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Cargill Vice President, Corporate Audit in Wayzata, Minnesota

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 157 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Vice President, Corporate Audit, will lead the establishment and implementation of corporate audit strategy with a mid to long term impact on business results. In this role, you will direct the department responsible for handling the assessment and communication of risk and audit processes and overseeing and planning corporate audit projects to ensure adherence to policies, procedures and regulatory requirements and recommend corrective actions needed. You will assess and communicate risk within the organization to key stakeholders while developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in a collaborative team culture.

Key Accountabilities

  • Lead the development and implementation of the organization's corporate audit strategy, overseeing financial, operational, and information technology audit areas across all company operating divisions.

  • Lead risk assessment planning and execution, and communication of results and recommendations to senior leadership, the audit committee, and other relevant stakeholders.

  • Lead corporate audit process development and improvement, implementation of corporate audit standards, policies, audit approaches, tools and technology and monitor effectiveness to make refinements as required.

  • Provide strategic leadership to ongoing formal and informal audit activities and review audit findings to ensure effective audit processing.

  • Provide expert knowledge, guidance and leadership to the investigations of alleged financial mismanagement, loss of assets or other irregularities and lead audit related documentation and reports to ensure compliance with company and regulatory standards.

  • Provide independent reviews and evaluations of the company's operations, information systems, controls, major business processes, records, and reporting functions and also offers recommendations to company management, external auditors, and the board of directors.

  • Advise business management to ensure adoption of internal controls in support of achieving the organization's objectives.

  • Provide mid- to long-term (three or more years) strategic leadership, development and talent management for multiple teams of directors and managers. You will develop mid- to long-term plans to optimize the organization, function or subfunction and the talent required to execute strategies in job area. You will inspire others by articulating the positive impact the organization can make, while creating an environment in which people know where they stand, including when they are performing poorly.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

  • Minimum 10 years of directly related work experience, minimum 7 years of supervisory experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in technology, accounting or finance

  • A graduate degree

  • Relevant professional certifications including but not limited to: Certified Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), or Certified Financial Risk Specialist (CFRS)

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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