Audit Manager

GSK; North East; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking an Audit Manager or Auditor to deliver objective assurance, assessing risk and internal controls across R&D activities including Research Practices, Patient Safety and Scientific Patient Engagement. The role travels about 25% of the time and involves leading audits globally with a multinational team.

Candidates should have 5+ years of R&D or auditing experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders while upholding the Internal Controls Framework.

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of R&D related business activities and related risk, especially Research Practices, Patient Safety and Scientific Patient Engagement.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and deliver within timelines.
• Strong collaboration, partnership and influencing skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• 5+ years of experience in R&D or auditing.

Responsibilities

• Engage auditees and stakeholders to inspire trust and mutual understanding.
• Deliver timely audit outputs aligned with Core Audit Process, highlighting gaps and best practices.
• Provide meaningful insights and context to support action.
• Connect stakeholders to insights and resources for risk understanding and control framework.
• Anticipate obstacles to audit delivery and manage risk reduction; escalate as needed.
• Lead by example, foster a values-based environment, and mentor peers.

Skills

Audit Internal Controls

Audit Risk Assessments

Business Compliance

Digital Fluency

Industry Knowledge

Influencing Without Authority

Insight Generation

ISA Standards

Stakeholder Management

Tactical Questioning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline

Job description

As an Audit Manager or Auditor, your role will be to deliver objective and insightful assurance that inspires meaningful action in reducing risk to GSK. This role is critical to understanding the current state of risk management, giving credit for good practices, identifying issues, understanding root cause, and providing insight to mobilize the organization to improve. The role serves as an ambassador of risk management and the Internal Controls Framework (ICF); fostering openness and trust and connecting individuals to resources that will help them reduce risk.

Our Audit Managers and Auditors perform and lead audits across the activities that deliver key activities across Research and Development, while mitigating risk, specifically: Research Practices, Patient Safety and Scientific Patient Engagement. While this activity is primarily focused in R&D, the risks assessed may also include assurance work within commercial businesses. The scope of our work is global, working within a multinational team. Travel is required for this role for about 25% of your time (12 weeks per year), however; the requirement to travel is assessed on an audit-by-audit basis.

In this role you will

• Engage auditees and other business stakeholders in a way that inspires and builds trust, mutual understanding, and respect.

• Deliver timely and meaningful audit outputs in alignment with the Core Audit Process (or other assurance products as required), providing a holistic view of risk management in language the business understands. This includes not only identifying gaps in control and risk management, but also good practices and insights to be shared and leveraged more broadly across GSK.

• Deliver meaningful insights to the business, and appropriate context to support action.

• Connect auditees and other business stakeholders to insights and resources that will deepen their understanding of risk and the internal control framework.

• Anticipate and effectively manage potential obstacles to audit delivery and risk reduction; ensure timely escalation. Demonstrate a flexible approach to work, rebalancing priorities where necessary and solving problems creatively.

• Lead by example to challenge the status quo and create a vibrant, values-based work environment. Develop self and others through giving and receiving feedback to promote excellence and continuous improvement. Engage in peer-to-peer coaching, teaching, and mentoring.

Basic Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge and understanding of certain R&D related business activities, and related risk; Research Practices, Patient Safety and/or Scientific Patient Engagement. Ideally your experience should be gained from functional roles in the business

• Proven track record of managing complex projects and/or initiatives including planning, organizing, managing people and delivering within agreed timelines.

• Collaboration, partnership and influencing skills.

• Problem solving, analytical and critical thinking skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline (e.g., medical or allied health, science, life sciences, pharmacy)

• 5+ years of experience in R&D or auditing experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in or with IT/Tech, data analytics

• Second foreign language

• Prior monitoring, quality management or audit experience

Note:

Please be aware that we could offer either a grade 6 Audit Manager role or a grade 7 Auditor role depending on your experience and skills.

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Skills

Audit Internal Controls, Audit Risk Assessments, Business Compliance, Digital Fluency, Industry Knowledge, Influencing Without Authority, Insight Generation, International Standards on Auditing (ISA), Stakeholder Management, Tactical Questioning

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