We are pleased you have stopped at VF Audit's Job Shop. If you are considering making a career transition - VF Internal Audit may be an excellent next step for you. We would hasten to add that what we have to offer at VF Internal Audit is not for everyone and is only "right" for a few. We do not represent the mainstream profile of an Internal Audit organization. Our expectations are a bit different from many others. Download our audit brochure which should help you better understand the nature of our department, or read on.

Core Attributes

How do you describe our associates?

• One look at us and you will know that business savvy people are members of our internal audit group. In working at the largest apparel company in the world, our associates must understand market-driven strategic planning and assurance. In addition, while we work in VF Internal Audit, many of us have been audited in our previous work experience. This experience helps us to understand our customers' interests and see the "big picture."
• No doubt about it, we have a motivated group. Our people take initiative (hey, building this web site was one!) and they relentlessly pursue objectives. There is no excuse for being bored here! We encourage our people to be proactive and, as a result, they often exceed our expectations and the expectation of our customers.
• Every member of VF Internal Audit has process oriented experience. Our associates understand process based management theory and will often map and script out processes/functions to enhance their understanding.
• Similarly, our associates have systems oriented experience -- they are proficient personal computer users and they understand how automated systems can enable processes.
• Naturally, we all have a strong knowledge of internal control theory and practices. Most of us have prior experience designing or auditing controls in some part of a business. More significantly though, we are not the "enforcers" of effective internal controls. We are an integral part of VF's internal control process. Maintenance of effective internal controls is the responsibility of everyone at VF. Our mission is to enhance OUR internal control environment.
• Although we come from many different backgrounds, geographically and culturally, the common denominator that links all of us together is that we enjoy working with each other and we are genuinely interested in the people we work with around the world.

These core attributes help us to understand the viewpoints of our customers and collaborate with them in development of action plans that enhance VF's business practices in a meaningful manner. In short, these are the attributes that we value most in our associates.

Position Descriptions

VF Internal Audit seeks proven achievers with top flight academic records and strong professional experience to work on a team basis providing strategic assurance to VF's businesses. We are a very diverse group. Our people are finance specialists, accountants, global supply chain managers, engineers, HR professionals, technology specialists and they typically hold several professional certifications. A three to four year track in VF Internal Audit can be expected, during which heavy exposure to world - class business processes and technology can be obtained.

Requirements

• Must be willing to work as a telecommuter.
• Minimum 2 years professional experience, some audit experience preferred, but not required.
• Professional certification (CPA, CISA, CMA, CIA, CFE, PHR, CSCP, CISSP, CRM) or securing professional certification preferred.
• Masters in accounting, finance, information systems, global supply chain, engineering, apparel and textile management, industrial relations, organizational design and development, or human resources management preferred, but not required.
• Travel: 40 - 45% annually from our Greensboro hub; 60 - 70% annually from our Hong Kong hub.

Compensation / Employee Benefits

VF Internal Audit offers an attractive compensation / employee benefits package including the following:

• Competitive salaries
• Incentive compensation plan
• Life, health, vision, dental, and disability coverage
• Generous vacation and holiday schedule
• Savings and retirement plans
• Tuition reimbursement
• Training (64+ hours annual CPE)
• Telecommuter office set-up assistance
• Flexible office hours

Types of Jobs in VF Internal Audit

Brand Management Analysts - We have a team based in Greensboro that focuses primarily on consumer and customer facing activities. These Brand Management Analysts typically hold MBAs in finance or marketing and conduct reviews of brand management in areas such as merchandising, design and development; marketing; account and sales management; licensing; retailing; and eCommerce. After several years experience, then associates typically matriculate into consumer or customer facing roles.

Supply Chain Analysts - VF operates a vast supply chain, which is a network of demand fulfillment competencies strategically located all over the world. We have a team of Supply Chain Analysts based in Greensboro whose members hold educational backgrounds and experience in global supply chain management, engineering and computer science. Our Supply Chain Analysts are typically CSCMs and CIAs. These associates conduct reviews of VF’s demand forecasting, production planning, materials management / procurement, manufacturing, sourcing, distribution / logistics, retail floor space management and replenishment, and order management / customer service functions. After several years experience, then associates typically matriculate into supply chain management roles.

Senior Technology Auditors - We have a team stationed in Greensboro that has VF-wide responsibility for audits of VF’s incredible information systems and technology environment. This team is comprised of Senior Technology Auditors who typically have computer science degrees and are CIAs and CSSPs. VF is an industry leader in the usage of information systems and technology for competitive advantage, and this team is connected at the hip with VF’s thought leaders who oversee this area. After several years experience, then associates typically matriculate into positions with our Global Business Technology group.

Senior Financial Auditors - VF maintains very high financial standards and strong internal accounting and reporting controls. VF’s financial community is located at each shared corporate center that provides routine financial services. Finance associates are also positioned within each brand group to ensure strong front-line analysis of strategic and tactical opportunities around each brand. Our team of Senior Financial Auditors, who are typically CPAs, CIAs, CMAs and CFEs, is based in Greensboro and conducts reviews of VF’s accounting and financial reporting, taxation, treasury, mergers and acquisitions, etc. Their reviews can occur in many different locations, including, but not limited to: Moscow, Istanbul, Bangalore, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles or Greensboro. After several years experience, then associates typically matriculate into finance related positions in VF.

Human Resource Analysts - Human resource management is a critical activity in VF. People do make the difference and VF management recognizes and respects this principle - - both in words and deeds. In fact, VF is often ranked as one of “Americas Most Admired Companies” (Fortune Magazine, 2007). VF Internal Audit conducts reviews of HRM practices in areas such as compensation, benefits, organizational design and development. Since VF has 50,000+ associates and more than half of our associates are located outside of the United States, our Human Resource Analysts (typically PHRs and CIAs) face great diversity as they must review multi-national human resource practices. After several years experience, the associates typically matriculate into human resource management roles.

Business Practices Analysts - At VF we also believe it is important to continually enhance our business practices. Accordingly, a small team of Business Practices Analysts, based at VF’s headquarters in Greensboro - - and a larger network of like-kind associates working in VF’s operating companies - - are continually identifying and implementing enhancements to VF’s business practices; in instances of promoting stronger Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, uplifting current financial and administrative practices, improving records and information management, or assisting with integration of VF’s acquisitions. After several years experience, then associates typically matriculate into positions as Senior financial Auditors or they transition directly into staff finance roles.

Factory Auditors – The value of VF Corporation is embodied in its portfolio of brands, supported by the people, processes, technologies and capital employed to build and protect such brands. Therefore, it is critically important that every facility involved in the manufacture of a branded product, and brands for which VF is licensed to produce, follow VF’s factory compliance standards. VF Internal Audit employs full-time teams of Factory Auditors located principally in Southeast Asia and Central America to ensure no production of a VF branded product or a VF licensed product occurs prior to the facility having passed a certified VF factory inspection.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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Testimonials
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"I joined VF Internal Audit in November, 1984, because I admired the Company's strong commitment to financial control, its conservative management style, and its commitment to using internal audit as a training ground for future management. Audit was supported as a key management tool, for cost control, ethics, etc. And this was the best way I could determine to be exposed to as much of the Company as possible...

...The key to maximizing your trip through Internal Audit at VF is to travel, vary assignments across divisions, and stay in audit long enough to get a broad exposure. Too many want to leave after a year; I chose to spend 61 months in I/A, and survived!

Personal and professional contacts build as an internal auditor; one gains exposure to a wide variety of companies who are addressing similar problems in different, creative ways; building a knowledge-base of best practices that you can apply; learning how to negotiate to accomplish your objectives as an internal auditor while not alienating the auditee (perhaps the most useful skill I learned); and learning professional, ethical practices from the best overall company in the apparel business..."

Steve Fritz
President, VF Outlet
Reading, Pennsylvania

"Joining VF was an extremely challenging experience. I first served as manager of the EMEA-Asia internal audit team and then, after my first year, I worked for a period of time consolidating distribution operations on the continent. Thereafter, I was appointed Director of Finance for the Central Region of VF Europe Jeanswear and I had responsibility for delivery of shared financial services to VF's operations in the Benelux, France, Germany and elsewhere across Europe. Most recently, I was appointed controller for VF International. Since the moment I arrived at VF, it has been a rollercoaster ride!"

Patrick Willems
Controller, VF International
Belgium

If you want to see the world...If you want to see VF operations, not just financials...then VF Internal Audit may be for you."

Gwendolyn Wilkinson
Manager, Business Practices
VF Imagewear
Nashville, TN

"Prior to joining VF Internal Audit, I was an auditor with a "Big Six" firm and a division controller for another Fortune 500 Company. During all this time, I never thought I would be an internal auditor and I certainly had no interest in making a career out of auditing. Of course, I also had no idea how much value a well run internal audit function could bring to an organization, as well as to me, until I joined VF. I learned a great deal while working in VF Internal Audit and I ultimately realized my goal of continuing my financial management track by accepting a promotion outside of VF Internal Audit with one of VF's businesses."

Scott Roe
VP Finance and CFO - VF International
Lugano, Switzerland

Career Choice:
If you are seeking an internal audit position with a public accounting firm or some other type of professional services firm, you owe it to yourself to read on...

We all face choices and your career choice is yours alone to make. Whatever that choice is, others should respect you for it. But make a choice with your eyes wide open.

In recent years, public accounting firms and other boutique professional services firms have launched an all-out assault on the internal auditing community and have, to a considerable degree, established commercially viable internal audit service groups. They have been very successful in replacing those in-house internal audit groups that were dysfunctional or lacked the critical mass to justify an in-house function. In many instances, these outsourcing decisions have been very prudent decisions for management to make.

This has created a new career path for some. A qualified individual can now go to work for one of these firms and apply his or her auditing skills to a fairly diverse array of internal audit clients. The internal audit outsourcer then visits one or more industries and enjoys the association of working with other people who have decided to make the selling and delivery of internal auditing services their chosen career path.

No doubt, a career as a generalist in internal auditing can be rewarding and meaningful for some. This is one choice. The other choice would be to join an organization such as VF Internal Audit. You should consider us if you don't aspire to a generalist's career in auditing. We are simply not looking for these types of people. We expect our associates to own the consequences of the services they deliver, not simply offer advice, wrapped in disclaimers, that may or may not have useful consequences.

We want our internal auditors to function as experts. They are part of our internal control process, not outside observers -- camped onto the shell of our company, skipping from one client to the next. We look for people willing to make a genuine commitment to our company -- who have a vested interest in making VF as successful as possible. We are also looking for people who are interested in building a career in VF, as a leader in the apparel industry -- rather than a career as an internal auditor working in a professional services firm. If you are currently working in a professional services firm, this experience doesn't exclude you from our consideration. We will consider you for position openings in internal audit. You have acquired many valuable skills that are important elements of what we need. We'll train, or retrain you, to do the rest of the job for us.

As previously stated, we do not generally promote internal audit careers at VF. Ultimately, we want our internal auditors to migrate out of internal audit and into other disciplines within VF. If you form an association with VF Internal Audit, your path is one in which you can make a growing contribution to the value of VF, as a future leader in our company and in our industry. Above all else, the careful distinction to draw is one between choosing to embark on a career as an internal auditor or using internal audit as a gateway into a career managing brands, running a supply chain, managing human resources or technology, or being a CFO. This is your other choice.

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If you find us of interest, you may want to download our brochure. And, if you want to pursue opportunities with us, you can apply online.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

To VF Headquarters:

From Charlotte: I-85 North to exit 121 Holden Road. Left on Holden Road. Left onto Benjamin Pkwy. (Note: Benjamin Pkwy will turn into Cone Blvd after passing through the intersection of Battleground Ave and Benjamin Pkwy). Left on N. Elm Street. Left onto Corporate Center Blvd.

From Downtown Marriott: From the Marriott parking lot, turn left onto N. Elm Street. Turn left on Corporate Center Blvd.

From Piedmont Triad International Airport: From Airport Pkwy. turn right onto Bryan Blvd. towards Greensboro. Take the Westridge Rd. exit and turn right onto Westridge Road. Turn right onto Battleground Ave. Turn left onto Pisgah Church Rd. (1st stoplight) Turn right onto N. Elm St. Turn right onto Corporate Center Blvd.

From Raleigh: I-40 West to exit 128 East Lee Street turn right at end of ramp. Follow signs on Lee Street for Highway 29 N/70 W/220 N take this highway. Exit Wendover Ave. West/220 exit. Turn right onto Elm Street. Turn left onto Corporate Center Blvd.

From Roanoke: 220 South (Turns into Battleground Ave.) Turn left onto Pisgah Church Rd. (1st stoplight) Turn right onto N. Elm St. Turn right onto Corporate Center Blvd.

From Winston-Salem: I-40 East to Route 68 North exit. Take Airport exit (Bryan Blvd.). Take the Westridge Rd. Exit and turn right onto Westridge Road. Turn right onto Battleground Ave. Turn left onto Pisgah Church Rd. (1st stoplight) Turn right onto N. Elm St. Turn right onto Corporate Center Blvd.

In Asia: From Hong Kong International Airport:
Take Route 8 ---> 4A exit ----> Route 3 ---> Ching Cheung Road ----> Route 7 ----> 7B exit ----> Kwun Tong ----> Kowloon Bay ----> Kai Cheung Road
10/F, Kadar Bldg., 22 Kai Cheung Road, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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