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Senior Corporate Auditor
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London, , United Kingdom
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Role - Senior Corporate Auditor
Key highlights
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Corporate Audit Department at Company in London; home of The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times.
The Corporate Audit Department has internal audit responsibility for News Corp entities based in the UK and Ireland including Company, Wireless Group, HarperCollins, Unruly, Dow Jones and Storyful. We also assist the global teams in performing European reviews of their business units where appropriate.
You will perform reviews on key processes and business units, complete special projects, participate in cross-functional project teams for system implementations and present findings to senior management.
The London team report to the Vice President, Corporate Audit of News Corp in New York. News Corp has internal audit teams in three locations: New York, London and Sydney.
The role involves some travel, primarily in the UK, although there may be the opportunity for occasional travel to other worldwide locations.
Responsibilities:
• The primary responsibility is to plan and perform business (financial and operational control) audits across the News Corp businesses and to report findings to Management.
• The role includes exposure to a broad range of financial and operational processes across the companies within the team’s remit. Auditors are required to understand and document these processes, analyse associated risks and their impact, and design and perform tests of control as well as analysis of relevant data. Practical solutions should be sought for issues identified by applying business awareness and knowledge.
• Other responsibilities include:
◦ Involvement in special projects such as due diligence assignments and fraud investigations
◦ Participation in cross functional project teams for system implementations
◦ Provision of assistance and support to the business with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
◦ Participation in the development of the annual risk assessment process and audit plan
◦ Development of working relationships with Management and other key individuals within the business functions
Requirements:
Knowledge & Experience:
• Must be a fully qualified accountant with an audit background and post qualification experience.
• Audit experience on commercial clients, including managing, planning and conducting audits and preparing audit reports to a high standard.
• Thorough understanding of audit techniques, internal controls and experience of controls based auditing approaches.
• Confident excel user with experience of using functions such as LOOKUP, IF etc to interpret and analyse data sets.
• Strong analytical and interpretation skills when assessing business processes and business data.
• Understanding or experience of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 404.
• IT audit experience would be an advantage, as would exposure to data analytic tools such as Tableau.
• Specific media industry experience would be an advantage.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Computer literacy:
◦ Word, Excel, PowerPoint – essential
◦ Visio, ACL, Tableau and SAP - desirable
Personal attributes:
• Interest / experience in the media industry
• Flexible and able to adapt to a variety of roles and projects and changing demands
• Ability to manage multiple projects and conflicting priorities
• Ability to work alone or as part of a team, depending on project
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships at all levels, including key business stakeholders
• Ability to present information clearly and concisely
• Willingness to travel, sometimes at short notice
• Eligible to work in the UK
Qualifications:
• Fully qualified accountant; ACA/ACCA or equivalent
• Minimum one to two years post-qualified experience
If you want to work for one of the world's most exciting, challenging and creative media organisations then Company is the place to build your career.
About Us,
Company is a great company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are a company which has journalism at its very heart. Our newspapers and associated websites are some of the most powerful media brands in the English speaking world, reaching 30 million people each week. They are very different products with different values and different strengths, but all are united by a commitment to independent journalism that connects with our customers.
Company is a company which thrives on pace. Our people stretch themselves on a daily basis, challenging the status quo to produce the best service possible to our readers and customers. We embrace creativity and initiative and we have some of the most talented people in the industry.
If you want to work for one of the world's most exciting, challenging and creative media organisations then Company is the place to build your career.