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Job Description :

Which company will you join?

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!

At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one’s talent and personality.

Purpose:

The Global Audit function is a key component of Diageo’s governance framework, promoting the improvement of governance, risk management, controls, and compliance by delivering an assurance programme to provide clear opinions on the overall control environment and ensure the programme is sufficient in scope (depth of review and coverage of risks) to allow the Audit Committee to discharge its duties effectively and efficiently. This is achieved through conducting robust, risk-focused audits based on an annual audit and risk plan which is agreed with the Audit Committee.

The role holder will be a part of a truly global diverse team based across a number of hubs including London, New York, Bangalore, Budapest, Nairobi, and Shanghai.

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. Successful candidates need to be able to understand the risks and deliver high quality audit work across everything Diageo does.

The role has direct exposure to senior executives (Audit Committee, senior management including Diageo executives) and is responsible for providing quality assurance and support to understand Diageo’s key risks and risk management capability, and strategically influencing to take actions where there are gaps and/or opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of controls.

Travel (approximately 30%) will be required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery of high quality and comprehensive risk management and internal audit assurance across a broad range of functions and geographies. Thoughtfully influence the Diageo leadership population to take additional / different action when gaps are found in the organization’s management of risk.

• Provide insights and solutions that promote effective and efficient business governance, enhanced controls, and better risk management. Support governance, risk, and compliance across the business by providing regular guidance to functional and business unit management.

• Actively participate in the shaping and delivery of the Global Audit strategy.

Win through Execution

• Impactful and can ‘stand your ground’ where required with senior customers. Quickly build positive relationships in fieldwork with business partners.

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

• Ensure audit results and key risks are well understood and accepted by leaders. Need to influence and strategically handle conflicts where these arise. Deliver thoughtful and value-adding insights on audit assignments that convince leaders to take actions that improve Diageo's performance and or risk / control environment.

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

• Own business partnering relationships with business leaders and mid-management outside of audits. Provide ongoing proactive advice and support to help those leaders better anticipate and respond to risks.

Inspire through Purpose

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

Shape the Future

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

• Partner with the business in finding solutions for risks and opportunities.

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

Invest in Talent

• Provide functional support and coaching to less experienced team members.

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

• Grow both functional and leadership capability and experience.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years of progressive experience in Big Four and/or internal audit in a multinational (ideally multicultural and multilingual) corporate environment.

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

• Root cause analysis and insights generation, understanding an issue or sophisticated problem, the key drivers behind it, and defining an action plan to address.

• Proven success with building, developing, and sustaining relationships with key customers, especially senior management (including executive management).

• People leadership skills and the ability to influence and direct where appropriate. Own key business partnering relationships within the function; know when to make a difference and judge when to intervene.

• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels both internally and externally (written and verbal). Fluent English is required.

• Qualified Accountant, MBA, or other professional qualification and equivalent experience.

• While not required, exposure or experience with some or all of the following areas is beneficial:

• Experience in use of data analysis tools.

• Project and change management - reviewing and assessing the impact of change on people and concluding on critical risks and steps to effectively manage those risks.

• Project management skills with experience of managing and delivering different priorities.

Diversity statement:

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for Diageo to succeed and realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the outstanding contribution each person brings.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

3WTC

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-01-16

Salary Range:

Minimum Salary:

$155310.375

Maximum Salary:

$258850.625

At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

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