Vice President, Internal Audit

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Job Description: As a direct report to the CFO and Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, the Vice President, Global Internal Audit will provide leadership, strategy, and planning for all internal audit activities across Cooper Standard. This position has final responsibility for all organization-wide audits, and ownership of the audit strategy and resulting audit business objectives and work products. The mission of the department is to provide an independent and qualitative assessment of risk and executive objective reviews. Further, Internal Audit will assist the business in driving continuous improvement in quality and execution by providing unbiased insight and recommendations to management, including value-added partnership via targeted process audits. Specifically, she/he will be expected to: - Develop a risk-based audit plan annually that is discussed with Company executives and reviewed and approved by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors (“Audit Committee”) - Promote a culture of integrity through communication and collaboration with all internal and external stakeholders. - Lead the Company’s Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance testing program as determined with f...