Internal Auditor

About the role

Embark on a career journey with Franklin Electric, where your passion meets purpose, and every day is an opportunity to make a difference in global communities by providing access to water, fuel, and electricity. The Internal Auditor position offers an exciting and challenging opportunity for an accounting or finance-focused professional to drive change and develop audit experience through in-depth exposure to a global business. The role focuses on the design and operating effectiveness of the company's internal control framework to manage and mitigate risk. The Internal Audit department is developmental, assisting employees in furthering career goals through training, strategic networking, and advancement opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Perform SOX and operational audits.
• Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or noncompliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.
• Prepare detailed reports on audit findings and communicate them to appropriate staff and management.
• Assist with reviews of quarterly earnings releases, quarterly and annual financial statements, the annual report, and the proxy.
• Travel up to approximately 25% to certain global facilities.

Requirements

• Familiar with auditing concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Able to manage workload for multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.
• Strong communication skills for interacting with accounting, finance, external auditors, and operational employees.
• Maintains confidentiality and uses discretion with business information.
• Writes routine audit reports and correspondence.
• Utilizes common-sense understanding to carry out written, oral, or diagrammed instructions.
• Deals with problems involving several known variables in routine situations.
• Plans the time, method, manner, and performance sequence of own work.
• Makes decisions of both minor and major importance that may affect other employees or clientele.
• Completes moderately repetitive tasks with attention to detail when reviewing audit support.
• Uses noncomplex machines and equipment (e.g., adding machines, calculators, copy/fax machines).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business administration, finance, or a related field (required).
• Zero to three years of relevant experience in accounting, finance, or a related field (required).

Skills

• Advanced: Accounting, database, spreadsheet.
• Intermediate: 10-key, presentation/PowerPoint, programming languages, word processing/typing.
• Basic: Alphanumeric data entry.

Certifications

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) (preferred).
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) (preferred).

Benefits

• Hybrid remote work arrangements.
• Generous paid time off and holidays.
• Paid parental leave and on-site motherhood rooms.
• On-site café and complimentary beverage stations.
• Indoor fitness facility and outdoor walking paths.
• 401(k) with matching and service contributions.
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Fertility and adoption support.
• Undergraduate and graduate tuition reimbursement.
• Professional development assistance and health & wellness programs.
• Development opportunities such as training, certifications, mentorship, leadership programs, and one-on-one coaching.