What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager Internal Audit-IT position at Walgreens Boots Alliance?
Job Summary
Responsible for managing teams of IT Auditors to perform in-depth, complex IT audits simultaneously. Provides guidance to IT auditors ensuring that objectives and timelines are met. Evaluates both the design and effectiveness of internal controls and evaluates management's implementation of controls. Assesses recommendations for improvements in internal controls considering the costs and benefits of recommendations. Communicates recommendations to operating and senior management. Strengthens internal controls and identifies and manages risks.
Job Responsibilities
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations, and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni-channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients’ care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.
The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits More Company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com
Responsible for managing teams of IT Auditors to perform in-depth, complex IT audits simultaneously. Provides guidance to IT auditors ensuring that objectives and timelines are met. Evaluates both the design and effectiveness of internal controls and evaluates management's implementation of controls. Assesses recommendations for improvements in internal controls considering the costs and benefits of recommendations. Communicates recommendations to operating and senior management. Strengthens internal controls and identifies and manages risks.
Job Responsibilities
- Plans, organizes, and implements audit programs. Simultaneously performs a wide variety of complex operational audits through the application of Company and professionally accepted auditing standards and accounting policies and procedures. Carries out the annual audit plan. Assists in developing this plan via a risk assessment exercise and mapping of ERM risks. Adjusts audit programs as needed.
- Ensures the quality of audit reports and other deliverables including planning documents, audit field work, and audit reporting. Ensures these practices and other administrative practices are consistent with established professional standards, company policies and procedures, and department objectives.
- Defines and utilizes audit techniques to document and determine the effectiveness of internal controls (i.e. interviews, observing, flow charting, compliance and substantive testing, and data analytics).
- Develops and fosters a cross-functional team approach, providing audit management support to all levels of the business team.
- Presents audit findings effectively to business division management and Senior Management. Assists and mentors audit teams with verbal and written communications. Monitors and reports to Senior Management regarding the disposition of the audit results (findings and recommendations); evaluates whether the corrective action taken by management is sufficient to resolve the issues that have been raised.
- Improves the efficiency and effectiveness of operations within the department. This includes eliminating non-value-added activities, initiating and implementing improvement efforts, and seeking out new value added opportunities.
- Leads teams independently while supervising the auditing procedures of the Auditor(s) assigned to project and reviews working papers and files for accuracy and completeness. Manages multiple complex audit projects as a project leader. Identifies developmental needs of members assigned to project teams and develops suggestions to address those needs. Acts as mentor to team members on projects and provides on the job training. Schedules work, assigns responsibility, and delegates authority for assigned projects.
- Demonstrates a commitment to core values.
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations, and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni-channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients’ care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.
The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits More Company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree and at least 2 years of experience in accounting, finance, business management, information technology or auditing OR a High School Diploma/GED and at least 5 years of experience in accounting, finance, business management, information technology or auditing.
- Experience in analyzing and assessing risk in business or system processes, evaluating internal controls and developing recommendations.
- Experience articulating and communicating information and ideas to company management verbally and in multiple written styles (persuasive, informative, narrative) in order to.
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
- At least 1 year of cross-functional team leadership experience.
- Willing to travel up to 30% of the time for business purposes (domestically and/or internationally)
