About the role
At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. During your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. That's why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. Talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
As Head of Audit, you will lead Group Audit activities and deputise for the Group Audit Director. You will lead a team of auditors and subject matter specialists (co-sourced and internal experts) to deliver risk-based audits. While partnering with the business, you will help identify the key risks, assess how these risks are managed and identify recommendations that will address the root causes of the problems to genuinely improve the risk management within the business.
You will be responsible for:
* Ownership of key functional leadership roles (Audit PMO, Data Analytics Strategy, Methodology & Continuous Improvement).
* Co-leading a 'high performance' team culture change; developing future audit leaders through investment and coaching in HIPO talent pool.
* Building relationships with business stakeholders to ensure that the key risks in each business unit are understood, key developments and change projects are monitored, and audit issues are addressed in a timely and effective manner.
* Leading the development of a dynamic and risk-based internal audit plan, taking into account internal and external risks and changes in the organisation.
* Accountability for a team of auditors delivering a programme of complex audits from planning to reporting, including execution of data analytics.
* Analysing large volumes of data from various systems and translating it into digestible information for the team, management, and stakeholders for decision-making.
* Preparing regular impactful progress updates for Executives and Audit Committee; facilitating workshops with cross-functional stakeholders to drive follow-up/conclusion of agreed actions arising from audits.
* Accountability for the delivery of high quality, impactful, and value-adding internal audit reports.
* Performing ad hoc "in-flight" reviews of ongoing change initiative projects to build a robust control framework.
* Forecasting and managing budgets effectively.
You will need:
* CIMA, ACA or ACCA qualified Accountant or IIA qualified Auditor or other suitable qualification.
* Significant internal or external audit experience including Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) experience from large, complex businesses in Retail and/or FMCG.
* Proven functional leadership/management experience.
* Proven innovation and change experience.
* Understanding of governance and compliance requirements in large and complex organisations.
* Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills including experience in delivering assurance.
* Strong influencing skills with the ability to build stakeholder relationships.
What's in it for you:
We're all about the little helps. That's why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you - both in and out of work.
* Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary.
* Car Cash Allowance.
* Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
* Private medical insurance.
* Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount.
* 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year's service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay; 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
About us:
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. #J-18808-Ljbffr