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Reporting to the Professional Practices and Corporate Functions Internal Audit (IA) Director. Responsible for leading IA assurance and advisory work across Finance, HR, OGC (i.e. Risk, Compliance, Legal and Privacy) and Operations functions. The role will also support professional practice activities including preparation for the new Global IIA Standards, the incoming CIIA Code in the UK and the EQA, and ongoing strategy work relating to methodology.

The Role

• Manage relationships with Corporate Functions stakeholders and partner with them to provide them with relevant IA assurance and advisory work.

• Manage a portfolio of audits and lead a team of managers and senior auditors in the completion of assurance, advisory and other related work in their assigned area.

• Motivate and develop the managers and senior auditors to support the development of their technical and soft skills during the audit work. Ability to support their team through change.

• Collaborates with the relevant IA directors, the wider IA team and our co-source partners to effectively govern our SOX management testing programme. Continuously seeks ways to improve and create efficiencies for SOX testing.

• Manage the efficient preparation of IA deliverables to key governance committees and senior leadership meetings, ensuring reports are timely, accurate, well-written, focused on what matters and impactful.

• Trusted partner with the IA leadership and teams, challenging respectfully and constructively, and influencing the audit team in the delivery of quality audit work. Ability to lead through change and role model successful change management.

• Collaborates with the Professional Practices team and relevant IA directors to maintain and enhance the IA Methodology, including regularly assessing and enhancing methodology and processes to meet the standards set by the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and regulatory requirements and expectations.

• Partners with HR and other relevant Corporate functions to improve training programme for the department based on talent need. Identifies competency and skills gaps across IA, identifies and prioritises training needs and works with HR to deliver key training to upskill IA colleagues and support high quality audit delivery.

• Collaborates with other WTW Control Functions on aligned assurance efforts to improve the maturity of WTW’s Risk Management understanding and practices.

• Supports the quality assurance and improvement program to confirm audit activities are executed efficiently and in accordance with the audit methodology, identifying best practices and making recommendations and influencing IA leadership to continuously enhance the audit process.

The Requirements

• Extensive experience in Internal Audit, ideally within professional practices and corporate functions.

• Sound awareness of risks and controls relating to Finance, SOX, Operations and OGC, and some knowledge of HR associated risks and controls.

• A role model who leads, motivates and develops themselves, following the WTW values, and successfully partners with assigned stakeholders and auditees. Successfully influences IA leaders and colleagues to deliver in line with department processes and methodology.

• Strong communication skills with the ability and track record of providing proactive, clear, timely and concise communication with stakeholders (via committee reporting) and IA, that is impactful and relevant.

• Builds strong relationships with assigned stakeholders, understands their priorities and is able to confidently discuss key risks and controls in their assigned area.

• Proactively partners with IA Directors to identify key opportunities and work with them to successfully identify and resolve issues. Influence adherence to department processes, methodology and relevant KPIs and other performance measures.

• Is knowledgeable of modern audit techniques, new approaches, new technology and proactively assesses and proposes improvement opportunities to IA leadership. Trials new ways of working and prioritises implementing enhanced and innovative internal audit methods and business relationship approaches.

• Continuously improves IA methodology and through quality reviews, identifies areas for improvement and works with the wider IA team to implement changes to increase audit quality and quality of audit output (e.g. reports).

Equal Opportunity Employer

At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity.