Company Overview
Brookfield is a leading global investment firm that invests on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world with the goal of helping them to create long-term, sustainable wealth. Our origin as owner/operators of high-quality businesses allows us to leverage our unique operational expertise to grow the businesses we own on behalf of our clients. We put our own capital to work alongside our partners’ in nearly every transaction, ensuring strong alignment of interests.
Job Description
Internal Audit (IA) is an independent, objective assurance and consulting function established within Brookfield Asset Management with teams of audit professionals based in Canada, USA, Brazil, UK, India, and Australia. The Department provides internal audit services to Brookfield Asset Management and its publicly listed affiliates.
Working under the direction of the Director, Internal Audit, the Senior Auditor/Manager’s role will be focused on Brookfield’s portfolio of companies in Europe, and focus on one or more platforms such as real estate, renewable energy, infrastructure, private equity, or insurance. The focus of the role will include execution, or oversight and project management, of internal audit and advisory engagements at Brookfield’s European portfolio companies within those platforms. Typical responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
- Delivering audit and advisory engagements, including planning engagements, performing or supervising fieldwork, reviewing workpapers, drafting audit reports, and ensuring compliance with IIA methodology
- Drafting clear and concise workpapers and deliverables that demonstrate a risk-first, critical thinking and analytical mindset
- Writing clear, concise and constructive findings and audit reports to present results across the portfolio, based on facts, severity and potential risk impact
- Executing follow-up procedures to assess the adequacy of implemented recommendations
- Researching key risks and regulations, and developing planning materials, to effectively communicate the objective, scope, approach, and results of engagements to the Director, Internal Audit, and senior management within Brookfield and its portfolio companies (including C-suite)
- Approaching audit and advisory engagements from a commercial mindset, focused on risk and impact to both portfolio companies and Brookfield’s strategic goals
- Assisting the Director in managing the broader portfolio company audit teams, by:
- Coordinating with colleagues, second line functions, and portfolio companies to perform risk assessments of existing and new companies to develop annual audit plans that cover key risks
- Onboarding new portfolio company audit teams to understand Brookfield expectations for consistent reporting and oversight
- Providing oversight to portfolio companies and third-party assurance providers to assist in audit project scoping, managing timelines, reviewing conclusions and remediation plans and reporting to management at Brookfield and portfolio companies
- Keeping regional and global IA teams informed about audit plan progress, remediation of findings and changes to key risks
- Maintaining departmental standards and quality of audit engagements in line with department audit procedures and the IIA Standards across the portfolio
- Building and maintaining strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
- Coordinating with global colleagues on department initiatives and projects
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