Sr. Manager, IT Internal Audit & Advisory

Job Description

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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 Senior Manager, IT Audit & Advisory, 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 and innovation.

You will be responsible for conducting IT audit and advisory projects that extend from 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 a process, risk, internal control, and IT Internal Audit (IA) subject matter expert across designated IT 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 IT 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 Senior Manager, IT Audit will be asked to perform the following:

Your Role Accountabilities...

Audit & Advisory Strategy, Project Operation and Reporting
• Skillfully lead 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 business processes.
• Develop expertise as a subject matter expert in 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 businesses to build project plans that align with 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 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.
• 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 audit plans that catalyze change.
• Assess 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
• Manage a team of technical auditors (both internal and external) to oversee audit and advisory activities of key systems and applications across the organization, performing risk and data analysis, delivering high-quality audit reports, and communicating to senior leaders on results and corrective actions.
• 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.
• Develop 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.
• Advance the IA organization by leading initiatives to enhance overall team efficiency and performance through analytics, agile approaches, Artificial intelligence, and other efforts.
• Support the Internal Audit organization in advancing innovation and operations by leading initiatives to enhance overall team efficiency and performance through analytics, agile approaches, Artificial intelligence, and other efforts.
• Mentor other team members to develop strong problem-solving skills.

Strategic and Technical Responsibilities
• Plan and execute concurrent IT and integrated audits, including reviews in areas of cybersecurity, system controls, system development and implementation, technology infrastructure, and specialized or emerging techno

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