Internal Audit Opportunities

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role...

We're excited to announce that we're looking for people who will help us tell the widest range of stories to impact the world in the best possible ways.

In Internal Audit at Warner Bros. Discovery, we pride ourselves in helping our partners across the business create a competitive advantage and enhance operational excellence. Our teams work across the global organization, to understand business strategies, objectives, processes and controls, while being trusted business advisors. Internal Audit and Advisory strengthens WBD’s ability to create, protect, and sustain value by providing the board and management with independent, risk-based, value add, objective assurance, advice, insight, and foresight. Internal Audit’s vision is to accelerate innovation, increase efficiency and effectiveness while providing value added assurance and advisory services, while anticipating and mitigating risks.

Our Internal Audit teams take a risk-based value-add approach to audits to ensure our partners and leaders have the right processes and control in place to equip them to achieve their objectives. If you have a strong interest in media, internal audit, and/or analytics or a desire to become an expert in the industry, come join one of the most well-known brands in the industry.

We are seeking talented Internal Audit professionals who have the motivation and curiosity to explore new solutions and help improve performance.  We need strategic thinkers with intellectual curiosity.  Colleagues whose outstanding work ethic and strong attention to detail will help us deliver the best support we can to our businesses.  You might be our next teammate in one of these areas:

Your Role Accountabilities…

Corporate, Finance and core enabling functions– Apply your experience with financial, operational, audit and advisory projects for teams across SOX, Legal, People & Culture, Business Assurance, Tax, Investigations, ESG, Corporate Accounting, and Security.  Evaluate processes and control opportunities and efficiencies in our Global Business Operations and Corporate sector in a world of transformation across Accounting & Financial Reporting, Shared Services, WBD centers of excellence, Procurement, Treasury & Real Estate, Games, Chief Revenue, Strategy, International, Marketing, Investor Relations, Third Party.

Network & Direct to Consumer Segments, Internal Audit Innovation and Operational Excellence– Support the execution of WBD’s vision and strategy for Networks and the Direct-to-Consumer business and DTC across Direct-to-Consumer, Linear Ad Sales, Digital Ad Sales, CNN, Professional Standards & Practices, Innovation, Analytics, ERM.

Studios – Dive into the excitement and complexities of the production world through our Production Audit Program which covers all aspects of our production and studio operations, Content, and Participation & Residuals.

Technology – Support our IT internal audit technology operations, and software development, learning and applying the latest and greatest in technology solutions across WBD with Information Technology, IT Transformation & Integration, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, System Implementations (S4, Workday).

The Skills – Manager, Audit & Advisory

• 7+ years of accounting, auditing, consulting, finance, IT operations or other relevant business experience
• Project Plan Engagement & Execution
• Internal Business Partnering & Communication
• Plan Engagements
• Advanced business process and control skills, critical thinking and analytical skills
• Oversee the execution of audit and advisory projects to ensure the effective planning, execution, and review of audit and advisory projects, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outcomes.
• Lead projects and deliver reports that provide strategic and actionable insights to influence business stakeholders to improve business processes risks & controls, applying innovative thinking and autonomy in insight development, root cause identification and problem-solving.
• Develop expertise as a subject matter expert in designated business process areas, guiding audit strategies and innovations with a fresh perspective.
• Establish and maintain "trusted advisor" relationships, promoting robust collaboration with both clients and Internal Audit colleagues through innovative approaches and strategic objectivity and independence.
• Collaborate with Internal Audit leadership and key business stakeholders to develop audit strategies and plans that leverage an understanding of various WBD businesses to proactively identify risks, controls and processes across the businesses. 
• Keeps leaders and peers informed about key issues, communicates effectively, and courageously influencing others to support a point of view, gain alignment, or take action
• Actively engage in the recruitment, training, mentoring, and coaching of diverse teams and staff.

The Skills – Director, Audit & Advisory

• 10+ years of accounting, auditing, consulting, finance, IT, operations or other relevant business experience
• Develop expertise as a subject matter expert in designated business process areas, guiding audit strategies and innovations with a fresh perspective.
• Responsible for understanding strategy, goals and business objectives to develop audit and risk strategy development to for designated businesses, business process areas and
• Lead, develop, determine key risks and areas of focus and priority given business. Quality reviewer of IA deliverables and communications.
• Drives sustainable value, generating results through a wide range of projects including control assessment, PMO, and innovation and automation activities. This includes assurance, advisory, analytics, trending of data, analytics strategy for audit, assurance, and advisory projects.  
• Develop strong relationships and business partnering across the business to drive key business initiatives.
• Develop and drive the preparation of key insights, analysis, reports, and communications and present to executive committees, senior leaders, and as required the WBD Audit Committee on specific subject matters.
• Support the other Internal Audit teams, including the Operations and Innovation, to increase their efficiency and performance.
• Support the SVP of Internal Audit on other priorities and projects.
• Responsible for building, managing, and developing diverse teams that have the requisite knowledge and skill sets.

Skills For All Levels:

• Bachelor's or MBA or degree in accounting, IT, finance, business or related experience.
• Professional audit certifications preferred (CPA, CIA, CISA, CRMA or other professional quals. etc.).
• Ability to adapt and be agile amongst a changing environment; able to translate ambiguous problems into solutions
• Superior critical thinking and analytical skills
• Excellent written and oral communications and presentation skills
• Experience with large enterprise systems like SAP
• Proven team player that creates connection by painting a compelling picture of vision and strategy and how processes and controls contribute to their achievement
• Strong sense of curiosity that sparks communication, collaboration, and innovation
• Ability to see ahead and focus on the future
• Demonstrates accountability, good judgment, negotiation, leadership and project management skills
• Ability to act courageously while addressing conflict and continuously challenging the status quo
• A service-oriented mindset with outstanding interpersonal skills
• Collaborate across cross-functional stakeholder teams, managing opportunities and challenges that improve processes and help stakeholders become more process and control savvy

Locations:

• Los Angeles, CA; Atlanta, GA; New York, NY; Knoxville, TN

This is not a posting for an open role but rather to proactively identify candidates for future openings.  If you wish to join our talent network, please submit your resume to this posting.  A recruiter will contact you to discuss your qualifications and interest in Warner Bros. Discovery.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/  along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.