Lead Auditor

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Caltrate, Centrum, Fenbid, Sensodyne, Contac and Voltaren – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

This is an exciting time to join us to be part of something special. Are you energised by an Internal Audit role that allows you to inspire meaningful actions to help shape a global company's future? If so, this role could be an exciting opportunity for you.

The Internal Audit team in Haleon is responsible for providing independent and objective assurance to the Audit & Risk Committee and Senior Management. We collaborate and partner with our business stakeholders on the shared goal of reducing risk to Haleon. We are in the unique position to view across the Haleon global enterprise, connecting insights and sharing learnings in the risk space through our assurance and advisory product portfolio.

As a Senior Auditor, you will be part of a Global team based in APAC, leading and performing efficient and effective assurance and advisory reviews in APAC region and across the Global. The ideal candidate is an experienced Audit professional aspiring to grow in their career as a leader in the Audit field. This position will be based in Shanghai.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

Responsibilities:

• Ability to lead and deliver timely and meaningful assurance and advisory engagements with minimum supervision. The engagements are delivered in line with our quality standards, including not only identifying gaps in control and risk management, but also actively sharing good practices and insights across Haleon.
• Demonstrate strong stakeholder engagement capabilities, both in verbal communication, formal presentation, and in writing.  Proactively engage and collaborate with stakeholders, able to build trusted relationship during the life cycle of engagements and outside of engagements.
• Lead initiatives to support Audit Leadership team for stakeholder management, risk insights sharing and contribute knowledge/insights for audit strategy.
• Identify and lead continuous improvement initiatives and projects to promote excellence and drive efficiencies in ways of working.
• Demonstrate strong leadership capabilities and able to lead multi-cultural teams, exhibit strong accountability to drive excellence while creating a vibrant, values-based work environment.
• Lead by example, by challenging the status quo, adopting a flexible approach to work, rebalancing priorities for self and team where necessary and solving problems creatively.
• Proactively coach and mentor peers and junior team members during and outside engagements; actively giving and receiving feedback to develop self and others. Demonstrate a growth mindset, proactively seeking opportunities to grow self and others.

Requirements:

• At least 12 to 15 years prior experience, ideally with combined experience in a Big4 firm and Finance/Commercial experience in FMCG or Healthcare industry.
• Travel is required for this role (25% to 30%).
• Excellent communication and writing skills in both English and Chinese are required, as this role will liaise and interact with stakeholders in China, wider APAC and global functions.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and collaborate for impact
• Strong data analytic skills

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.

Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Important note to candidates:
 
The Haleon recruitment team will only contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch. 

Accommodation Requests

If you require a reasonable accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific accommodations you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable accommodations to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.