This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Internal Auditor based in Brazil.
As an Internal Auditor, you will help strengthen organizational accountability, integrity, and effective risk management across an international nonprofit environment.
You will conduct internal audits, evaluate business processes and control systems, and identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness.
Working closely with the Internal Audit Manager and audit stakeholders, you will plan engagements, perform testing, document evidence, and communicate findings.
The role requires strong analytical thinking, sound judgment, discretion, and the ability to build trusted relationships across different cultures and functions.
You will also support recommendations, management action plans, and follow-up activities to help ensure identified risks and control gaps are addressed.
This is a full-time remote opportunity with varied responsibilities, international collaboration, and regional travel as needed.
Accountabilities:
- Build effective relationships with colleagues and stakeholders by demonstrating professionalism, competence, cultural sensitivity, and diplomacy.
- Partner with the Internal Audit Manager to define audit objectives, scope, work plans, and sampling criteria.
- Conduct internal audits by evaluating process risks, control systems, and operational practices against established objectives and criteria.
- Apply critical thinking, business judgment, and effective time management throughout audit engagements.
- Gather, develop, and maintain accurate documentation supporting audit testing, analysis, and conclusions.
- Review audit results with the Internal Audit Manager, develop findings, and contribute to overall assessments of reviewed areas.
- Work collaboratively with audit stakeholders to develop recommendations that strengthen operations and internal controls.
- Provide education and guidance on internal control and risk assessment concepts where appropriate.
- Follow up on recommendations and management action plans to support timely implementation.
- Facilitate audit engagements through precise, clarifying questions that encourage accurate information sharing.
- Maintain audit tools, processes, and supporting documentation.
- Analyze audit information and results to help prevent and detect fraud.
- Perform other duties and assignments as required.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of auditing or professional accounting experience.
- Fluency in both English and Spanish.
- Experience working in a nonprofit environment and/or with international teams is preferred.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent listening and communication skills, with the ability to understand issues, risks, objectives, and stakeholder concerns.
- High degree of integrity, discretion, confidentiality, and sound judgment.
- Ability to work tactfully and collaboratively with people from different cultures and professional backgrounds.
- Servant-leadership mindset, humility, willingness to learn, and ability to build trusted relationships.
- Ability to travel regionally and internationally as needed.
- Commitment to the organization's Christian mission and a personal confession of faith in Jesus Christ.
Benefits:
- Full-time remote position based in Latin America.
- Competitive nonprofit compensation based on experience and education.
- Opportunity to work in an international, mission-focused environment.
- Varied responsibilities with exposure to multiple functions, processes, and operational areas.
- Regional travel opportunities as required.
- Annual all-staff meeting with international or U.S.-based travel depending on the year.
- Collaborative and empowering work environment focused on accountability, integrity, and continuous improvement.
- Opportunity to contribute to initiatives supporting sustainable, Christ-centered education and global poverty alleviation.