Director, Internal Audit

Warner Music Group•New York, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future. Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans. Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises. WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent. A little bit about our team: The Warner Music Group Internal Audit vision is to provide high quality assurance and advisory services in a dynamic, innovative, and impactful way. Our work primarily includes SOX audits, as well as risk management projects and proactive involvement in critical initiatives for the business such as major system implementations, process transformation, and acquisitions. The Internal Audit department partners with the business to focus on the most important risks and issues facing the organization and delivers results that will make the biggest positive impact. We strive to be valuable business advisors that provide important insights and solutions, not just information and recommendations. We continuously look for ways to improve our audit and risk management processes and leverage technology to improve our impact. Our success is measured by the amount of internal control improvement, risk mitigation and overall positive change that we drive across the organization. Your role: We are seeking an Internal Audit Director to drive the execution of our audit services, with a focus on SOX projects adhering to control standards required for a public company. In this role, you will guide our internal and co-sourced audit teams in providing objective assurance and advisory services that mitigate risk and improve controls and compliance across our global organization. Additionally, you will provide guidance and support the business with respect to global finance transformation initiatives, with a focus on the impact to processes, risks, controls, and how we complete our audits. The Director, Internal Audit will report to the Vice President, Internal Audit and will play a key role in conducting risk assessments and supporting the delivery and execution of engagements aligned with the audit plan. This role requires a high-caliber individual with extensive accounting, auditing, and SOX experience in companies of similar size and complexity. The ideal candidate will possess excellent interpersonal and project management skills, a strong work ethic, and the ability to influence decision making at a senior level.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
9+ years of overall experience in some combination of Big 4 public accounting and/or internal audit
A minimum of 5 years of experience managing and developing teams
Experience with SAP S/4 HANA, HFM, and the Google suite of application
Licensed CPA
Demonstrate a proficient understanding of US GAAP, COSO framework, Sarbanes-Oxley, IIA PPF, and leading business practices
Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, including listening, verbal, written, and presentation, with the ability to communicate effectively within various levels of the company and senior level management
Display a strong technical skillset regarding internal control topics, including business process controls, IT automated controls, and key reports
Exhibit strong project management and organization skills, including the ability to lead the team, multi-task, and prioritize various workstreams simultaneously
Deliver exceptional customer service, including the ability to manage differing perspectives and influence positive outcomes
Display strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and resolve complex issues
Demonstrate attention to detail, tolerance for uncertainty, and ability to be agile and adaptable
Exhibit the ability to thrive in a creative, dynamic, fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects and resources effectively
Prove your ability to manage teams in a matrixed reporting environment, shifting between the role of an individual contributor, project manager, and thought leader
Translate short-term and long-term department goals into team and individual performance goals
Show your ability to influence, lead and motivate team members
Display a high standard of ethics and professionalism
Travel domestically and internationally if required

Responsibilities

Contribute to the design and implementation of agile internal audit processes, methodology, and ongoing process improvements
Lead internal audit projects across WMG’s global companies, providing support and guidance to audit teams on these engagements
Establish the scope, objectives, and approach to audits, applying a risk-based methodology that achieves timely results and high-quality audit deliverables
Drive the timely execution of audit engagements from planning through reporting
Review key internal audit workpapers, including planning documents, control testing, and audit reports, to ensure clear identification of risks and issues
Critically evaluate audit issues identified including assessment of the issue/root cause and financial statement impact
Communicate audit findings in a timely and collaborate with process owners to develop creative, yet practical, recommendations to remediate control deficiencies
Lead the follow-up and reporting of internal audit findings until deficiencies are remediated
Liaise with business and finance leadership and communicate status of key projects and initiatives, and audit results
Oversee and lead special projects and other tasks as assigned by the Vice President, Internal Audit
Update the audit schedule and manage resources as necessary based on changes in priority or senior leadership requests
Establish and maintain excellent relationships within the team and with business stakeholders
Educate business stakeholders on control expectations and best practices for quality-driven and sustainable SOX results for a public company
Collaborate with the business to drive actions that are pragmatic and achievable
Identify themes, trends, and emerging risks for escalation and communication to senior leadership
Manage internal audit staff development, training, and career planning
Be a change agent to lead and effect desired change throughout the organization