Global Audit and Risk Senior Manager

Job title: Global Audit and Risk Senior Manager

Contract: permanent

Location: Budapest

About the Function

Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We’re part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we’re utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future — no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we’ll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

About the 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.   

Role Responsibilities

• 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.   
• 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. 
• 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. 
• 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. 
• 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.

Experience / skills 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.
• Extensive experience in use of data analysis tools and AI 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.

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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