About the role

The Finance team plays a pivotal role in guiding the company's growth trajectory, through meticulous financial analysis and foresight. We provide insightful recommendations to senior leadership, leveraging data-driven insights to optimize resource allocation and mitigate risks. With a focus on driving efficiency and maximizing shareholder value, the Finance function at DS Smith fosters a culture of accountability and transparency, underpinning the company's long-term financial sustainability and success.

We have a fabulous opportunity for an Internal Audit Manager to join our small and friendly Internal Audit team at DS Smith. This is fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to be part of shaping the role and how the team interact with the wider business.

Confident in nature, the successful candidate will communicate effectively with staff at all levels to quickly understand business processes, identify potential risk areas and help devise practical solutions to issues affecting our company. You would be planning and executing audits, assessing our operational processes, and ensuring compliance with UK and EU regulations, but you would also work on IT and non-financial audits too. Working closely with site teams and the wider business, you will be producing well written and insightful reports, providing strategic advice based on findings.

This role would contribute to the coaching and development of the Internal Audit team, through redefining existing programmes or testing new procedures and providing support during site audits to support growth and career progression. This role supports various sites within Europe, and so given the international nature of the role you will enjoy travelling and working with our internal colleagues and external partners. The team are always looking to improve our ways of working, streamlining the current processes, and improving efficiencies. So having a curious mindset, being able to challenge our current ways of working and having the confidence to back your ideas is actively encouraged here.

So, whether you are currently working as an Internal Audit Manager and looking for a new challenge or an experienced professional from a finance, risk, or compliance background - then we might be looking for you!

About you

• Proven experience of working in a finance, compliance, or internal audit role or similar
• Practical mindset to get beneath a finding to consider and present wider context and implications, to provide value and advice that comes from thorough understanding
• Flexible thinking and ability to adapt to change such as to emerging and changing business needs, or to find better ways of doing things
• Strong communication and high-quality written reporting skills - the Group's core language is English
• The ability to influence and confidently communicate and engage with a variety of stakeholders
• Able to work independently but also comfortable building strong working relationships with colleagues and partners around the business
• Willingness to travel
• European language skills highly advantageous

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Discretionary bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
• Sharesave scheme
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Discounts
• Cycle to work scheme

Location: This is a hybrid role, split between home and the office - which can be either Paddington, London, or Milton Keynes. This role also involves travel across Europe and USA.

About us

We're DS Smith, the FTSE100 company who are redefining packaging for a changing world. We believe a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change. Today, we operate in more than 30 different countries, proudly employing over 30,000 people, and supporting customers across sectors like FMCG, industrial, and e-commerce. We deliver on quality, service, innovation, and added value to deliver market-leading sustainable packaging solutions our customers need. Our industry needs to transform, and we're building the team to drive change across Europe and North America.

To fulfil our purpose of redefining packaging for a changing world, we aim to build a diverse, motivated, and engaged workforce. Our goal is to create a culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued, and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.

Our people come from diverse backgrounds, bring different perspectives, ideas, and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges. We welcome all candidates to apply, even those not meeting all criteria.