Philip Morris International Hiring for Audit Director at Dubai Full Time

Location

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Details

Contract

Full-Time

Department

Finance

Openings

1

Job ID

56013017
Share Audit Director Purpose of the Job With PMI’s journey towards a smoke-free future and a consumer-centric organization, the company faces new opportunities and risks. To safeguard the company’s business objectives, ensure its delivery against strategic opportunities, and protect the company against emerging uncertainties, a highly professional and industry-leading risk management and assurance gathering practice is required. The purpose of the Risk & Assurance function within PMI is to provide independent, objective assurance and risk consulting services designed to add value and improve PMI’s operations, with the mission to enhance and protect organizational value by providing risk-based and objective assurance, advice, and insight, through a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of governance, risk management, and control processes, in order to help PMI accomplish its objectives. The Audit Director is responsible for leading and coordinating: • the assurance gathering activities (i.e. internal audits, RCSA re-performance, fit-gaps assessments, desktop reviews) at a global level, covering markets, regions, PM Business Solutions/CoE locations, and Global Functions; • the transformational activities within its scope of coverage with the aim to mature and enhance the company’s risk management and internal controls practices, aiming towards an efficient and lean risk management organization, which continuously drives to establish an industry leading example. Principal Accountabilities The Audit Director is responsible to achieve both transformation and ‘regular’ assurance gathering objectives within key areas of accountability. These are: Accountability 1: Lead the assurance gathering activities over a. the appropriateness, adequacy, and executional effectiveness of risk responses implemented by management, and b. compliance with internal Policies & Procedures and internal controls as defined by management for the operational effectiveness of day-to-day operations, through independent, objective assurance services in the form of internal audits, RCSA re-performance, fit-gap assessments and desktop reviews, at all levels/geographies of the organization, as per the audit plan approved by the Audit Committee. Accountability 2: Ensure that all assurance gathering activities are performed according to the internal auditing guidelines, The IIA and other industry standards in order to provide the necessary assurance commensurate to the risks in scope. Accountability 3: Motivate and encourage the team of assurance / audit professionals to support the gathering of risk observations for benefit of corporate-wide risk program efforts under the direction of ERM. Accountability 4: Manage senior stakeholders across the company by preparing and communicating easy-to-understand yet impactful risk management and internal controls related insights, in the form internal audit/fit-gap assessment reports. In addition to these main accountabilities the Audit Director possess expert knowledge and experience in governance, risk management, internal controls, and general assurance provisioning activities, and is supporting the Global Head of Assurance for driving change and is a leading contributor in achieving continuous improvement within the function. The Audit Director communicates key issues to critical stakeholders (primarily at Global Process Owner, VP or SMT -1/-2 levels), engages productively with stakeholders at all levels within the organization and has the courage to ‘step up’ and provide full and frank information and challenge assumptions while avoiding surprises. The Audit Director manages and (further) develops a high performing team composed of direct (Senior Manager level) reports and indirect (Manager level) reports based across the organization and in various regions. He / she identifies professional ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skill gaps within his/her team, by coaching, mentoring and providing training opportunities to ‘upskill’ the team and manage the overall team’s and individuals’ performance. The Audit Director is providing the Global Head of Assurance with all necessary professional and organizational insights, expertise, and experience to drive the value add of risk management activities to the business rather than solely delivering ‘compliance style’ review activities (i.e. in a policing capacity). The position demands strong personal character and integrity along with commercial judgement, global and business acumen. The Audit Director collaborates intensively with (1) the other assurance functions being Information Security & Data Privacy, Ethics & Compliance and (2) relevant PMI Global Process Owners in his/her mission to continuously drive risk awareness and controls design efficiency and effectiveness. Skills and Competencies: Education • University degree (MSc) level education (e.g. Economics, Informatics, etc.) • Optional ‘post university’ professional certification / education – examples: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Executive Master Internal/Operational Auditor (EMIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Governance Risk Compliance Professional (GRCP) Certification, etc. Work Experience • 12+ years of experience in (Enterprise) Risk Management, Internal Controls, Internal Audit, or a combination. • Relevant experience in: o ‘Big Four’ and/or other public accounting / audit / consulting o Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMGC) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) o Digitization and transformation projects o Multi-year international / global assignments Other skills As part of the Risk & Assurance leadership team, the Audit Director is required to possess not only the ‘hard’ skills and experienced outlined this job description, but also has a proved track record when it comes to: • People management, recruiting development and mentoring skills (i.e. the latter comprising of taking team members along a transformational journey, translating strategy into operational reality at an individual team member level, identifying and addressing people challenges, etc.); • Stakeholder management beyond the directly managed teams, including advocating and explaining the function’s purpose and added value to senior management and the Audit Committee; • Project management skills to drive, structure, oversee large scale transformational programs including organizational change management Beyond these skills, the Audit Director possesses fluent written and verbal English business professional language skills and is able to present with impact, clarity by leveraging from materials prepared within the default suite of office tools (Microsoft Office Suite, including PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, Word, Excel, etc.).

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