Internal Audit Manager

Are you ready to move your career forward and help shape our company’s and customers’ futures?

If you aspire to challenge yourself, work with the best in the industry and join a successful team where you can make a meaningful contribution, then we invite you to join us at Ketjen Corporation, a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. Together, we can create a legacy marked by innovation, excitement, and energy.

Internal Audit Manager (ITGC & SOX Compliance)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead SOX 404 compliance activities, including application control testing and key report testing to evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting.
• Prepare and present audit findings, risk assessments, and recommendations to Executive Management and the Audit Committee.
• Develop risk-based audit plans, define audit scope, create test plans, execute fieldwork, document findings, and present audit reports to senior leadership and the Audit Committee.
• Perform IT General Controls (ITGC) audits designing test grid, covering access management, change management, backup and recovery, segregation of duties, and system development lifecycle controls.
• Collect and evaluate audit evidence through walkthroughs, inspection of logs, restoration testing, configuration reviews, and risk-based sampling techniques.
• Drive remediation of control gaps and provide practical risk mitigation recommendations to IT and business stakeholders.
• Partner with management to strengthen internal controls, governance, compliance, and operational effectiveness.
• Interface with IT, business functions, external auditors, and audit leadership to ensure audit findings are understood, tracked, and resolved.
• Assess automated controls, application controls, interfaces, and key reports supporting financial reporting processes.
• Monitor remediation efforts and validate corrective actions for identified deficiencies.

1. User Access Management

• Review and monitor user access to applications and systems.
• Ensure proper user provisioning and deprovisioning processes.
• Conduct periodic access reviews and certifications.
• Verify segregation of duties (SoD) compliance.
• Monitor privileged and emergency access on a frequent basis.

2. Change Management Controls

• Ensure all system changes follow approved change management procedures.
• Review change requests, approvals, testing evidence, and migration documentation.
• Support audit reviews of system changes.

3. IT Operations Controls

• Monitor batch jobs, system interfaces, and scheduled processes.
• Review backup and recovery procedures.
• Validate disaster recovery and business continuity controls.

4. Compliance and Audit Support

• Coordinate SOX ITGC testing activities.
• Gather and provide evidence to auditors.
• Support internal and external audit requests.
• Track remediation of audit findings.
• Prepare control documentation and compliance reports.

5. Risk Management

• Identify control gaps and process risks.
• Perform risk assessments.

6. Documentation and Governance

• Maintain control narratives, process flows, and control matrices.
• Update policies and procedures.
• Ensure controls are documented and executed consistently.

7. Security Controls Monitoring

• Review privileged access activities.
• Support cybersecurity compliance requirements.
• Ensure adherence to corporate security policies.

8. SAP-Specific ITGC Responsibilities (if supporting SAP)

• SAP user access reviews.
• SAP role design and SoD analysis.
• Firefighter/Emergency Access Management reviews.
• Transport management reviews.
• SAP Basis and security control monitoring.
• Audit support for SAP systems.
• Review Business Process Controls
• Track ownership on exceptions
• Review exceptions on a periodic basis

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum 7+ years of experience in Internal Audit, External Audit, SOX Compliance, IT Audit, Risk Management, or a combination thereof.
• Minimum 3+ years of leadership, supervisory, or people management experience.
• Strong experience with SOX 404 compliance and IT General Controls testing.
• Hands-on experience auditing ADP, SAP S/4HANA, SAP TM, Workday, and SAP Business Objects, SAP security and role-based access controls (RBAC) environments.
• Experience evaluating application controls, automated controls, key reports, and system interfaces.
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Risk and Compliance Reporting
• Experience working with internal and external auditors in a public company SOX compliance environment.
• Public accounting experience preferred, with Big Four experience strongly preferred.
• Certifications such as CIA, CPA, CISA, CISSP, or CFE are preferred.

Preferred Skills

• Strong understanding of COSO, SOX 404, IIA Standards, and risk-based auditing methodologies.
• Excellent executive presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to translate technical IT risks into business-focused recommendations.
• Strong project management, stakeholder management, and problem-solving capabilities.

Soft Skills

• Audit coordination
• Attention to detail
• Problem-solving
• Strong analytical skills
• Documentation and reporting
• Stakeholder management

Benefits of Joining Ketjen

• Competitive compensation

• Comprehensive benefits package

• A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.

Apply today and help Ketjen unleash the POTENTIAL of advanced chemistry for industries that power the world.