Senior Internal Auditor – Business Process & Controls
The trusted eye behind Mimecast’s global controls
Join our Business Process & Controls team, where we turn complex, global operations into clear, well-governed processes our business can rely on. As a Senior Internal Auditor, you’ll be at the heart of how Mimecast strengthens controls, protects the integrity of our financial processes, and builds trust with stakeholders across the globe.
What You’ll Do:
As a Senior Internal Auditor in the Business Process & Controls team, you will play a pivotal role in documenting and strengthening processes across the business. Your responsibilities will include:
- Maintain and administer the AuditBoard platform, ensuring accurate configuration, data integrity, and effective interface with our global accounting function.
- Support administration of FloQast, including close checklist management and reconciliation tracking, keeping our close process and control documentation in sync.
- Document global business processes — including process flows, narratives, and risk and control matrices (RCMs) — and identify control gaps to recommend practical remediation.
- Plan walkthroughs and review design and operating effectiveness — partnering with process owners across finance, accounting, and beyond.
- Leverage AI tools, including Claude, to streamline process documentation, control testing, and audit workpaper preparation.
What You’ll Bring:
- 5+ years experience in internal audit, controls, or a related internal-controls function, ideally within a global organization.
- Demonstrated experience documenting business processes, including process narratives, flowcharts, and risk and control matrices (RCMs).
- Familiarity with internal control frameworks, such as COSO.
- Hands-on experience with AuditBoard (or other internal control software) preferred.
- Hands-on experience with FloQast or similar accounting close management software preferred.
- Strong understanding of accounting and financial processes; global accounting and public U.S. SEC company experience a plus.
- Comfort leveraging AI tools, such as Claude, to support documentation, testing, and workpaper preparation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, translating control concepts for non-audit stakeholders; Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field, CPA/CIA/CISA a plus.
What We Bring:
Join our Business Process & Controls team to sharpen your audit expertise across a truly global business, partnering with stakeholders in finance, accounting, and technology to strengthen how Mimecast documents and controls its operations.
Mimecast offers formal and on-the-job learning, a comprehensive benefits package to support you and your family, and cross functional teams that build your knowledge!
Our Hybrid Model: We provide the flexibility to live balanced, healthy lives through our hybrid working model, which champions both teamwork and individual flexibility. Employees come to the office two days per week, because working together in person:
- Fosters a culture of collaboration, communication, performance and learning
- Drives innovation and creativity within and between teams
- Introduces employees to priorities outside of their immediate realm
- Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community!
The base salary range for this position is 560,000 - 840,000 ZAR plus benefits. This range represents the minimum and maximum new hire compensation for this role. The position may also be eligible for incentive plans and additional benefits, in accordance with company policy and local regulations. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location with individual compensation also dependent on factors such as qualifications, experience, and skills. Final offers will reflect these considerations and may vary accordingly.
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Belonging at Mimecast
Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.
We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.
We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.
Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in internal audit, controls, or a related internal controls function
- Demonstrated experience documenting business processes (process narratives, flowcharts, RCMs)
- Familiarity with internal control frameworks (e.g., COSO)
- Hands-on experience with AuditBoard (or other internal control software)
- Hands-on experience with FloQast or similar Accounting Close Management software
- Strong understanding of accounting and financial processes
- Experience working with global accounting functions
- Public US SEC company experience
- Comfort leveraging AI tools (e.g., Claude) to support process documentation and audit workpapers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently in a global, cross-functional environment
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- CPA, CIA, or CISA certification
Mimecast Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mimecast and has not been reviewed or approved by Mimecast.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as solid and competitive relative to similar companies, with a wide range of role-based salary outcomes. Compensation satisfaction is reinforced by frequent references to pay feeling fair for the work in multiple contexts.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance is repeatedly described as a strong part of the package, often paired with other core benefits. The overall benefits bundle is framed as comprehensive and supportive of employee and family health needs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Workplace perks such as flexible hours, hybrid/remote options, free meals, and on-site fitness amenities are consistently presented as meaningful additions to total rewards. These perks appear to materially improve day-to-day employee experience beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Relentless protection. Resilient world. Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together. We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector – email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. Learn more about us at www.mimecast.com.
