Director, Internal Audit

This is a Full Time Job

Director, Internal Audit
Job Description:

We are Warner Music Group, home to a broad roster of new stars and legendary artists through a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry including Asylum, Atlantic, Big Beat, Canvasback, East West, Elektra, Erato, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Spinnin', Warner Records, Warner Classics, and Warner Music Nashville, as well as Warner Chappell Music, one of the world's leading music publishers, with a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide.
We currently have a fantastic opportunity to join our innovative and highly sought-after Internal Audit team.

Job Title: Director, Internal Audit

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 includes SOX audits, operational audits, risk management projects, and proactive involvement in strategic 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 meaningful 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 maximize 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.

Why this could be your next big break:

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, as well as participate in designing the future-state audit program to include SOX, operational, and compliance 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 skills, a strong work ethic, and the ability to influence decision making at a senior level.

Here you'll get to:
• Contribute to the design and implementation of agile internal audit processes, methodology, and ongoing process improvements
• Lead SOX audits across WMG's global companies
• Drive the timely execution of audit engagements from planning through reporting
• Update the audit schedule and manage resources as necessary based on changes in priority or senior leadership requests
• Establish the scope, objectives, and approach to audits applying a risk-based methodology that achieves timely results and high-quality audit deliverables
• 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
• Establish and maintain excellent relationships within the team and with business stakeholders
• Participate in internal audits projects in various capacities from leading and conducting SOX audits to supporting and guiding audit teams
• Review key internal audi