Vice President, Internal Audit

Overview

Company Overview

Pattern Energy is a leading renewable energy company that develops, constructs, owns, and operates high-quality wind and solar generation, transmission, and energy storage facilities. Our mission is to transition the world to renewable energy through the sustainable development and responsible operation of facilities with respect for the environment, communities, and cultures where we have a presence.

Our approach begins and ends with establishing trust, accountability, and transparency. Our company values of creative spirit, pride of ownership, follow-through, and a team-first attitude drive us to pursue our mission every day. Our culture supports our values by fostering innovative and critical thinking and a deep belief in living up to our promises.

Headquartered in the United States, Pattern has a global portfolio of more than 30 power facilities and transmission assets, serving various customers that provide low-cost clean energy to millions of consumers.

Job Purpose

Pattern Energy is seeking a strategic internal audit leader. This role oversees the Internal Audit function by providing independent, risk-based assurance, advisory, and investigative services across the organization. This individual will work in collaboration with the Audit Committee and senior management to identify emerging risks, enhance governance and internal controls, ensure compliance with global audit standards, and support enterprise risk management.

The role also leads audit strategy, planning, resourcing, and quality improvement, delivers financial, operational, SOX, and forensic audits globally, and ensures the Internal Audit function adds measurable value while maintaining independence, high professional standards, and strong stakeholder engagement.

Key Accountabilities

• Communicate regularly with the Audit Committee and Executive Management team on the organization’s risk management activities and obtain approval for the risk-based Annual Internal Audit Plan.
• Assist Senior Management and the Audit Committee in understanding risks and other audit-related matters to meet their oversight responsibilities.
• Identify and communicate trends and emerging risks/issues that could impact the organization.
• Understand and meet the organization’s governance needs as well as those of the Audit Committee and Senior Management to provide the necessary assurance and consulting services.
• Continuously improve the quality of the Internal Audit Function to ensure Internal Audit efforts add value to the organization and that the maturity of the Internal Audit Function is at an advanced level. This process will consider emerging trends and successful practices in internal audit.
• Lead, hire and train high-quality, competent, ethical, objective Internal Audit staff who can add value to the organization and advance within Internal Audit and/or the organization.
• Engage co-source auditors and specialists as required and ensure engaged co-source auditors and specialists are qualified and perform quality work.
• Provide risk-objective, reasonable assurance, advisory, insight and foresight on the effectiveness of the organization’s internal control environment to key stakeholders.
• Provide forensic investigations globally across the organization.
• Partner and coordinate with second-line assurance functions to avoid duplication of assurance efforts and work with those functions to understand the risks/compliance requirements to the organization and how best to mitigate risk and comply with legal, regulatory and applicable standards.
• Provide financial and operational audits globally across the organization.
• Lead testing of Sarbanes-Oxley controls and advise the Internal Controls Department as needed.
• Ensure conformance with the Global Internal Audit Standards.
• Ensure that the Internal Audit Function remains free from all conditions that threaten the independence of the function and the ability of internal auditors to carry out their responsibilities in an unbiased objective manner.
• Monitor and advise on the organization’s enterprise risk management program.
• Help assess and identify risks (e.g., help the Audit Committee and…