Job Description

Are you an internal auditor seeking an international environment to grow your career? CERN’s Internal Audit Service offers a unique opportunity to enhance your expertise across a diverse and exciting audit landscape. Join us to make an impact by strengthening governance, risk management, and control processes at CERN and its Pension Fund.

Your role:

• Perform internal audits, delivering risk-based and objective assurance;
• Prepare clear audit reports with factual observations and actionable recommendations, and follow up on their implementation.
• Contribute to creating risk-based audit plans for CERN and its Pension Fund;
• Support the Audit Committee meetings;
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including External Auditors;
• Ensure alignment with Global Internal Audit Standards;
• Participate in quality assurance and improvement initiatives;
• Stay informed on CERN activities and professional developments through training.

Skills

• Communication: strong active listening skills; ability to present ideas clearly and effectively, adapting style and content to different audiences.
• Problem-solving: Capable of analyzing complex information, identifying key issues, and providing clear, concise conclusions using a structured, pragmatic approach. Objective decision-making based on available facts is essential.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in teams while managing tasks autonomously.
• Integrity, respect, diplomacy, and tact.
• Data analytics.

Desired qualifications

• Knowledge or experience in IT auditing or IT systems.
• Experience with ESG audits.
• Familiarity with accounting principles.
• Professional certifications such as CIA, CISA, CFE, CA/CPA are a plus.
• Fluent in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in auditing, accounting, finance, economics (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
• Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 17 January 2025 at 23:59 AM (midnight) CET.

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-March-2025

Job reference: DG-IA-2024-208-GRAE

Field of work: Support Services (Finance, HR, Legal, Procurement)

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5134 and 5647 Swiss Francs (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter – fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN’s mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.