Here at The Edinburgh Woollen Mill we have a fantastic opportunity for you to join our vibrant head office team as a Field Based Internal Auditor reporting to our Head Office in Carlisle, Cumbria.
If you would like to be part of a forward-thinking business and have a job with excellent career prospects, we would love to hear from you!
The role
The successful applicant will need to be able to carry out regular store visits covering our stores in Scotland, North of England and Greater Manchester Area . Applicants will also need to be flexible in visiting Head Office in Carlisle as and when necessary.
Key responsibilities:
- To safeguard company assets by providing an effective and efficient internal audit service to retail operations and distribution centres within the company.
- Conducting risk assessments on key business activities within stores and warehouses, using this information to guide the areas covered in audits by creating a checklist for standardised assessments.
- Prepare and conduct a program of store visits to carry out audits on the identified risk areas making recommendations to mitigate these risks to store and area managers, and head office.
- Ensuring compliance with company policies, procedures and regulations, where applicable, to stores and warehouses.
- To give input, by way of advice and training, where poorly-operated systems highlight a breakdown in control.
- Gathering and analysing data from till and web transactions to identify risks and fraud.
- To carry out investigations where breaches of procedures appear to have taken place, and the company has been exposed to loss. Report these to retail operations and H.R. and offer support for them to take the next steps.
- To provide effective internal audit assessment of company stocktaking procedures and controls in shops and warehouses. Liaising with external audit where necessary.
- To monitor the movements of stock to minimise loss to the company.
- To plan and be responsible for the successful delivery of the annual stocktake programme.
- To assess the results of store and warehouse stocktakes and investigate where results are not in line with expectations.
- To keep updated with knowledge of new systems, changes to procedures, and current company issues.
- To provide stores with a first point of contact for security.
About us:
The Edinburgh Woollen Mill is a retail business comprising of over 200 units, including High Street, Tourist & Destination sites, predominantly Fashion and Home.
Head Office
The company headquarters are in Carlisle, Cumbria. Carlisle has a principal station on the West Coast main line from London Euston and sits on the M6 motorway. This location provides ready access to the major facilities expected of a city, combined with the possibility of living in one of the finest countryside areas in the UK.
Almost every conceivable type of outdoors and countryside activity is at hand. There are fishing rivers, hill walking areas and golf courses nearby and the Lake District is a short drive away.
High Street stores
The Edinburgh Woollen Mill has mainstream high street stores selling ladies and menswear for the 45 plus customer. Outlets are located in a wide variety of market and provincial towns across the UK and Ireland
Tourist Shops and Visitor Centres
We have specialty tourist stores, where gift items and other products reflect the stores location. The outlets, which trade under an individual, often local, fascia, are in key tourist locations throughout the UK. Many stores are on busy tourist routes and benefit from coach visits where food service and exhibitions are all part of the attraction.
Destination Shopping
There are Destination Sites which contain all of the Company's concepts and other brands to increase their attractiveness as a retail destination. The sites trade under local, individual fascias such as Antartex Village, and Kernow Mill, Mackinnon Mills.
If you would like to be part of a forward-thinking business and have a job with excellent career prospects, we would love to hear from you!