Senior Engagement Executive (Executive Director)

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Job Summary

Play a leading role with the engagement team throughout each phase (i.e., planning, execution, and reporting) and managing a technical advisor team. With our standard engagement cadence, the individual in this role will gain broad exposure to our businesses and processes. Team members work collaboratively and independently to conduct audits across operational, financial, regulatory, and/or technology areas across the Company. Provides leadership and direction for multiple functional areas. Manages professionals at director, sr. manager, manager, and professional levels. Influences, shapes, and integrates strategy for functional area(s).

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

What You Deliver:

• Provides leadership across all aspects of the Internal Audit process including assessing risk, evaluating technical controls/operations, and partnering with COE leads to identify and evaluate issues.
• In partnership with functional leader, develops long range plan to ensure appropriate coverage of the auditable entities.
• Assists the Executive Vice President & General Auditor and the functional leader in developing solutions and presenting audit issues to senior management.
• Reviews audit reports for quality, consistency, and executive messaging.
• Assumes significant accountability for audit plan execution by managing staff during engagements of varying complexity and scope.
• Leads the design, development and maintenance of a comprehensive engagement plan.
• Provides leadership and direction for the engagement teams to ensures that fieldwork is properly conducted and completed in accordance with the audit plan, staff is supervised, work is reviewed, and follow-up work is performed, as necessary; findings are communicated to internal audit and business management.
• Analyzes and assess impact of engagement observations and identifies themes across multiple engagements/entities.
• Ensures that teams apply appropriate audit procedures to the areas reviewed to ensure that controls are tested, and all significant risks are addressed.
• Oversees and ensures audit reports and other audit documentation are developed timely and with high quality.
• Offers leadership oversight, training, review, and guidance to staff.
• Provides ongoing feedback on work completion and performance to team members and direct reports.
• Contributes to the operation and management of the department in areas such as recruiting, staffing, scheduling, budgeting, organization performance metrics, presentations to management, and training.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement to audit methodology, tools, and training.
• Supports department objectives and performs other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary. Out-of-town travel is approximately 25%.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

How You Deliver:

• Demonstrates the ability to quickly relate complex business processes, applications, data, and organizations to identify and resolve business issues.
• Stays current on changing rules and regulations (both in the industry and profession) as well as relevant business risks (e.g., current events, audit trends, emerging technologies, cyber security, etc.), and determines where appropriate to apply to engagements or to department.
• Provides leadership effectively across multiple complex engagements.
• Maintains a strong executive presence and demonstrates the ability to develop and maintain executive relationships.
• Maintains a continuous presence with clients by leading key management meetings to understand business strategies, challenges, and risks.
• Motivates engagement team leads to deliver high quality work on time.
• Exercises consistent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Exhibits willingness to tackle new areas and challenging topics.
• Demonstrates the ability to work in a complex, dynamic, diverse, and fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrates ownership for engagements and is accountable for ensuring all work is complete and/or requesting assistance as needed.
• Acts in accordance with stated internal audit and company policies and practices, and maintains the highest degree of integrity in all activities and interactions, and acts as a role model to cascade this behavior to his/her teams.

How You Partner:

• Fosters a team-oriented environment and helps with the development of a diverse and highly motivated professional leaders and staff with a passion for excellence, by providing meaningful and challenging assignments.
• Exhibits strong interpersonal skills including written and verbal communications, and an ability to collaborate with other leaders.
• Leverages audit to educate leaders on policies/procedures, best practices, government and legal requirements, and emerging company or business unit risks.
• Shows respect to other team members and clients in all interactions.
• Demonstrates a willingness to assist other team members in areas outside of direct assignments, when necessary.
• Collaborates and leads in a virtual environment to complete projects with team members in various locations. However, the employee must be available for extended hours, as needed and be willing to travel extensively, sometimes with little notice based on the needs of clients and/or business.
• Partners with internal audit team leaders (e.g., FinOps and Data) across engagement activities.
• Develops business partnerships proactively.
• Includes business partners and other risk functions in engagement activities (e.g., CISO, Legal, Human Resources, Security, and Business Assurance) as needed.
• Provides coaching, guidance, and development to engagement teams and direct reports.
• Assists engagement teams in developing their understanding of relevant business risks and trains teams on how to consider when planning and executing engagements.

How You Develop:

• Utilizes available resources and tools to expand knowledge to enhance work product.
• Exhibits a commitment to continuously self-improve by working with leadership to leverage strengths and focus on areas of development.
• Gains knowledge of advanced data analytics and cyber security concepts, and stays up to date on new and emerging technologies and risks, and applies to engagements.
• Assists team members and direct reports with furthering their own development.
• Seeks to be a business expert within the Center of Excellence and provides assurance to Company management as necessary.
• Develops an enterprise risk mindset by applying relevant business risks (e.g., current events, audit trends, emerging technologies, cyber security, etc.)

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

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Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relative Work Experience

10 Years +

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