Lead Internal Auditor

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

This position provides an opportunity for a motivated audit professional to make a strong contribution to Global Payments’ growing Internal Audit team in Europe. As a Fortune 500 payments technology company, Global Payments’ management recognizes the importance of managing and responding to risk and regulatory compliance requirements. Audit Services is an integral and valued component of Global Payments’ risk management environment, and works closely with management to deliver value-added and challenging audit projects in the area of Business Operations, Information Technology, Finance & Accounting, and Regulatory Compliance. Our philosophy is to evaluate complex business processes utilizing a risk-based approach, and to provide the greatest value to the company. The department is consistently recognized for its contributions to organizational improvements due to its diverse, energetic and collaborative approach.

This position provides the opportunity for exposure to senior leadership and organizational divisions. The Audit Services team focuses heavily on risk-based audits that help management identify and reduce organizational risk. These projects vary each year and provide a high degree of challenge and diversity. The team also performs advisory projects to support various new business needs.

**Essential Responsibilities**
- Lead control walkthroughs to understand and document the full business process to adequately assess all risks.
- Lead control testing for risk-based audits and support project team with all aspects of the audit lifecycle, including risk assessment, planning, client coordination, fieldwork, data analysis, workpaper documentation, reporting, and remediation validation, with direction from senior team members.
- Determine audit objectives, identify key risks and controls, develop detailed audit programs, test controls, document results, and prepare audit work papers.
- Willingness to learn and grow technical knowledge through team collaboration. Projects will include a strong focus on financial and operational controls in executing integrated, risk-based audits to evaluate the design and effectiveness of internal controls. The auditor will also focus on the integration of IT and business process risk considerations within the audit process.
- Understand key business process risks, merchant Know Your Customer (KYC), authorization, settlement, vendor management, dispute management, data protection, and AML.
- Evaluate root cause factors for audit testing exceptions and recommend practical solutions that reduce risk and strengthen business processes and controls.
- Build and develop Internal Audit’s brand within the company through meaningful relationship building.
- Enable continuous improvement of the Internal Audit department by identifying and communicating enhancement opportunities to department leadership.
- Support the development of other team members within the Internal Audit department.

**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**
- Audit and/or consulting experience is recommended in the following areas:

- Merchant Acquiring/Payment Processing experience, including underwriting, onboarding, risk management, chargebacks and back office processes.
- Integration of business process controls with supporting technologies. Business process workflow documentation, including identification of key risks and the corresponding business and technology controls.
- Financial reporting and general accounting requirements, including balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow
- Capability to work in a complex and evolving environment while designing flexible and adaptive audit plans
- Strong project management and execution skills, including: prioritizing tasks, balancing workloads, anticipating next steps, and adapting to change.
- Ability to tailor project approaches based on areas of key risks and critically evaluate audit procedures to maximize the value of each audit project.
- Strong communication and presentation skills with an ability to tailor communications to different audiences.
- Pursue work with enthusiasm, energy, drive and team collaboration.
- Establish and build effective relationships.
- Collaborate with management and senior leadership to improve internal controls and processes.
- Establish and build effective relationships with team members and key members of management.
- Proactively commun