Senior Director, Internal Audit

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Who We Are…

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From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

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 (IA) vision is to accelerate innovation, increase efficiency and effectiveness while providing value added assurance services, advisory services, while anticipating and mitigating risks. 

As the Internal Audit Senior Director, you will be responsible for leading, developing the strategy, plan, approach and delivery for assurance and advisory efforts for the US Networks, Ad Sales & DTC businesses. The Senior Director will be responsible for managing internal and external teams and be working directly with WBD senior executives and the Audit Committee. The Senior Director will be responsible for understanding the key objectives, strategies, risks, processes and controls and developing the audit strategy for the applicable business segments and being the subject matter expert for these segments. The Senior Director will manage both internal and external resources to complete audits, assurance by design and advisory reviews and various other activities to provide analysis and advice, collaborate to drive results across the business with senior executives.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Collaborate with the EVP, Chief Audit & Risk Officer and the VP’s Internal Audit to develop the strategic audit plan for US Networks and DTC business segments.  You will work closely with executives across the company and act as a valued business partner through audit and advisory projects- assuring, advising, anticipating risk & accelerating the business forward.
• Accountable for timely strategy development, delivery and quality execution of the strategy and plan by leading and providing direction for the projects, drive impactful insights and results and influencing business stakeholders.
• Direct the preparation of key insights, analyses, reports and communications and
• present to senior executive management, and the WBD Audit Committee on specific subject matters.
• Responsible for building, managing, and developing diverse teams that have the requisite knowledge and skill sets.
• Manages internal and external personnel to carry out audits, reviews and consulting projects.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the areas of process, internal controls, risks and leading practices and for the business process areas.
• Communicate insights and foresight both verbally and in writing and work with personnel at various levels of the organization.
• Identifies and maintains leading edge knowledge, business understanding and audit techniques to improve the audit processes and the business processes in review.
• Build and coach a high performing team of highly motivated and technically skilled professionals who consistently deliver high-quality work in a challenging and fast-paced environment.

Qualifications & Experience

• 12+ years of experience successfully navigating complex, matrixed organizations in audit, assurance, accounting, consulting, or related field.
• 6+ years managing people or teams.
• Ability to leverage complex stakeholder relationships to obtain consensus and drive successful completion of projects with understanding that success is based on influence rather than direct authority.
• Deep audit, risk, process and control experience delivering insights using advanced methods of data analytics to effect organizational-wide change.
• Keen ability to quickly assess control and risk implications across people, process and technology amid rapid transformation and entity-wide change and disruption.
• Ability to effectively manage competing priorities in a complex work environment, focusing on high-value activities.  Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priori