Senior Principal, Internal Audit Excellence and Accountability

Job DescriptionWe are on the lookout for a Senior Principal, Internal Audit Excellence and Accountability to join the Internal Audit team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences. Reporting directly to the Global Head of Internal Audit | Chief Audit Executive (CAE), you will play a pivotal leadership role in strengthening governance, accountability, and internal control discipline across all business areas. You will be expected to bring presence, confidence, and credibility — ensuring that audit insights translate into measurable improvements, that management actions are delivered on time, and that the function’s strategic influence continues to expand across the enterprise. This role requires a combination of deep internal audit expertise, sound business judgment, and the ability to influence, challenge, and engage effectively with senior executives across a complex global organization.Lead and elevate the internal audit program across finance, operations, technology, and compliance, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, strategic objectives, and regulatory expectations.Represent Internal Audit as a credible and influential partner to senior management, capable of engaging in executive-level dialogue, challenging decisions constructively, and influencing outcomes through evidence-based insights.Ensure timely remediation of audit findings, maintaining robust follow-up and escalation protocols to drive accountability and transparency at all levels of the organization.Enhance communication and stakeholder engagement, ensuring that audit messages are clear, persuasive, and tailored to senior audiences, including the Audit Committee and Board.Promote a culture of integrity, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring that audit recommendations result in sustainable operational and control enhancements.Drive team development and succession planning, strengthening leadership capability and fostering an environment that encourages assertiveness, professional growth, and independent thinking.Uphold the highest standards of audit quality, documentation, and reporting, ensuring consistency, clarity, and alignment with professional standards.Leverage technology and analytics to enhance audit effectiveness, coverage, and efficiency.Collaborate with the CAE and other senior leaders to refine the long-term internal audit strategy, expanding the function’s role as a trusted advisor and strategic enablerQualifications15+ years of progressive experience in internal audit, risk management, assurance, operations or business transformation, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role within a complex, multinational environment.Proven ability to influence and challenge senior executives with confidence, tact, and professionalism.Experience engaging with IT and cybersecurity stakeholders is advantageous.Demonstrated excellence in executive communication, including report writing, presentation delivery, and Audit Committee engagement.Strong strategic and commercial awareness, able to connect audit insights with business priorities and emerging risks.Experience leading and developing high-performing, globally distributed teams, including succession planning and leadership pipeline development.Strong follow-through and accountability orientation, ensuring issues are resolved and commitments honored.High level of integrity, sound professional judgment, and resilience under pressure.Additional InformationEnsuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a weekWe offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of serviceWe will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Gym & Bicycle SubsidyCash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank,  Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension PlanThe power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. Courses.Ready to join our team? If you’re excited to grow, collaborate and be part of the world’s leading delivery platform, we’d love to hear from you. Apply todayWe believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at inclusion@deliveryhero.cominclude it in your application. Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration. 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