Senior Internal Auditor

YOU
You want to be an important member of a strong team of other makers who take pride in their work and support each other.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
Simpson Strong-Tie's Internal Audit team provides independent, objective audit and consulting activities designed to add value and improve the Company operations. The team helps management accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluating and improving the effectiveness of risk management, control frameworks, and governance processes.
This position will be based in the Company's Enterprise Services office located in Ho Chin Minh City in Vietnam and will report to the Internal Audit Senior Manager who is based in Pleasanton, California. A critical success factor for this role is the continuous communication with the Internal Audit team in North America.
The primary focus of this position will be to significantly contribute to the execution of management's internal controls program, including all business and accounting activities needed to support Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Under the supervision of the Senior Manager, this individual will participate in the execution of the annual SOX program (including Business and Accounting processes), including scoping, testing and final reporting. This person will mainly interact with members of the Internal Audit team located in Pleasanton and sometimes directly with the business, accounting, and Finance process owners to help them identify and implement adequate internal controls.
Internal Audit / SOX Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
• Participates in the development of the annual SOX plan (e.g. planning, risk assessment, scoping, testing allocation, etc.). (5%)
• Plays a key supporting role to the Senior Manager in the scoping, performance and reporting phases of Internal Audit projects. (10%)
• Conducts discussions with the process owners to update process narratives, RCMs, understand key controls and related risks for new and existing processes. (20%)
• Participate in the scheduling and performance of walkthroughs with the process owners and external auditors. (15%)
• Performs, along with other seniors and staff auditors, the testing of key controls for all business cycles. (20%)
• Concludes on results of testing and provides periodic status updates to the Internal Audit Senior Manager. (15%)
• Participates in and significantly contributes to the SOX remediation testing as needed. (10%)
• Assists with SOX requests from the Company's external auditors. (5%)