audit programs and/or modifying existing audit programs, where required, to make them suit special audit circumstances and/or improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Maintaining a high level of technical proficiency in auditing and accounting by keeping current with generally accepted accounting principles, internal auditing standards, and evolving audit techniques and practices
• Staying abreast of changes in company policies
• Identifying and assigning the right resources to the allegations received from the communication channels of the company

'- Supporting the Regional Audit Director by:

• Leading, participating and supporting department quality improvement initiatives, which both improve the effectiveness and/or the efficiency of audit processes and enhance customer satisfaction and/or encourage greater employee involvement

- Recruiting and hiring qualified personnel - Preparing annual performance appraisals on all assigned staff members

• Ensuring compliance with Internal Audit administrative policies
• Approving departmental expenses within the authorized limits and annual budget

- Preparing interim performance appraisals on direct report subordinates and review performance appraisals prepared on all other team members - Participating in promotion, salary adjustment, employee corrective action program and termination decisions

• Providing advise in the development of company policies related to internal accounting control, accounting and finance matters, and legal and ethical conduct issues, when appropriate
• Attending internal and/or external training seminars and courses designed to improve job related skills
• Developing the auditing, accounting, and business skills of the staff members by:
• Establishing training/development needs and completing the annual Individual Development Plan for all subordinate audit associates for the

Regional Audit Director’s review and approval

• Conducting on-the-job training as well as in-house training courses
• Assigning responsibilities to subordinate audit associates which provide them with continued learning opportunities
• Communicating training needs to the Regional Audit Director and audit management responsible for training plans and suggesting areas that would be the most productive for formal group and/or individual training
• Monitoring completion of the annual, individual development plan and providing appropriate feedback to audit subordinates

Education and Certifications
Required:
A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with a concentration in business administration, accounting or finance is required.

Desired:
Other business related degrees may be acceptable, but a sound foundation in generally accepted accounting and auditing principles is required.
Professional designation such as CPA (Certified Public Accountant), CIA (Certified Internal Auditor) and CMA (Certified Management Accountant) is desired. A CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) designation is considered a plus.

Experience
Required:
The amount of experience and the type of experience may vary from person to person. It is required that the individual has eight or more years of audit experience with progressive supervisory and management responsibilities.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Required:

• Effective communications skills (oral and written) with all levels of management

- Quick learner - Problem solving and decision making skills

• Highly motivated
• Team leadership and training skills
• Works effectively as a team member
• Ability to exercise good judgment and focus on actions that deliver results
• Ability to recognize and act on deviations from both GAAP and sound internal control principles
• Able to identify and address risks within complex systems
• Inter-personal skills to build and maintain good working relationships with customers and audit associates
• Ability to drive continuous improvement processes that enhance performance
• Project management skills
• Highly developed planning and organizational skills
• Ability to handle multiple, concurrent assignments
• Well developed negotiating skills
• Conflict resolution skills
• Operational leadership

Language:

• English

- writing - advanced - need to prepare the report in English - speaking - advanced - need to be able to participate in regular conversations/meetings
- reading - advanced - need to be able to read and interpret high complexity documents

• Spanish

- writing - intermediate - need to be able to write e-mails to the auditees
- speaking - advanced - need to be able to keep discussions in Spanish with the auditees and conduct meetings during the fieldwork when needed. - reading - advanced - need to be able to read and interpret high complexity documents

• Portuguese

- writing - advanced - need to be able to write e-mails to the auditees
- speaking - advanced - need to be able to keep discussions in Portuguese with the auditees - reading - advanced - need to be able to read and interpret high complexity documents
Advanced knowledge of:

• Business processes and internal controls

- GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) - GAAS (Generally Accepted Auditing Standards)

• The IIA Standards (The Institute of Internal Auditors)
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 with emphasis on Section 404 of the Act.
• Goodyear company policies
• Project management
• Fraud, how to identify red flags and investigate them
• If applicable, country specific accounting standards, major laws and regulations
• Possesses analytical and computer skills including Windows operating system and Microsoft Office application software (i.e., Word, Excel and Power Point).
• Advanced knowledge of all aspects of the internal audit process including:
• Risk assessment
• Developing individual audit programs
• Application of audit testing techniques and methodologies
• Documenting audit work and exceptions
• Development of audit findings
• Communications with audit customers
• Report writing