Senior Manager, Internal Audit & Advisory

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Your New Role...

Internal Audit and Advisory strengthens WBD’s ability to create, protect, and sustain value by providing the board and management with independent, risk-based, value add, objective assurance, advice, insight, and foresight.   WBD Internal Audit’s vision is to accelerate innovation, increase efficiency and effectiveness while providing value added assurance and advisory services, while anticipating and mitigating risks. Our approach is designed to directly influence and drive change, facilitating the development of strategic relationships and bolstering the company's ability to anticipate and mitigate risks effectively.

We are seeking a dynamic and innovative Internal Audit & Advisory Senior Manager, focusing on enhancing the achievement of WBD’s ongoing transformation efforts and contributing to our business strategies and objectives. This includes actively supporting the business in ongoing transformation efforts and aiding leadership in developing and executing initiatives that foster growth, innovation, efficiency and effectiveness and a proactive control environment.

You will be responsible for developing, leading and driving audit and advisory projects across business units, processes and systems that extend from understanding risks and business objectives/strategies, developing project plans, leading plan execution (facilitation, analysis, testing etc.), to identifying process opportunities and improvement and delivering clear and detailed insights. You will play a crucial role in identification of process and internal control observations, recommendations, and strategies to address risks and improve the business process & control environment, and opportunities to advance the organization’s transformation efforts and create synergies. 

In this pivotal role, you will serve as a process, risk, internal control, and Internal Audit (IA) subject matter expert across designated organizations, business processes and stakeholders. To develop an effective internal audit project strategy and plan, you must understand the organization / process / business area’s governance, risk management, and control processes. Your responsibilities will encompass leading project team(s) in strategizing, designing, and implementing comprehensive audits, reviews, analyses and other related activities while confidently facilitating discussions with and presenting outcomes to senior management.

As a primary point of contact, you will maintain strong, productive relationships with peers and up through leadership across the organization, playing a key role in driving the success of the Stakeholder and Internal Audit teams. The successful candidate will be a leader capable of influencing change, with a sharp focus on programmatic objectives who can support business leadership in the translation of the overarching strategy into focused initiatives, and process and control capabilities.

Exceptional leadership, cross functional collaboration, and effective communication skills (both verbally and written) are crucial to navigate, lead and execute, and communicate audit & advisory projects successfully, engaging comprehensively with executives from various levels across the business. This strategic position demands an agile, proactive, and insightful leader committed to advancing business practices, strategic and critical thinking, creativity, and fostering excellence in stakeholder engagement. The Internal Audit Senior Manager will be asked to perform the following:

Your Role Accountabilities...

Audit & Advisory Strategy, Project Operation and Reporting

• Collaborate with Internal Audit leadership and key business stakeholders to develop audit strategies and plans that leverage an understanding of various WBD businesses, processes, strategies and objectives for a variety of businesses, process areas, topics and practices. This involve