Manager Interne Kontrollsysteme (IKS) und Assurance (m/w/d)

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Köln; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Redcare Pharmacy seeks an Internal Controls & Assurance Manager to build a best-in-class IC&A function from day one. You will assess controls across finance, technology, compliance and operations, and guide remediation with process owners.

You will work with AuditBoard/Optro to standardise testing and strengthen governance across the organisation. You will lead risk-based assessments, develop risk/control matrices, and drive evidence collection for assurance reporting, partnering with senior

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in internal controls, assurance or SOX/ICFR testing.
• Walkthroughs, control design assessment and evidence testing.
• Experience with COSO and internal-control frameworks.
• Familiarity with GRC platforms and remediation discussions.

Responsibilities

• Execute risk-based control assessments across Finance, IT, Operations and more.
• Perform walkthroughs with process owners to understand controls and evidence.
• Test operating effectiveness and document deficiencies with remediation plans.
• Maintain Risk and Control Matrices and support dashboards/reports.
• Contribute to framework rollout and opportunities to standardise controls.

Skills

Internal controls

Internal audit

SOX/ICFR

Walkthroughs

GRC platforms

Education

CIA

CPA

ACCA

CISA

Tools

AuditBoard

Optro

Job description

• Full-time
• Remote Type: Internal Audit

About Redcare Pharmacy:

As Europe's No.1 e-pharmacy Redcare Pharmacy is powered by passionate teams and cutting-edge innovation. We strive to create a healthy collaborative work environment where every employee feels valued and inspired to contribute to our vision "Until every human has their health". If you're seeking a career that offers purpose and aligns with your values join us and start your #Redcareer today.

Job Description

About the role:

We are looking for an Internal Controls & Assurance Manager to join our newly created Internal Controls & Assurance (IC&A) function.

This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on control-assurance professional who wants to help shape a new function from day one. As the principal hands-on assurance expert in the team, you will assess whether controls across financial, operational, technology, compliance and reporting processes are appropriately designed and operating effectively, and you will help our business teams apply the Internal Control Framework in practice.

Reporting to the Director, Internal Controls & Assurance, you will run walkthroughs, testing, evidence evaluation and deficiency assessments, build Risk and Control Matrices, and work directly with process owners across the company on remediation. You will work with leading GRC software (AuditBoard/Optro) and have plenty of room to standardise and automate the way controls are tested.

About your tasks:

Control Assessments & Testing

• Execute risk-based control assessments across Finance, Technology, HR, Operations, Pharmacy, Compliance and other relevant functions, covering both design and operating effectiveness.
• Perform walkthroughs with process and control owners to understand processes, risks, control objectives, control execution and the evidence retained.
• Evaluate whether controls are appropriately designed to mitigate the identified risks, and clearly document design gaps and recommendations.
• Test operating effectiveness using appropriate populations, samples and evidence, and maintain complete, traceable, high-quality working papers.
• Identify and assess control exceptions and deficiencies, propose severity ratings and elevate significant or disputed matters to the Director.
• Agree remediation actions with first-line owners, monitor due dates and retest to confirm that priority failures have been effectively addressed.

Framework Rollout, Tools & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and maintain Risk and Control Matrices and support risk-to-control mapping with Enterprise Risk Management and business control coordinators.
• Advise business teams on practical control design, ownership, frequency and evidence requirements.
• Keep control, testing, deficiency and remediation data accurate in AuditBoard/Optro and contribute to reliable Management dashboards and the Management Assurance Report.
• Support the framework rollout into new domains, train control owners and coordinators, and find opportunities to standardise or automate controls and evidence collection.

Qualifications

About you:

• Several years of hands-on experience in internal controls, assurance, internal audit, SOX/ICFR or a comparable control-testing environment, either in-house or in audit/advisory.
• Practical experience performing walkthroughs, assessing control design and testing operating effectiveness.
• Strong skills in determining appropriate samples, evaluating evidence and producing clear, review-ready working papers.
• Experience identifying control deficiencies, assessing their significance and discussing findings and remediation with process owners.
• Working knowledge of Risk and Control Matrices and internal-control frameworks such as COSO, SOX or equivalent.
• Experience across several business processes, such as Finance, IT, HR, Operations, Compliance or Supply Chain.
• Confidence to challenge managers and senior process owners constructively.
• Experience with AuditBoard/Optro or another GRC platform, and a professional qualification (or progress toward one) such as CIA, CPA, ACCA or CISA, is a plus.
• Experience in a listed, regulated or international organisation and