IT Control Governance Lead

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IT Control Governance Lead

About Us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function

Our Digital and Technology (D&T) team are innovators, delivering ground-breaking solutions that will help shape the future of our iconic brands. Technology touches every part of our business, from the sourcing of sustainable ingredients to marketing and development of our online platforms. We utilise data insights to build competitive advantage, supporting our people to deliver value faster.

Our D&T team includes some of the most talented software professionals in the industry. Every day, we come together to push boundaries and innovate, shaping the digital solutions of tomorrow. Whatever your passion, we’ll help you become the best you can be, creating career-defining work and delivering breakthrough thinking.

Scope

In this role, you will maintain and update IT Risks and Controls in Diageo's Technology Risk and Controls framework, ensuring it reflects internal requirements defined by Security policies and aligns with frameworks like NIST, SOX.

Role Responsibilities

Main Tasks Include

• Maintain and regularly update the IT control framework, focusing on a proportionate response to risks faced by Diageo.
• Monitor legislative or framework changes in the field of IT Audit and Security (PCAOB guidance, NIST etc.) to assess the impacts of such changes on the Diageo environment.
• Track and report control performance metrics, proactively identifying improvement areas and risks.
• Initiate, drive, or take part in security/process improvement projects to increase the maturity of the control environment.
• Consolidate ITGC/SOX-related reporting activities and validate SOX/Security compliance of third parties.
• Ensure key risks are mitigated at operating system, application, database, and network layers.
• Support internal and external IT audits to ensure smooth delivery.

Experience / skills required

Process-oriented thinking with the ability to recognize interdependencies.

• Ability to identify problems and present solutions in a structured manner.
• 4+ years of experience related to IT risk management (in audit, security, or governance roles).
• Excellent English skills, both written and spoken.
• Audit, risk management or IT governance qualifications are an advantage (e.g., CISM, CISA, CIA, CRISC).
• IS/IT degree or a Finance degree with proven IT knowledge.

Flexible Working Statement

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement

Diversity statement

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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