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 build a career worth celebrating.
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!
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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.
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, 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.
Leadership Responsibilities:
- Impactful and can ‘stand your ground' where required with 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 stakeholders. 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).
- Apply root cause and data-driven analysis to support the development of impactful business insights and efficiency opportunities.
- 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.
- Grow both functional and leadership capability and experience.
Key Accountabilities:
- Delivery of high-quality internal audit assurance across a range of functions and geographies. Skillfully influence the Diageo management 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.
- Travel (approximately 25 to 30%) will be required.
Experience/Skills Required:
- CA/MBA/ACCA/CPA/CIA/Other equivalent degrees
- Minimum 5 years of work experience
- 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
- A collaborative approach and stakeholder influencing skills
- Strong project management 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 prioritise, move with urgency and overcome challenges/obstacles
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 crafting 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 encouraged 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, mentalities, 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.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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