The Opportunity
Internal Audit at Syngenta is on a transformation journey. We are building a tech-enabled, insight-driven audit function - one that moves beyond traditional sampling and reporting to deliver real-time risk intelligence, continuous monitoring, and genuine business partnering value across the organization.
To make this happen, we're hiring for strategic and hands on role of Internal Audit Digital Lead: a connector, an enabler, and a pragmatic innovator who bridges the world of internal audit with Syngenta's growing digital ecosystem and drives digital transformation of internal audit function.
This is not a pure technology role. It's a role for someone who thinks like an auditor and speaks the language of data - someone who can walk into a business function, understand how they're managing risk digitally, identify the gaps, and help close them. Collaboratively.
You'll work directly with the Head of Group Internal Audit, as well as IT, Finance, Compliance, and business unit leaders - driving the adoption of AI, advanced data analytics, automation and deployment of digital tools into how we plan, execute and report audit results. in a fundamentally more intelligent way.
What You'll Do
Lead digital transformation for Internal Audit
- Own and evolve the Internal Audit digital strategy and roadmap, translating it into practical priorities and concrete outcomes
- Be an integral part of internal audit transformation: execute on internal audit vision and operating model for technology-enabled assurance;
Build the Audit Analytics Gallery
- Map existing analytics and data tools already in use across Syngenta's business functions
- Identify which are most relevant and accessible for audit purposes - and make them available to the audit team in a structured, user-friendly way
- Over time, develop additional analytics where gaps exist, in collaboration with IT and functional teams
Enable better audit fieldwork
- Support audit teams in using data analytics during engagements: transactional analysis, process flow reviews, benchmark comparisons, anomaly identification
- Work with process mining tools (e.g., Celonis) where already deployed, reviewing how functions are using them and advising on improvement or coverage gaps, and facilitate the development of process mining tools for the areas where they are not developed by the business.
- Help auditors expand from sample-based testing toward broader data coverage
Build toward continuous risk monitoring and continuous auditing
- Drive the development of a Risk Control Tower: a risk-sensing capability that monitors key indicators across financial, operational, and production areas with the focus to enhance risk anticipation
- Start small, prove the concept, and build from there
Digitalize internal audit processes
- Identify and implement AI and digital tools that streamline how the team works: planning, testing, documentation, workpaper management, reporting
- Help the team adopt AI-assisted drafting tools (e.g., Austyn/Copilot) for report writing and communication - practical, low-effort wins that free up time for higher-value work
Coach and upskill the audit team
- Be the go-to person within the audit team for all things digital - setting direction, building capability, and creating early wins that demonstrate value
- Coach, supervise, and develop team members on deploying digital tools; champion digital mindset, digital, data analytics and AI upskilling and contribute to modernizing audit methodology, and knowledge assets
- Help colleagues become more data-literate and comfortable with analytical tools
Collaborate, not build in isolation
- Build a close working relationship with Syngenta's IT and Digital team - your key partner in navigating the data landscape and sourcing the right tools and data
- Engage with business functions in a partnering spirit: understanding their controls, learning from what they already do well, and recommending improvements rather than auditing from a distance