The Audit Director role is critical in supporting the delivery of A&A’s global Assurance Strategies and serving as a change agent of A&A’s strategic objectives.
Audit Directors provide leadership, support, and oversight to audit managers and auditors to deliver audits that are responsive to risk, fit-for-purpose, and value-add, meeting the highest level of quality standards. Audit directors build and manage strong partnering relationships with senior GSK stakeholders, often across multiple functions, business units, and geographies. They help teams navigate a complex business and risk environment and contentious audit issues, requiring strong organisational awareness, leadership, communication and influencing skills.
The Audit Director is aligned to the geographic region of Europe, Middle East, and Africa and leads audits for one or more Business Units or Functions operating within that area. In this role, the Audit Director builds and manages strong partnering relationships with GSK stakeholders and senior Auditee management, and is an integral and active member of relevant governance fora.
The Audit Director plays a key role in coaching teams to navigate a complex business and risk environment and contentious audit issues, requiring strong organisational awareness, leadership, communication and influencing skills. Regularly this requires active participation in complex audits to support the agreement of key messages and advocate on risks and controls.
In addition to Core Audits, the Audit Director may, from time to time, be required to deliver alternative assurance products (Joint Risk Review, Programme Assurance, CAPA Partnership and consulting engagements) and guide the A&A team in support of this. The Audit Director has responsibility for the quality standards of the work, its records, and the proficiency of the team.
Through the above modes of engagement, the Audit Director will contribute to assurance strategies within the Region as well as globally. These strategies provide the basis for future audit work and, in turn, assurance to the Board level Audit and Risk Committee.
Key Responsibilities
• Serve as the Audit Director within the EMEA region, focusing predominantly on delivering assurance over GSK’s principal risks including Information Protection, Crisis & Continuity Management, Financial Control & Reporting, Commercial Practices & Scientific Engagement, ABAC, and Supply Chain Continuity.
• Work with the business and Compliance stakeholders to approve audit scope and deliver audits.
• Provide quality oversight and drive accountability within teams for audits and outputs at all key stages, ensuring compliance with A&A and Institute of Internal Auditing standards.
• Ensure appropriate and timely management and escalation of significant issues including, but not limited to, anticipating and addressing obstacles in audit delivery, and significant business and compliance issues.
• Join the dots on audits to create clear and engaging insights for delivery to senior leadership. Encourage audit teams to connect assurance work to the bigger picture.
• Drive a culture of empowerment, actively leading, inspiring and developing a team to perform at their best in addition to supporting the attraction of key talent across the wider organisation.
• Support A&A budget management by efficient design of cost effective audits.
• Support the Audit Account Director and Vice President in Audit & Risk Committee (Board level) reporting by escalating relevant data and insights for the development of compelling, high-quality reports.
• Actively partner with auditees, by connecting with them on an ongoing basis to provide resources and insights that will reduce risk, leverage good practices and prevent repeat issues.
Line Management/Budgetary Responsibilities
Line Management: 6 direct reports
Closing date for applications: November 18th 2015.
*LI-GSK • CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) qualification. Good knowledge of COBIT 5.
• Experience in SAP business process consulting, SAP implementation or SAP process auditing is advantageous.
• Detailed understanding of the pharmaceutical or life sciences environment.
• Leadership skills such as coaching, mentoring, managing and inspiring.
• High proficiency in stakeholder engagement, partnership and influence.
• Ability to identify emerging trends in assurance and internal controls through scanning the internal and external business and risk environment.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate and develop solutions to complex problems.
• Strong command of English language (written and verbal). European language skills, preferred.
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