Senior Internal Auditor

Driscoll's; Watsonville (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Driscoll’s in Watsonville, CA seeks a Senior Internal Auditor to join the global Internal Audit team. You will plan and execute risk-based audits spanning financial, operational, IT, and supply chain functions, partnering with leadership to identify risks and strengthen controls.

Based in Watsonville or Guadalajara, this on-site role emphasizes collaboration, data analytics, and governance improvements. You will deliver assurance, guidance, and action plans to mitigate risks and drive process

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, business, information systems, or equivalent
• Five years (or more) of progressive audit or finance management experience with a Big Four public accounting firm, and/or a global company
• Fluency in English and Spanish, both verbal and written
• Strong understanding of key business risks and internal controls, including the COSO control frameworks
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Proven track record in completing high-quality audit engagements
• Ability to perform audits independently with minimal supervision
• Travel up to 20%, domestic and international

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute risk-based internal audit engagements across financial, operational, compliance, IT, supply chain, and commercial functions
• Partner with stakeholders at all levels to identify risks, evaluate controls, and recommend improvements
• Develop annual risk-based audit plan aligned with strategic initiatives
• Perform integrated audits evaluating design and operating effectiveness of key controls
• Manage audit lifecycle from planning to final report
• Present audit results to DOTA management and facilitate action plans
• Track deficiencies and follow up to ensure timely remediation
• Manage co-source audit providers and special projects like investigations or due diligence

Skills

Fluency in English and Spanish

Strong communication skills

Audit experience

Independent auditing capability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance/economics/business/info systems

Tools

Excel

Oracle ERP

Data analytics tools

Job description

About The Opportunity Additional Locations: Mexico-Guadalajara

Location: US - Watsonville, California, More... Job Family: Finance Time Type: Full time Job Requisition ID: R0009237 Experience Years: 5-10 Years of Experience Employee Type: Regular About The Opportunity: Additional Locations: Mexico-Guadalajara We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Internal Auditor to join Driscoll's global Internal Audit team. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with senior leadership, gain broad exposure to international business operations, and contribute to strengthening the company's governance and control environment. The main purpose of this position is to perform operational, financial, IT, and integrated audits for the Driscoll’s of The Americas (DOTA) business unit. Although this position reports directly to our US-based Director of Internal Audit, the role will either be based in Guadalajara, Mexico, or Watsonville, California.

Internal Audit’s Mission is to provide objective, risk-based assurance and advisory services in a consultative manner, aligned with Driscoll’s Mission and supporting its strategic initiatives through collaboration with business unit leadership. The global audit team performs audit engagements with passion, humility, trustworthiness, and agility. The team is empowered to continuously improve the audit process, embrace innovation, and leverage data analytics to make it more efficient.

PLEASE NOTE: This role requires an on-site presence at our headquarters in Watsonville, California or Guadalajara, Mexico**.

Remote work is not authorized for this position.

The Senior Internal Auditor is responsible for planning and executing risk-based internal audit engagements across financial, operational, compliance, information technology, supply chain, and commercial functions. This individual will partner with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to identify risks, evaluate controls, recommend process improvements, and support the achievement of strategic business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Provide assurance and advisory audit support for Driscoll’s DOTA business unit, primarily covering DOTA’s business operations in Canada, Mexico, Peru, and the U.S.A.


• Serve as a trusted internal control advisor for the DOTA business leadership team.


• Lead, perform, and deliver DOTA internal audit services that provide value by: (a) promoting control consciousness and anti-fraud awareness; (b) assessing risk and control maturity in a consultative and collaborative manner with management; and (c) driving control and process improvements.


• Assist with the development of an annual risk-based audit plan that provides relevant audit services aligned with DOTA’s strategic initiatives.


• Perform integrated audits to evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of key financial controls, operational controls, and IT general controls that support DOTA’s business operations.


• Manage all aspects of the DOTA audit lifecycle, including: audit scheduling, audit planning and scoping, fieldwork execution, issue validation, and issuance of the final audit reports.


• Complete audits in the DOTA audit plan to identify control gaps and control deficiencies.


• Provide pragmatic improvement recommendations that safeguard DOTA’s assets and employees and strengthen its control environment.


• Partner with DOTA's business leaders to develop adequate action plan responses to mitigate and remediate identified risks.


• Prepare and present audit results and reports to the DOTA management team.


• Facilitate improvements by tracking all open significant deficiencies and associated management action plans and performing follow-up audits to ensure issues are successfully remediated by management in a timely manner.


• Periodically manage co-source audit providers to ensure timely execution of assigned audits.


• Perform special projects such as investigations, M&A due diligence, global audits, etc.

Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, business, information systems, or equivalent


• Five years (or more) of progressive audit or finance management experience with a Big Four public accounting firm, and /or a global company


• Fluency in English and Spanish, both verbal and written


• Strong understanding of key business risks and internal controls, including the COSO control frameworks


• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written


• Proven track record in completing high-quality audit engagements


• Ability to perform audits independently with minimal supervision


• Ability to travel up to 20%, both domestic and international

Preferred Qualifications

• A relevant professional certification, such as Certified Public Accountant, Chartered Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor, or equivalent


• Experience with agricultural business and/or global consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies


• Proficiency with Excel and other data analysis and visualization techniques and embrace AI techniques to streamline routine audit procedures


• Familiarity with Oracle’s ERP


• Other language skills, especially Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, or Portuguese

Who You Are

• You embrace Driscoll’s values with strong emotional intelligence, humility, critical thinking, professional skepticism, trustworthiness, passion, and an insurgent attitude driven by agility and a sense of urgency in completing audits.


• You are a self-motivated, proactive, passionate, and results-oriented audit professional