Description
3M is seeking a highly skilled Senior Corporate Auditor to lead and execute moderate- to high-risk audits across APAC and global operations.
The Senior Corporate Auditor will play a key role in delivering high-quality audit work, strengthening internal controls, and supporting the execution of Corporate Audit's global vision and strategies.
Responsibilities
- Lead and collaborate with audit teams to conduct financial, operational, and compliance audits in a fast-paced, learning-focused environment.
- Manage audit projects through fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up, ensuring timely completion and adherence to quality standards.
- Monitor audit fieldwork progress, track milestones and deliverables, and proactively identify and escalate project risks or delays.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to support effective audit execution and timely issue resolution.
- Assess the design and effectiveness of internal controls and evaluate compliance with applicable 3M policies and procedures, laws, and regulations.
- Identify audit issues, analyze root causes, and provide practical recommendations to improve processes and controls.
- Prepare clear, concise, and well-structured audit reports that accurately communicate audit objectives, scope, findings, criteria, risk implications, root causes, and agreed management action plans.
- Present audit findings and report results to business and functional leaders in a professional and impactful manner.
- Ensure that management action plans are well-defined, sustainable, and implemented within agreed timelines.
- Produce complete and well-documented work papers supporting audit conclusions.
- Review team members' audit work papers to ensure completeness, accuracy, logical support for audit conclusions, and compliance with Corporate Audit methodology and quality standards.
- Participate in global and regional initiatives to enhance Corporate Audit methodologies and processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited university.
- Minimum of five years of audit experience, preferably in manufacturing and with Big Four experience.
- Strong knowledge of operational processes, internal controls, and auditing practices.
- Demonstrated experience managing audit engagements or projects, including execution, reporting, stakeholder coordination, and timely delivery of audit milestones.
- Strong audit report writing skills, with the ability to clearly articulate findings, risks, root causes, and practical recommendations for senior management audiences.
- Ability to understand and apply the company's systems, policies, and procedures.
- Confident communicator with experience in presenting to senior management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Fluency in Mandarin is required; proficiency in another Asian language, such as Japanese or Korean, is a plus.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% across China, APAC, and global locations.
- Experience with SAP ERP is an advantage.
- Professional qualifications such as CPA or CIA are required.