Director Internal Audit

Are you ready for a Game-Changing Career Experience?

At EFG (ESL FACEIT Group), we create worlds beyond gameplay where players and fans become a community. We pride ourselves in having a corporate social responsibility which is that "IT'S NOT GG, UNTIL IT'S GG FOR ALL." Our passion, craft, and DNA are aligned to create and shape the world of esports, gaming tournaments, leagues, events, and holistic ecosystems through our millions of players, fans, and heroes, as well as through our people and culture. This is one of many reasons why EFG is a magical workplace, where anything is possible and where you will thrive and experience a game-changing career.

EFG is owned by the Savvy Games Group, a games and esports company formed with a mission to drive the long-term growth and development of esports and the broader games industry, and one of the most active and prolific investors in the games industry. As EFG’s shareholder, Savvy Games Group has a vested interest in ensuring the growth and success of EFG, and a corporate and legal obligation to ensure the proper and compliant functioning of risk management and compliance within EFG.   

We are actively looking for a Director Internal Audit to join our team. This role manages the delivery of Internal Audit (IA) assurance and advisory services within the Savvy Internal Audit function. The primary organisation the role will cover is ESL FACEIT Group, but could also cover the wider Savvy Group. This includes managing annual planning, engagement execution and follow-up activities for a portfolio or engagements.

This role acts as a Business Partner, developing strong relationships with senior management, including Executive Management, and provides insights that add value and make a positive difference. The Director Internal Audit will be required to direct and review the work performed by other internal audit personnel, including resources from outsourced partners.

The Director Internal Audit will report directly to our Chief Internal Audit Officer at Savvy Games Group. The ideal candidate will be based in the CET time zone (+/- 1 hour).

What you’ll do:

Audit and Advisory Delivery 

• Support with the development of a dynamic risk-based IA plan by managing the delivery of risk assessments and annual planning activities for their area of responsibility. This involves proposing engagements for inclusion in overall IA plans, including the scope, timing and required resources.
• Delivers large and/or complex engagements within the IA Department. Responsible for the day-to-day activities for IA engagements across planning, fieldwork and reporting, ensuring delivery of high-quality assurance and advice, on time and to budget.
• Regularly monitors and reports on the progress of management action plans, facilitating the effective and timely implementation of management action plans. This involves guiding action owners (where necessary), challenging revised due dates, escalating overdue actions and managing the verification of closed actions.
• Supports the Chief Internal Audit Officer with the delivery of their role, as delegated.

Quality Assurance and Improvement Program (QAIP)

• Ensures that QAIP feedback received is appropriately addressed, to further enhance engagement quality, as well as the team’s capabilities.
• Advocates Quality across the IA Function.

Leadership and People Management

• As required, supports and coaches’ engagement teams throughout the engagement lifecycle, to facilitate the correct application of the IA methodology, and enhance the teams’ functional and leadership competencies. Although there are not direct reports at present the role may develop requiring a small team.
• Provides honest and timely feedback, development and coaching (to engagement teams and direct reports), and takes prompt action, where necessary, to ensure progressive development and learning opportunities.
• Proactively proposes and implements ideas which contribute towards the strategic direction of IA.
• Lead and support assigned IA strategic initiatives.
• Positively and proactively advocates change relating to all work practices.
• Be a role model for the Savvy’s values and demonstrate the highest ethical standards.

Collaboration

• Shares knowledge across the IA Team, IA Function, as appropriate, to enhance the team’s capabilities and practices.
• Collaborates with colleagues to ensure that resources are shared where necessary, leveraging key strengths from across the IA Function to support efficient and high quality delivery of the overall IA plan.
• Constructively challenges peers to ensure that the IA Function performs at its optimal level.
• Recognizes, and celebrates collaborative behavior across the IA Team and IA Function.

Business Partnering

• Creates, develops and maintains strong relationships with senior management, to keep abreast of their changing business needs.
• Develops relationships across Savvy and externally, to enable effective knowledge sharing within IA and across the Savvy Group.
• Supports the IA Head of Department with Department reporting, as required.

Budget Monitoring

• Supports in effectively managing their IA Department expense budgets, including travel and consultant expenses. Agrees budget variation for overruns in advance of incurring the expense with the Chief Internal Audit Officer

Policies and Procedures

• Undertakes all relevant activities above in line with the Function’s policies and procedures, including the IA methodology and IA Delegation of Authority.
• Promotes compliance with all company policies mandated throughout the organization, supporting policy communication, development, adherence and importance.

What you need:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in any field (Master's degree preferred).
• A recognized professional certification such as CIA, CISA, CPA, ACCA, ACA, CFE or equivalent.

Experience & Skills

• Minimum of eight years of experience in progressive and more complex senior-level roles, preferably with experience leading a range of internal audit activities.
• Experience in all aspects of operations with a good understanding of business practices, IT environments and operations – an all rounder not just one specialty.
• Event or entertainment would be an advantage.
• Experience and knowledge of a broad range of Internal Audit standards, frameworks and the required controls, relevant to their area of responsibility such as the GIAS, COSO, COBIT, International Standards Organization (ISO), etc.
• Strong organizational skills, including leadership, management and relationship management.
• Understanding organizational interdependencies and cultural nuances and ability to leverage them to build relationships that span a broad spectrum of organizational levels.
• A change agent and team builder, who can constructively challenge senior executives in an appropriate fashion.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written and listening). The ideal candidate must be articulate, expressive, engaging, and inspiring and can deliver value-added assessments, sound advice, good news and bad, in a relevant, concise and clear manner tuned to the audience with a high level of credibility with all staff levels of experience and knowledge.
• A broad strategic thinker who understands the bigger picture, business issues and contributes insights that are outside the limited scope of a compliance style audit.
• A quick thinker who can hold their own in the company of high-performance professionals.
• Highly analytical—can quickly assimilate and synthesize complex data and information into a decision-making framework.
• A flexible problem solver who can manage a large and diverse portfolio of audits and issues and rapidly assess situations with multiple outcomes and consequences.
• A confident, proactive self-starter who can work autonomously with strong attention to detail.
• Unquestionable integrity and discretion—committed to core values and ethical business conduct with the confidence to stand up for what is right and necessary.
• Mature, with high professional integrity and honesty—able to separate people from issues.
• Ability to understand, support and articulate complex products and services.
• Strong skills as a negotiator, to facilitate commitment to, and sign-off on issues identified and recommendations made.

Firmly rooted in our values, EFG is an affirmative action employer that celebrates being an equal opportunity workplace. Our unwavering commitment to fair employment extends to all individuals, regardless of their race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, citizenship, marital status, gender identity, or Veteran status.