Group Internal Audit Manager

We are seeking outstanding individuals who can drive impactful change to join Morgan’s internal audit department.

This role will join the department at a key inflection point in its transformation, aiding in the development of close business partnerships and the credible delivery of assurance on a broad range of risk topics, and providing valuable insights for management and the Board.

The ideal candidate does not necessarily need direct experience in internal audit, but will already be operating as an expert in their respective field and have a strong desire to help the business succeed through educating on and improving risk management and mitigation strategies.

This role offers great career development opportunity within internal audit or act as a launchpad into a future leadership role within the Morgan business.

Responsibilities:

· Coordination and stakeholder management: Liaise with site, cluster and regional management on issues such as audit status, follow up on agreed actions status, development of the audit plan and provision of controls advice where appropriate.

· Audit testing design: identify risks, scope and design testing for audits identified in the plan. Testing governance, risk management, and controls across various risk categories.

· Deliver high quality control testing: test controls at global, regional, or site level to identify control weaknesses and potential improvements, documenting evidence-backed findings clearly in written reports.

· Propose solutions: interpret business issues and recommend best practices and innovative solutions to complex issues. Secure agreement on the audit findings, recommendations, and actions with relevant stakeholders.

· Coach and educate: this role is recognised as an expert and will coach and educate the wider business, including providing pragmatic advice on developing controls.

· Foster team collaboration: collaborate with team members to ensure cross-pollination of ideas, sharing of audit insights and continuous improvement in audit processes.

· Follow-up on audit findings: ensure timely follow-up and closure of audit findings, maintaining accountability.

· Ad hoc other areas of responsibility as capacity allows such as aiding in development of departmental methodology, systems oversight and improvement, participating in internal audit partnership development opportunities etc.

The successful candidate will:

· Have highly developed interpersonal skills, be able to build trust quickly, listen to challenges and influence change at all levels of the organisation without line manager authority.

· Have an improvement mindset, be able to raise difficult issues thoughtfully, encouraging an improvement mindset in the best interests of the business and its stakeholders.

· Have strong analytical skills, to identify trends in data or behaviour, assess complex business information and draw conclusions on the effectiveness of controls.

· Be highly curious and be driven to understand the root cause of identified issues.

· Have a strong awareness of risk and the ability to discuss the benefits of strong governance, risk management and control in a simple way, in terms of business benefits.

· Have strong problem solving skills, focused not just on best practises but on pragmatic workable solutions.

· Ability to work on own initiative with limited support and day-to-day supervision.

· Contribute to a collaborative, project-like environment with a diverse skill-set

· Be flexible and adapt their experience on the principles of governance, risk management and controls to work on projects that are not necessarily aligned to previous experience.

· Have excellent written English skills, and be able to write concisely to describe the environment, risks and actions.

· Demonstrate professional courage and have unwavering ethical values, upholding the established ethos and values of the function and wider business.

Qualifications / experience required

· Experience of governance, risk management and controls.

· Significant experience in any of internal or external audit or an established expert in a field such as accounting, operations, supply chain or IT with relevant qualifications. If not already experienced in internal audit the candidate will be willing to learn audit techniques.

· Excellent written English.

· Experience of working in a manufacturing business highly desirable – not essential.

Travel requirement:

Travel as necessary (approximately 25%) to various site locations, to conduct audits and engage with stakeholders.

Morgan Advanced Materials is a business rich in history and innovation. Founded in the UK in 1856, we have grown into a global organisation with 70 sites in 18 countries. Our model to serve our customers where they need us has led to a diversified product range using our unparalleled expertise in ceramic and carbon materials, which we exploit to solve difficult problems for our customers across a diverse range of markets.

We are a purpose driven organisation. Our purpose is to use advanced materials to make the world more sustainable and to improve the quality of life. We deliver on that purpose through the products that we make, and the way that we make them.

We help our customers push the limits of their processes and products to meet the demanding requirements they face, from higher process temperatures to higher product performance to increasing miniaturisation.

Key Figures: Revenue £1,100.7m (2024), ~8,000 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK.  Listed on London Stock Exchange; Member of the FTSE 250 Index.

Morgan Advanced Materials is an EEO/AA/M/W/D/V Employer Ind-1