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.

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

The successful candidate will be externally curious, able to collaborate efficiently and act decisively.

The role has direct exposure to senior executives (Audit Committee, senior management including the Diageo executive) and is responsible for providing quality assurance and support to understand Diageo's key risks and risk management capability, and 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.

Leadership Responsibilities

Win through Execution

• Impactful and can ‘stand your ground' where required with senior stakeholders. Quickly build strong 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 skillfully manage conflicts where these arise. Deliver thoughtful and value-adding insights on audit assignments that convince leaders to take actions that enhance Diageo's performance and or risk / control environment.
• Empowered to articulate effective and efficient risk mitigation strategies. Demonstrate thorough 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 learnings from others.
• Grow both functional and leadership capability and experience.

Purpose of Role

To provide independent assurance on the effectiveness of risk management and control procedures across the business and to highlight any particular risk and opportunity areas.

To enable Global Audit to achieve our strategic goals.

Key Accountabilities

Delivery of high quality and holistic risk management and internal audit assurance across a broad range of functions and geographies. Skilfully influence the Diageo leadership population to take additional / different action when gaps are found in the organisation'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.

Qualifications and Experience Required

Minimum 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 complex problem, the key drivers behind it, and defining an action plan to address.

Experience in use of data analysis tools.

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

People management 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 mandatory.

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

priorities.

Barriers to Success in Role

Inability to work as part of a global dynamic team or to build effective relationships.

Inability to work flexibly and respond with agility to unforeseen challenges and opportunities at short notice.

Inability to travel.