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15000 Valmont Plaza Omaha Nebraska 68154

_Why Valmont_

We’re Here to Move the World Forward.

Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

Join a _Fortune_ 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. _We are the modern workforce_ . Are you ready to move the world forward? Apply now.

A Brief Summary of This Position:

Valmont’s Internal Audit team is a diverse group looking for strategic thinkers, motivated self-starters, and analytical problem-solvers offering career path options within Internal Audit and Valmont’s business units. This position provides the opportunity to work with individuals and cultures across the globe with limited travel to international locations.

Under the direction of the Vice President Internal Audit, this position is responsible for managing and coordinating the execution of the annual Global Integrated Audit Plan. The Senior Manager, Audit will assist in leading the planning, fieldwork and reporting of various audit entities and providing recommendations for the improvement of internal, operational, and management control systems.

The nature of this position requires a disciplined individual that objectively evaluates accounting processes, transaction and staffing. This individual displays a high standard for expected performance. The person professionally engages with both local accounting teams and corporate, highlighting gaps, weaknesses and opportunities related to accounting entries, systems, controls and financial statements. The focus is ensuring compliance to controls and policies, as well as GAAP.

Essential Functions:

+ The Senior Manager, Audit is responsible for developing and leading staff in the completion of the audit plan and special projects

+ Assist development of enhanced sampling and substantive testing methodologies to improve audit accuracy and reliability

+ Assist with development and use of data analytics, audit tools, and technology to enhance financial audit effectiveness and insights

+ This role requires up to 15% travel to include domestic and international

+ Evaluates the results of annual and quarterly risk assessments across the enterprise to highlight changes in key business indicators for adjusting the annual plan of coverage

+ Assigns and schedules priorities to achieve maximum utilization of staffing and budgeted resources, develop subordinates, and promote staff professional development

+ Analyzes project results to gauge compliance with Company practices and policies, the effective design and execution of formal control activities, and estimate the significance of performance deviation based upon audit entity and consolidated Company materiality to assess, document, and present internal and regulatory disclosure requirements and prioritize resolution

+ Validates the accuracy of Company records relating to assets, liabilities, receipts, expenditures and related transactions and recommends improvements to system and management controls designed to safeguard Company resources, promote Company growth, and ensure compliance with local, state and governmental laws and regulations

+ Responsible for the preparation, monitoring and review of audit examinations, including the results of special investigations, internal control deficiencies, and corrective action plans

+ Assessing compliance with Company policies, procedures, rules, regulations, laws, best practices, and principles of ethical behavior to all work performed

+ This position reports to the Vice President Internal Audit and has multiple direct reports

Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities):

+ Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years relevant experience or associate’s degree with 9+ years relevant experience or 11+ years of relevant experience

+ Professional certification such as CPA, CIA or CISA

+ Five to seven years of public accounting or internal audit experience in a leadership position

+ Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) business process control testing experience

+ Has worked in a publicly listed multinational corporation, preferably headquartered in the US

+ Effective communicator and able to engage in constructive conversations on gaps observed and improvement/remediation steps required. Determined, and unyielding in the standards and beliefs

+ Self-starter, able to work independently

+ Thorough understanding of business process control design and auditing techniques, with an emphasis on manufacturing

+ In-depth knowledge of GAAP guidelines and Sarbanes-Oxley rules and regulations

+ Five years’ experience with integrated governance, risk management, and compliance concepts and frameworks, including alignment of strategy, processes, technology, and people to optimize the achievement of organizational and assurance objectives

+ Direct supervisory experience in coaching, mentoring and developing audit staff

+ Demonstrated experience with designing and implementing automated audit techniques and tools to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of obtaining and validating business information to achieve internal and external audit objectives

Highly Qualified Candidates Will Also Possess These Qualifications:

+ Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Auditing from an accredited university

+ Prior experience working for a Big Four accounting firm

+ Experience using and developing data analytics

+ Ability to prioritize projects for multiple people; meet deadlines efficiently and work in a fast-paced environment

+ Excellent oral and written communication skills to clearly and concisely present information to Company management

Working Environment and Physical Efforts:

Work is typically performed in an office setting. The incumbent is regularly required to sit for extended periods of time, as well as talk and listen on the phone and in personal conversations or meetings. The environment is fast paced and demanding most of the time. Approximately 15% overnight travel is required for this position (both domestic and international). The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms while working in the office with various files and forms and while working on the computer. The employee is occasionally required to move about the office. Incumbent must utilize proper ergonomic safeguards such as monitor height and positions, keyboard location and height and proper wrists rests. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds in working with large files, binders, and computer equipment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Benefits

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family’s overall wellness needs are met. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location and can include the following:

+ Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)

+ 401k retirement plan with company match

+ Paid time off

+ Employer paid life insurance

+ Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave

+ Work Life Support

+ Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year

+ Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more

Valmont does not discriminate against any employee or applicant in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

If you have a disability and require any assistance in filling out the application for employment email [email protected].

Valmont is here to modernize vital infrastructure and increase agricultural productivity, sustainably and reliably. We galvanize steel to last a century with minimal environmental impact. We modernize irrigation to feed a growing population by utilizing the latest technology. We harden the electrical grid to enable the delivery of reliable power to millions of homes around the world. And we help make communities everywhere safer, cleaner and more connected through our smart infrastructure technology.

Valmont serves two primary markets — agriculture and infrastructure — and seven diverse product lines: Utility, Lighting and Transportation, Telecom, Solar, Coatings, Irrigation and Ag Tech. We manufacture products in 85 facilities spread across six continents, and we do business in 100 different countries.

That’s what Valmont does. We conserve resources and improve life, finding ways to make innovation and technology beneficial in the real world.

+ That’s the value we add.