Internal Audit, Risk and Control, Compliance Manager

British American Tobacco (Апрель 2006 - Сентябрь 2015)

Internal Audit Manager (Full)

• Planning and managing the execution of independent risk-based audits (financial, operational, compliance, environmental health & safety), including communication of audit results to Leadership Teams of the Companies in EEMEA Region; • Working closely with the Leadership Teams to assess strategic and operational business risks across the Companies of EEMEA Region, providing further assurance that the risks are addressed; • Facilitation of the Audit Committees meetings, including the preparatory work and subsequent reporting/presentation; • Managing budgeting process related to the annual audit plan and adhoc audit activities (investigations, surprise audits) and validation of it with the Head Office in London; • Support continuous development and improvement of Risk Management and Control practice in EEMEA Region; • Providing consultancy advices on different legislative topics such as US and EU Sanctions compliance, Trade Marks and Intellectual Property rights, as well as, general technical and control matters to the Leadership Team across EEMEA Region; • Managing and facilitating Internal Audit department’s development projects, i.e. leading the anti-fraud framework, including exploring new opportunities/way of using the ACL audit statistics, reinforcing the design of controls within SAP instances across EEMEA; • Managing the multinational audit teams during the audit assignments (circa 12 auditors on a project based scheme); • Monitoring and assessing the execution of audit staff fieldwork to ensure it is conducted according to the IIA standards, in professional and timely manner, monitoring the implementation of agreed action plans resulting from completed audits; • Managing and optimizing the resource allocation for successful achievement of audit plan, considering skills of the auditors and requirements of the business; • Supervising and participating in investigations and inquiries assigned to the Audit team; • Developing and coaching junior members of the audit team, audit methodology training, learning and development opportunities in both audit and the business in general; • Maintain the stakeholders management internally and externally (with external auditors) on a high level; • Sharing the advanced audit techniques to senior auditors; • Coordination the recruitment and onboarding of new hires into the audit group, which serves as a talent pipeline for the Company finance and controls departments; • Leading the preparation and further implementation of action plans resulting from a yearly exercise of Employee Satisfaction Survey for the Internal Audit function on EEMEA Regional Level.