Internal Audit & Risk Manager

The organisation

Koole is an international privately-owned storage company providing logistics solutions. Handling the entire logistics chain for its customers, the company has major storage facilities sited strategically at six locations in the Netherlands, two in the UK and one in Poland. With a total capacity of over 4,100,000 cubic meters, its facilities allow the handling of a highly diversified base of products, including edible and vegetable oils, base oils, oleochemicals, chemicals, biodiesel, liquid agricultural products, fuel oil, middle distillates, and gasoline.

Koole employs around 600 employees. Koole has customers from over the entire world, but mainly Western Europe, Asia, and North and South America.

The position

For Koole, we are looking for an experienced, enterprising Internal Audit & Risk Manager. Have you gained experience with building, controlling, and optimizing assurance and risk frameworks? And do you know how to maintain and optimize a company’s high level of quality in risk management? Then you must seize this opportunity!

As an Internal Audit & Risk Manager at Koole, you will work in a dynamic working environment with many chances to develop yourself, take responsibility, and show initiative. A fundamental role, responsible for ensuring that the company is in control. Does this catch your interest? Read further below or apply directly.

Tasks & responsibilities

As Internal Audit & Risk Manager at Koole, you will be responsible for ensuring the company’s high level of quality in risk management. In this new role, you will establish and optimize an assurance and risk framework. With this framework, you signal internal deficiencies and report/correct them accordingly. Further, you will advise on and lead audits of the Terminals and functions of the Koole Terminals. The audits will be designed to assist Koole Management in achieving strategic, operational, reporting, and compliance objectives. As our Internal Audit & Risk Manager, you will fulfill a fundamental role within the organization that reports to the Chief Financial Officer and the external audit committee.

Further, in this role, you will:

• Participate in major business initiatives and proactively advises and assists the business on change initiatives.
• Advise on, plan, and lead or conduct functional audits, special reviews, and investigations within time budgets in accordance with generally accepted methodologies, policies, and standards.
• Prepare the assurance plan for the Koole Group, including recommendations for audits/reviews, which will need to be supported by the Audit and Risk Review Committee (the ARRC).
• Keep the risk register and risk matrix up to date and have frequent contact with the business in your assurance role.
• Assess potential findings for significance, draft audit reports including conclusions and recommendations to correct identified deficiencies, and review and advise on appropriate location/function management.
• Monitor the progress of the actions undertaken by management to correct identified deficiencies.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and have a strong understanding of the businesses
• Review and evaluate compliance with the company policies and procedures.
• Have regular contact with Koole Management on risks and assurance.

Candidate profile

For Koole, we are looking for an experienced candidate who will provide the highest level of professional services, while maintaining high ethical standards. You possess strong project management and interpersonal skills, make sound decisions, and exhibit initiatives. These capacities enable you to interface with all levels of internal and external audit and management. You are proactive, enterprising, and analytical.

Further, you bring:

• A MSc. degree in a business-related field accompanied by a CPA or a Dutch RA Qualification. CIA is a plus.
• Several years of internal audit experience at a multinational in a relevant industry.
• A background in a big-4 audit firm is a plus.
• Experience in, or knowledge of, the Energy, Chemicals, or Processing domain is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate and achieve consensus of recommendations to reduce risk or improve operations.
• Familiar with COSO, main anti-bribery, and anti-corruption legislation.
• Knowledge of auditing and risk management principles and theory.
• Willingness to travel to domestic and international sites up to 30% of the time.
• Excellent command of the Dutch and English language, both written and oral.

The offer

Working at Koole means working in a dynamic working environment with many chances to develop yourself, take responsibility, and show initiative. Koole offers an exciting job with a representative base salary, attractive secondary benefits in an international atmosphere that supports the company’s vision, and exhibit Koole’s core values Unity, Innovation, and Excellence.

Interested?

You can apply to this position by using the link below.