Director, IT Audit & Advisory

Job Description

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 Director, IT Audit & Advisory, focusing on enhancing the achievement of WBD's ongoing business strategies and objectives. This includes actively supporting the business with risk, process and control perspectives 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, driving project teams to conduct IT audit and advisory projects of systems and IT processes across business units that extend from understanding risks, objectives and strategies and then 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 IT process and internal control observations, recommendations, and strategies to address risks and improve the IT control environment, and opportunities to advance the organization's transformation efforts and create synergies.

In this pivotal role, you will serve as an IT process, risk, control, and IT Internal Audit (IA) subject matter expert across designated organizations, IT 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 in addition to the objectives of the businesss/area. Your responsibilities will encompass leading project team(s) in strategizing, designing, and implementing comprehensive IT audits, reviews, analyses, suggest solutions, and other related activities while confidently facilitating discussions with and presenting outcomes and developing recommendations 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 and appropriate roadmaps and action plans.

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 IT Audit Director will be asked to perform the following:

Your Role Accountabilities

Audit & Advisory Strategy for Various Businesses and IT Processes, Project Leadership, Operation and Reporting
• Oversee multiple IT audit and advisory projects with a strategic mindset, expertly distilling broad visions into detailed operational plans. Focus on delivering valuable outcomes that drive change, improve IT processes, mitigate risk, and foster synergy across IT and business processes.
• Maintain expertise as a subject matter expert in broad range of designated IT process areas, guiding audit strategies and innovations with a fresh perspective.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of top-down goals, organizational objectives and the WBD business area and develop strategies to align our IT audit strategy, focusing on value-added activities that support business strategy & transformation.
• Align technology audits with the prioritization of enterprise risks and organization objectives to assess, manage, and optimize information technology risk across a wide range of areas, including cybersecurity, IT strategy and governance, IT operations, IT regulatory and compliance, and business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Demonstrate leadership presence and influence across a broad range of stakeholders, IT internal Audit team, and external partners to drive organizational change.
• Structure high-level and ambiguous problems soundly, develop clear insights and effectively translate it to work planning and process, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Mentor direct reports and other team members to develop strong problem-solving skills.
• Build deep understanding of WBD, external competitors, leading business practices and controls processes and overall industry trending to identify potential improvement opportunities and to develop solutions with business partners.
• Regularly assess changes in the market and emerging and unaddressed IT risks to ensure robust and forward-thinking IT audit strategy.
• Expertly prepare and present insightful analyses and reports, detailing and delivering them to business unit leaders, C-suite executives, and senior leaders, including the WBD Audit Committee. Emphasize strategic foresight and value-add outcomes in each report, seamlessly integrating broader business visions into actionable IT plans that catalyze change.
• Review and improve the design and effectiveness of controls over application processes, physical and logical security, systems acquisition and development, system and network infrastructure, system architecture, organizational change, computer operations, and production support.
• Engages in effective change management processes such as presenting the need for change in a way that encourages commitment and action, developing strategies and providing recommendations and solutions to implement desired changes, while managing stakeholders' expectations.
• As needed, participate in investigations and compliance-related matters, integrating fresh approaches to navigate complex issues effectively.
• Exemplify the highest degree of trust and integrity by continually upholding the principles of the internal audit profession and the Global Internal Audit Standards
Team Leadership and Relationship Building
• Maintain leadership presence, and establish and maintain ''trusted advisor'' relationships, promoting robust collaboration with both clients and Internal Audit colleagues through innovative approaches and strategic objectivity and independence.
• Keeps leaders and peers informed about key issues, communicates effectively, and courageously influencing others to support a point of view, gain alignment, or take action.
• Lead and mentor IA direct reports and team members to deliver value on a range of audit and advisory initiatives and develop strong problem-solving skills.
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