Senior Auditor, Global Audit & Risk

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Controls Audit and Risk Excellence (CARE) is a key component of Diageo’s governance framework, promoting the improvement of governance, risk management, controls and compliance by:

• Giving independent assurance over the quality of management of key risks.

• Supporting Diageo to enforce clear standards on governance, risk management controls and compliance, and to maintain excellent management assurance processes.

• Supporting the Audit Committee and Executive management to understand Diageo’s key risks and risk management activity across the business.

The role will be a part of a global, diverse and inclusive team of approximately 75 individuals based across hubs including London, New York City, Bangalore, Budapest, Mexico City, São Paulo, Bogota and Shanghai.

About the Role:

There is a high degree of complexity in the role. Global Audit has a global remit, providing assurance over all Diageo operations including Demand companies, Supply operations and Global Functions. The successful candidate will be externally curious, able to collaborate efficiently and act decisively.

Responsibilities:

• Capable of quickly building relationships ‘on the ground’ with business partners, enabling strong understanding of business processes, risks and control gaps. 

• Deliver strong performance as a team member on key audits.

• Demonstrate an understanding of business risks across multiple process areas.   

• Empowered to articulate effective and efficient risk mitigation strategies. Demonstrate thorough and consistent knowledge and application of our ways of working (WoWs).  

• Apply root cause and data-driven analysis to support the development of impactful business insights and efficiency opportunities. 

• Understand the Diageo Purpose (specifically the importance of governance & compliance), and clearly articulate how others can understand, connect to and help deliver it.

• Understand the internal and external risk radar to enable the business to identify solutions to existing and emerging risks. 

• Leverage strengths within Global Audit and the wider business and be open to ideas and learnings from others. 

Key Accountabilities:

• Assurance Assignments: Responsible for carrying out audits of functional / business areas to assess the design and Operating effectiveness of the control. Use of data analytics to test the operating effectiveness of the control. As part of audit field work conduct testing of specified areas and identify control weakness along with dimension of risk and prepare audit report in discussion with the Audit leadership team. Transformation of audit findings into proposals for practical measures and discussion of these recommendations with Process owners/Management to agree on corrective action plans

• Risk Champion: Support the identification and delivery of insights that are highly valued, identify root causes, share best practices. Identify potential for improvement in all business processes.

• Business Partnering: Build great relationships ‘on the ground’ with audit stakeholders, properly understanding business processes, risks, and control gaps. Participate in functional initiatives proactively.

Experience/Skills Required:

• Audit or Controls experience in either ‘Big 4’ environment or multinational entity

• Good understanding of audit (statutory/internal), and/or SOX, risk management processes

• Good understanding of risk and mitigation approaches

• Attention to detail with ability to go in-depth and leverage data meaningfully

• Good written and presentation skills

• Collaborative approach and stakeholder influencing skills

• Ability to work independently and proactively drive tasks through to completion

• Ability to leverage technology to drive efficiencies

• Ability to work across cultures

• Ability to prioritize, move with urgency and overcome challenges/obstacles

• Fluent in English

• Fluent in Portuguese and / or Spanish

• Travel (approximately 35 to 40%) will be required.

While not mandatory, exposure or experience of some or all of the following areas may be beneficial:

• Risk based auditing, including the ability to review core financials and business data to identify potential risks and insights.

• Experience in SAP and data analysis tools.

• In-depth understanding of business processes and systems.

• Project and change management experience.

• Root cause analysis - understanding an issue or complex problem and the key drivers behind it.

The successful candidate will also demonstrate effortless familiarity with core financial concepts, Microsoft Excel, and analytical skills.

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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