Audit Supervisor

We are seeking an Audit Supervisor to join our Internal Audit team. This role is ideal for a proactive leader who can balance hands-on audit execution with developing others, while delivering meaningful insights that improve business operations. You will lead complex operational and financial audits, guide audit teams, and help shape how Internal Audit partners with the business.

Position Summary

Leads high-impact, risk-based audits across Sysco by using data, analytics, and automation to focus on key risks, expand coverage, and deliver meaningful insights that strengthen processes, controls, and business decision-making. Requires up to 25% travel to operating locations across the U.S. and Canada.

Essential Responsibilities

Lead risk-based financial and operational audits from planning through reporting, focusing resources on the highest-impact risks across operating companies, divisions, and the corporate office.

Assess business objectives, emerging risks, process performance, and control effectiveness to shape audit scope, priorities, and staffing.

Use data analytics throughout the audit lifecycle to evaluate data quality, identify trends and anomalies, and uncover risk and improvement opportunities.

Advance automation and technology-enabled testing to expand coverage, streamline fieldwork, and enable repeatable analytics and continuous auditing.

Adapt scope and testing as risks and insights emerge while maintaining alignment with audit objectives, standards, and stakeholder expectations.

Apply critical thinking and professional judgment to solve audit challenges and support sound conclusions.

Deliver value-added financial, operational, and systems insights that identify root causes, trends, and opportunities to strengthen performance.

Partner with stakeholders to resolve risks, control gaps, process inefficiencies, and automation opportunities.

Lead special projects that advance analytics adoption, process standardization, automation, and emerging risk assessment.

Strengthen Internal Audit methodology, analytical approaches, automation initiatives, and team knowledge sharing.

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

Supervise Staff and Senior Auditors by providing direction, coaching, review, and project performance feedback across audit planning, execution, data analysis, issue development, and communication of results. Build team capability in risk-based auditing, analytics, automation-enabled testing, professional judgment, continuous improvement, and business partnership, while supporting recruiting and hiring for these capabilities.

Qualifications: 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. 
• CPA or CIA designation is a plus and is strongly encouraged but not required. 
• Minimum of four years experience in public accounting or industry auditing. 
• Experience with risk-based auditing and data analytics.
• Experience with process improvement, automation, or technology-enabled audit techniques is preferred.

Language Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate audit results, data insights, risks, and control concepts into clear, actionable messages for operating company and corporate management. Bilingual skills are a plus but not required.

Accounting knowledge: Strong accounting, financial, operational, and control knowledge, with the ability to assess risk, evaluate processes, interpret financial information, and identify practical improvement opportunities.

Data, Analytics and Technology Skills:

Demonstrated ability to use data, analytics, and technology to assess risk, evaluate processes and controls, expand audit coverage, and generate actionable insights. Proficiency with Excel is required; experience with data visualization, query, automation, or audit analytics tools such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Alteryx, or similar platforms is preferred.

Physical Demands: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

Sitting, standing, walking, talking on the phone, typing on the computer, lifting of luggage and audit materials (including laptop computer), bending, stooping, etc. (when reviewing warehouse operations), up to 25% travel by plane to locations across the U.S. and Canada.

Work Environment:   The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The work environment includes offices and warehouses.  Warehouses can be noisy and dangerous during the operation of equipment.