Senior Internal Auditor - Trading Operations

Vitol and our people 

The Vitol Group is an energy and commodities company. Physical trading, logistics and distribution are at the core of the business, but are complemented by refining, shipping, terminals, exploration and production, power generation and renewables. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today the company has almost 40 offices worldwide – with its largest operations in Geneva, Houston, London and Singapore. The group’s turnover in 2022 was $505 billion. The firm's success is based on a commitment to long-term customer and supplier relationships, a global intelligence gathering capability and the depth, breadth and experience of our professionals to take full advantage of market opportunities. In addition to the trading activities the group has invested in selected up- and downstream assets.

In order to keep pace with the continuous growth of the group, our internal audit team needs further strengthening hence we are recruiting a Senior Internal Auditor.

Based in Geneva, the Senior Internal Auditor will focus on Trading Operations and will have the following main duties and responsibilities:

• Managing end-to-end delivery of operational and compliance audits on trading operations including planning, fieldwork and reporting
• Conduct risk assessments and develop risk-focused audit plans that identify and address potential operational and compliance risk areas arising from trading operations.
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of internal control environment and identify areas for control enhancements
• Preparation of (draft) of audit reports in clear and concise format
• Monitoring of the implementation of audit recommendations and action closure with auditees
• Managing on-time execution with support of junior resources
• Training and mentoring of junior audit staff

• Profound understanding of commodities trading industry (full spectrum: physical, shipping, derivatives) - This is compulsory
• Professional experience in an internal audit function or similar of 5 to 7 years with focus on commodities trading industry
• Proven track records of designing and managing commodities trading audit engagements covering the core risks areas such as Compliance, Market (price, forex, interest) and Credit risk areas
• Degree in economics, finance, accounting or related fields
• Recognized professional qualification in the audit and/or controlling field such as ACCA, CPA or equivalent
• Sound knowledge of audit procedures, techniques and test / sampling methods  
• Ability to gather, analyse and evaluate facts and draws conclusions
• Experience with accounting systems and MS applications such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• High analytical skills
• Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing

• On-hand mentality in flat organization (ie self-execution of tasks including data mining, analytics, controls testing, documentation audit findings etc.)
• Energetic, resourceful, highly motivated and able to think creatively and adapt
• Committed.  Proactive. Takes ‘ownership’ of outcome and comfortable in a pressured environment
• Outgoing personality. Persuasive confident communicator
• Incisive and accurate judgement
• Global outlook. Able to work across organisational and cultural boundaries
• Team player, with an open non-political style and a high level of personal integrity
• Well organised, disciplined, able to set priorities and follow through
• Flexible and willingness to travel (25%)