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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.
Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness.
Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has a meaningful role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we build shared value. Diageo North America is the leading premium drinks business and one of the best performing CPGs. It is the largest market of Diageo PLC, and our success is built on a rich heritage, from a centuries old bourbon recipe to aged Mexican tequilas and classic Caribbean spiced rum.
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Diageo North America Supply is comprised of 12 domestic production facilities across the United States, Canada and the US Virgin Islands with a focus on quality and sustainability.
Role Dimensions:
The Business Integrity program is an internal element of the company's overall governance and risk management activity. The program is focused on bringing to life our overall performance ambition and must also meet, at a minimum, the best practice standards benchmarked against FCPA sentencing guidelines, or similar regulations across UK and the rest of Europe. This includes maintaining and embedding the code of business conduct (the code) and an appropriate framework of policies and standards that support the code; developing appropriate principled based engagement and risk based training to support application of the code and its policies; monitoring potential breaches and coordinating responses; assessing compliance risk and ensuring that employees are aware of our speak up whistleblowing channels and ensuring oversight and execution of the business integrity program at market level.
Ethical behavior is increasingly synonymous with a company's overall sustainability and the potential breakdown of this whether legal, financial or reputational, could have serious consequences for Diageo.
You will act as business partner to your market leadership team to help them own, drive and manage their accountabilities related to ‘doing business in the right way'. You will act as second line of defense to your market, overseeing risk indicators and potential red flags, looking for insights and root causes for breaches and advise on / coordinate interventions to mitigate risks in your market.
Top Accountabilities:
Functional:
- Act as trusted advisor across all levels of the organization to provide decision support on any controls, risk or compliance matters particularly related to North America Brand Homes or Visitor Centers.
- Coordinate compliance risk assessment process and monitor it for deficiencies in compliance related practices related to North America Brand Homes or Visitor Centers. Actively search for risks using internal and external data sources. Ensure mitigation plans are deployed. Use judgment and intervene to ensure course correction. Spot interdependencies and concentration of risks.
- Create and shape a market's risk management culture in partnership with senior management team which includes building capabilities around controls and risk ownership and understanding to enable proactive risk identification, comprehensive assessments and management.
- Facilitate risk management activities such as the consolidation of KRIs, coordinate periodic governance forums (i.e. RMC) and supervise automatic monitoring / analytics to enable simplified and proactive management of risk.
- Be responsible for the CARM process integration for recent business acquisitions, by working with the leadership of the newly acquired entity and advise functional heads / control owners of control expectations in the event business processes are not immediately integrated.
- Developing appropriate training to support application of the Code, and policies in high risk areas
- Lead investigations into allegations received that may be a breach of our Code, Policies or Standards
Experience:
- +7 years of relevant experience in governance, risk management, audit, SOX controls, compliance and ethics
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Exceptional ability to build and maintain genuine relationships based on mutual trust & respect
- Successful management of senior partners at all levels and validated ability to hold others to account, resulting in strong and positive outcomes
- Must have demonstrated successful team management experience
- Audit and controls experience in consulting/Big4s or similar confirmed experience is preferable
- Strong understanding of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and COSO framework is needed
- Business commercial competence & knowledge including proficiency in analytics tools such as Power BI
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 the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
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