Senior Internal Control Specialist (33758)

Eni S.p.A.; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Eni Plenitude France seeks a Senior Internal Control Specialist to strengthen our risk framework in Paris. You will develop and maintain controls across key processes, including SOX, IT access, and operational controls, partnering with business teams to embed a strong control culture.

You will coordinate audits, monitor findings, and train testers; fluency in French and English is required, and knowledge of Salesforce, SAP, or Kraken is a plus.

Qualifications

• Auditing experience (internal or external) with a focus on controls and risk.
• Master's degree or engineering/business school with audit specialization.
• Strong analytical, communication and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the company’s risk assessment framework.
• Implement and monitor SOX controls and coordinate control testers.
• Design, implement and monitor operational controls across processes.
• Monitor audits and report findings to Management.
• Review SoD and system access rights with IT Internal Control.

Skills

Audit experience

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

English fluency

French language

Education

Master's degree in audit/related field

Tools

Salesforce

SAP

Kraken

Job description

Job title: SENIOR INTERNAL CONTROL SPECIALIST
Location: Paris, France
Job reference #: 33758
Contract type: Permanent
Language requirements: Proficient in French and English

At Eni, we are looking for a Senior Internal Control Specialist to join Eni Plenitude France.

About Plenitude

Plenitude is an energy company that integrates the retail business and renewable generation with self-consumption and electric mobility solutions, providing energy and gas to more than 10 million homes and businesses across Europe, which offers a range of great professional opportunities for the whole team. This partnership represents a major European project integrating the renewable energy business with the retail business, which will enable us to progressively increase our offering of services, infrastructure, and green energy for our customers, providing our team with greater visibility and professional growth.

Main responsibilities:

Internal Control

• Develop and maintain the company’s risk assessment framework.
• Conduct an annual Fraud Risk Assessment.
• Understand the company’s key operational and financial processes, identify major risks (including fraud and IT-related risks) with business stakeholders, and define the key controls required to mitigate them.
• Support the promotion and embedding of a strong internal control culture across the organisation.

SOX Controls

• Implement and continuously improve SOX controls in coordination with the Group.
• Coordinate, train, and supervise control testers.

Operational Controls

• Design, implement, and monitor operational controls.
• Conduct functional audits.

Audit Monitoring and Reporting

• Monitor internal and external audits and provide reporting to Management and the Group.

IT Control Coordination and Monitoring

• Review Segregation of Duties (SoD), identify corrective actions, and update functional matrices in collaboration with IT Internal Control.
• Validate requirements for enhancements to technical and functional roles.
• Review system access rights, ensuring approval workflows are aligned with delegation-of-authority rules.

Skills and experience required:

• Graduate of a business school, Master’s degree (Master 2), or engineering school, with a specialisation in audit.
• Relevant experience in audit (internal or external).
• Self-motivated, meticulous, versatile, and well organised, with strong analytical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, proactive, solutions-oriented, and possessing strong common sense.
• Knowledge of the SOX (Sarbanes–Oxley) environment is desirable.
• Knowledge of Salesforce, SAP, and Kraken would be a strong advantage.
• Fluent in English.

About Eni

Eni is a global energy company operating in 61 Countries, with over 30,000 employees. Originally an oil & gas company, it has evolved into an integrated energy company, playing a key role in ensuring energy security and leading the energy transition. Eni's goal is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 through the decarbonization of its processes and of the products it sells to its customers. In line with this goal, Eni invests in the research and development of technologies that can accelerate the transition to increasingly sustainable energy. Renewable energy sources, bio-refining, carbon capture and storage are only some examples of Eni's areas of activity and research. In addition, the company is exploring game-changing technologies such as fusion energy – a technology based on the physical processes that power stars and that could generate safe, virtually limitless energy with zero emissions.

Working at Eni

At Eni we believe in enterprising people, capable of making a difference and making their contribution with passion and innovation, to respond to the global challenges of the energy transition. For us, the skills and attitudes of each individual, continuous training, and diversity and inclusion are fundamental. We promote flexible ways of working with particular attention to well-being, welfare and work life-balance. Eni will evaluate applications considering plurality and diversity as sources of enrichment. If your application is assessed to be among those most in line with the required profile, you will be contacted to continue the selection process. Whatever your ambition, at Eni you can find the tools to make it happen.

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