Supply Chain Auditor

Salary: £30,000 – £36,000 per year

This global engineering services and products manufacturer is seeking a Supply Chain Auditor to join their growing Internal Audit team. This role will involve extensive travel around the country to visit all sites, so a company car will be part of the package as well as all expenses and overnight stays covered by the client. The overall purpose of the role will be to travel across all UK branches to audit all systems and processes within each branch and report back on this: –
* Extensive training first and then you will undertake visits (fixed dates and unannounced dates) to all Service Centres/Sites within the network actioning and completing auditing/compliance activity across all systems and procedures. Overseeing the auditing of their internal MRP system to ensure everything is recorded accurately on there including purchasing, sales orders, and stock management
* Perform Remote Audit/compliance process for all Service Centres across all systems and procedures. This process will be actioned by a remote review and may create a service Centre visit
* Regularly review any actions or resolutions related to the auditing/compliance activity undertaken to ascertain results
* Perform trending reviews for all Commercial and Transactional compliance areas of the business, the outcome of which will be provided to management for review.
* Reporting and projects to monitor Commercial and Transactional functionality for all Service Centres
* From Information obtained in Audit and Compliance activities/reviews recommend improvements to Commercial Business Controls, including active involvement in Continuous Business Improvements Strategies and developments
* Offer daily guidance, support and assistance to various branches Commercial/Transactional/ System and process queries.
* Contributing to the maintenance of health and safety in the workplace.
* Understanding of Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet structures
* Understanding of cash management and debt collection
* Understanding of consignment stock principles
* Recommend improvements to all processes
* Regular liaison with Service Centre Managers including senior management, warehouse and logistics management and office management on regular basis to report on any findings or improvements that need to take place with processes and systems
To apply you will have: –
* Ideally worked in a similar auditing role within a supply chain/OEM market experience
* Experience of stock management principles and systems including stock, sales order and purchase ordering and warehousing systems and processes
* Good knowledge of MS Excel and Word
* Must be prepared to work overtime during busy times
* Must be prepared to do extensive travel around the country
* Ability to prepare and deliver management information within required deadlines
* Ability to prepare reports and statistical information
* Good knowledge of some or all categories of Maintenance, Repair and Operational product and service range would be ideal
* Understanding of sales, margin, and customer price savings
* Understanding of optimised stock levels within overall customer commitments
* A degree in supply chain management or a business degree or HNC would also be considered
* CIAA qualification and/or diploma in internal auditing level 4 would be ideal (but not essential)
What’s on offer: –
* Extensive training and development
* A company car
* All travel and overnight stays covered by the company
* 25 days holiday
* Remote working once training has progressed