Senior Auditor, Internal Audit

at  Boots

Summary
Job Reference: 241653BR
Job Reference: 2 4 1 6 5 3 B R
Nottingham Support Office
Permanent
37.5 Hours

WHO WE ARE

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) is an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader, with more than 12,500 locations across the U.S., Europe and Latin America through our portfolio of consumer brands: Walgreens, Boots, Duane Reade, No7 Beauty Company and Benavides. We are reimagining local healthcare and wellbeing as part of our purpose – to create more joyful lives through better health.
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, with a workplace environment that supports the health and wellbeing of our team members so that everyone feels supported, respected and celebrated for being their authentic selves.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Auditor to join our Global Internal Audit & Controls team in Nottingham. You will operate as part of our independent and objective team to provide assurance to the WBA Board, Audit Committee and other key stakeholders on the effectiveness of governance, risk management and internal controls, and make recommendations to support their improvement.
The role of Senior Auditor exists to deliver assigned scope areas of audits from the Audit Plan to time, cost and quality. Audits typically review a specific business area, function or program and normally cover governance, financial, operational and IT processes and controls.
As our new Senior Auditor, you will work in our International Segment. This covers a diverse range of businesses and activities across WBA’s interests outside of the US including Boots businesses in the UK, Thailand and franchises, the No7 Beauty Company, pharmaceutical wholesale activities in Germany and several equity method investments.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR AUDITOR ROLE INCLUDE TO:

• Audit a range of operational, financial and IT processes and controls; completing assigned audit activities to time and quality under the direction of team members, and in accordance with the Internal Audit Methodology. The Senior Auditor will be involved in all stages of the audit lifecycle, being: Planning; Fieldwork; Reporting and Follow Up.
• Utilise a range of audit techniques including data analysis tools and procedures; adapting approaches to test processes effectively and efficiency.
• Produce succinct and audit findings for inclusion in the fieldwork update meetings, and the same with appropriate quality, balance and context when drafting reports which summarise audit issues for review by the Audit Manager.
• Review the completion and quality of work performed by other team members to ensure conclusions reached are supported, and that controls in respect of identified risks have been appropriately tested.
• Develop and agree actions which are adequate, appropriate and proportionate to remediate the risk; requiring skills in persuasion, negotiation and relationship management. Support the tracking of the completion of these to rectify audit issues identified in the audit reports.
• Work on audits across WBA spanning several countries
• Stay current with key changes, understand the implications for risk and control, and reflect these in your work.