Senior Internal Auditor

Ready to lead your own audits across an international, acquisition-driven business, and help build a new internal audit function? Kiwa is the trusted partner ensuring quality, safety and sustainability across industries worldwide. Their comprehensive Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) services empower businesses to achieve compliance, enhance performance, and build trust.

Your Role: Clear Findings, Real Improvement

As Senior Internal Auditor, you assess how well the processes and controls of our operating companies around the world work in practice. You plan and carry out audits independently, from the first risk assessment to the final report, working closely with local management and process owners. You deliver clear, evidence-based findings and practical recommendations, and follow up on the actions management agrees.

You report to the Head of Corporate Risk & Internal Audit and work alongside the Internal Audit Manager, the most senior auditor in our newly formed Internal Audit team of 3 FTE. You lead your own engagements, bring particular depth in operational and business processes, and help shape the way internal audit works at Kiwa.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Audit Execution: Independently plan, execute and document audits of business and finance processes, from walkthroughs and control testing to interviews.
• Business Process Insight: Assess how processes such as order-to-cash, procurement and service delivery work in practice, and identify root causes and improvements.
• Acquisition Reviews: Carry out baseline reviews of newly acquired companies, mapping their control environment as they join Kiwa.
• Investigations: Conduct fraud and special investigations independently, from fact-finding to documented conclusions, and coordinate sensitive matters with the Head of Corporate Risk & Internal Audit.
• Data Analytics: Use data analysis to sharpen audit scope, test full populations and detect outliers and fraud indicators.
• Reporting & Follow-up: Draft clear audit reports, agree realistic action plans with management and monitor their implementation.
• Methodology & Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to Kiwa's audit methodology and templates, and coach guest auditors on business audit practices.

Your Profile

• Education: University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Accounting, Finance or a related field, preferably at Master's level. CIA, RA, RO, CPA or ACCA is a plus.
• Experience: At least 6 years in external and/or internal audit, ideally a combination of both, including independent responsibility for audit engagements from planning to report in an international organization.
• Audit expertise: Solid knowledge of internal control, end-to-end business processes and the IIA standards, with hands-on data analytics. Forensic or IT audit exposure is a plus.
• Ownership: You take an audit from start to finish, with an eye for detail and the bigger picture, and stay objective under pressure. You are analytical, structured and curious, with clear writing skills.
• Working with the business: You build trust quickly with process owners and local management, ask the question that gets to the root cause, and stay constructive when findings are uncomfortable. You enjoy audit work on location, because an afternoon with the operations team often explains more than a week of documents.
• Languages: Fluent in English, both speaking and writing. Dutch or other languages are a plus.
• Location: You are based in the Netherlands and are entitled to work here. You are willing to travel internationally for 20% to 25% of your time.

What We Offer

• Your own engagements from day one, as one of the first members of Kiwa's new Internal Audit team.
• A role that reaches across our operating companies in 35+ countries, with room to grow within Kiwa and within the wider family of companies of SHV, our shareholder.
• A gross monthly salary between €5,900 and €8,050 for a full-time appointment, plus 8% holiday allowance, a performance-based bonus and a lease car or Cash4Car allowance. Where you land within this range depends on your knowledge and experience.
• Hybrid working (when not traveling, typically three days a week at the Rijswijk office and two days remote), 33 paid vacation days and a strong pension scheme.
• The opportunity to work for a purpose-driven company contributing to a safer, more sustainable world.

Kiwa has partnered with Smarter Search for the recruitment of this position. For more information, please contact Tom Coumans at +31 (0)20 737 07 03.