Global Internal Audit & Investigations Specialist

Avolta; Madrid; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Avolta is seeking a Global Internal Audit & Investigations Specialist to support continuous monitoring, analytics, and fraud prevention across its global operations. The role leverages data analytics, AI-enabled tooling, and cross-functional collaboration to strengthen controls within 75 countries and 5,500+ stores and restaurants.

Based in Madrid, the role requires strong technical data skills, operational auditing experience, and the ability to translate analytics into actionable insights for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, information systems, data analytics, computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Supports development and operation of continuous monitoring and auditing routines for selected processes and risks.
• Configures monitoring tests, rules, thresholds, KRIs, and KCIs.
• Prepares recurring monitoring outputs highlighting changes, trends, and data-quality concerns.
• Documents monitoring logic, data sources, ownership, frequency, thresholds, and escalation criteria.
• Contributes ideas to expand monitoring coverage and improve efficiency of routines.
• Performs data extraction, transformation, reconciliation, validation, and analysis.
• Develops analytics scripts, dashboards, and reusable test routines.
• Analyzes full populations to identify anomalies, duplicates, and potential misconduct.
• Reviews exceptions and prepares supporting evidence.
• Performs root-cause and trend analysis for recurring exceptions.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Macros proficiency

Data mining techniques

Data validation & reconciliation

ERP data structures & process mining

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance/business/information systems/data analytics

Tools

ERP systems

Process mining tools

Job description

Avolta is the world’s leading travel experience player. With a traveler-centric philosophy and a geographically diverse network, the travel retail and F&B company addresses the needs of up to 2.3 billion passengers each year, with 5,500 outlets in more than 75 countries across six continents. Guided by their Destination 2027 strategy and boosted by their recent combination with travel F&B giant Autogrill, the company is well positioned to realize their ambition to create a Travel Experience Revolution through their many locations at airports, motorways, cruise lines, seaports and railway stations amongst others.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Global Internal Audit & Investigations Specialist involved in continuous monitoring, auditing and reviews on Avolta’s global operations across 75 countries with more than 5,500 stores and restaurants including Point of Sale and sales-related transactions, bank accounts and reconciliations, inventory and supply chain, supplier and vendor analysis. The position reports to the Global Head Internal Audit Analytics, Digital Investigations and is in close contact with functional, regional and country management to support operational and business analytics, fraud management and prevention, and increasing efficiencies of controls and operations. This position will be key to support Internal Audit Analytics transformation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supports the development, implementation, and ongoing operation of continuous monitoring and continuous auditing routines for selected business processes and risks
• Configures, runs, validates, and maintains approved monitoring tests, exception rules, thresholds, key risk indicators, and key control indicators
• Prepares recurring monitoring outputs and highlights material changes, trends, control exceptions, and data-quality concerns
• Documents monitoring logic, data sources, assumptions, ownership, frequency, thresholds, and escalation criteria
• Contributes ideas for expanding monitoring coverage and improving the efficiency or reliability of existing routines

Audit Data Analytics

• Performs data extraction, transformation, reconciliation, validation, and analysis
• Develops and updates analytics scripts, queries, dashboards, visualizations, and reusable test routines
• Analyzes full populations or defined samples to identify anomalies, unusual patterns, duplicates, outliers, override activity, potential segregation-of-duties conflicts, and indicators of error or misconduct
• Reviews exceptions, assesses their nature and scale, and prepares supporting evidence.
• Performs root-cause and trend analysis to support the interpretation of recurring exceptions and control weaknesses

Reporting and Insights

• Prepares accurate dashboards, exception reports, trend summaries, and management-ready visualizations
• Translates complex analytical results into concise observations and supporting facts, and ensure proper report writing, record keeping and retention of evidence when applicable
• Supports recurring Internal Audit reporting by compiling metrics on monitoring coverage, exceptions, recurring themes, analytics usage, and remediation status.
• Works cross functionally with other departments to maximize data accuracy

Technology Improvement, and AI-enabled analytics support

• Identify opportunities to automate manual audit procedures and propose feasible improvements
• Contributes reusable queries, scripts, guidance, and examples to the Internal Audit analytics
• Provide practical support and knowledge sharing on the use and interpretation of analytics tools and outputs.
• Applies approved generative AI and machine-learning-enabled tools to support research, document review, summarization, classification, anomaly exploration, audit drafting, and development of draft analytical logic.
• Works with internal IT and Data partners to help evaluate that existing software or in-house programs have the necessary built-in controls.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, information systems, data analytics, computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field
• Typically, 4-7 years of relevant experience in business or audit analytics, risk controls, compliance analytics, business intelligence, data analysis, or a related field
• Practical experience working with large and varied datasets and documenting analyses in a controlled, reviewable environment
• Technical skills to effectively manage and analyse data (Advanced Excel, Power BI and macros proficiency, data mining techniques, data validation and reconciliation, ERP data structures and process mining
• Practical experience using approved generative AI or machine-learning-enabled tools in a professional environment, preferably for audit, risk, controls, compliance, finance, or data-analysis activities
• Self-initiative and leadership in solving problems, able to work under pressure and ability to prioritize (deadline and objective focused)
• Excellent attention to detail and acute observation and analytical skills
• Requires English oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills (other languages of advantage)
• Organized and structured
• Discretion and cultural diversity
• Desirable: Experience in Retail/F&B, operational experience, experience in multicultural environments.