The internal audit function is a hot mess - Senior Auditor AbbVie Employee Review

1.0
18 May 2024
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Pros

Free coffee, travel (helps you make good hotel and airline points), and okay pay & benefits

Cons

Management should take full ownership of their roles and responsibilities. This includes understanding how to audit and work effectively with the team. Management spends their time on meetings with other functions leads to discuss org risks but no action is taken, such a waste of time. There’s a massive gap in efforts and Directors seem to be so lazy. There should be an equitable distribution of effort across all levels on the team. Senior auditors and ADs should not be the only ones carrying the workload. Directors are incompetent and don’t know how to balance their time between meetings and hands-on involvement with the team. Management lacks leadership and ability to manage and maintain positive relationships with team members. Decisions on what to audit are based on what we are told by others within the org and not our independent assessment. Management doesn’t seem to have an idea why there are audits listed on the audit plan. The seniors have to always go through a scoping exercise to educate management and not vice verse. The IA’s culture is getting stressful and overwhelming, this is causing anxiety and burnout amongst the team. People either stope caring much and do the bare minimum or think to leave. There’s also a lot of drama on the team and people compete against each other.

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5.0
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Cons

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1.0
3 Jul 2026
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Pros

Big Pharma Name Recognition: Having Allergan/AbbVie on your resume provides industry visibility.

Cons

Extreme Governance & Bureaucracy: Allergan is paralyzed by red tape. There are far too many governance layers just to get basic regulatory strategies vetted out. Flawed Compliance Infrastructure: Product approvals are heavily dependent on documentation. However, current records are completely inadequate. Management fundamentally fails to understand how these systems are interlinked. Unqualified & Absentee Leadership: The leader with department oversight completely lacks the expected knowledge and experience for this level, making her a massive liability. She is rarely in the office but knows exactly how to work the system. She aggressively pushes for unnecessary, in-person regulatory meetings solely to accumulate personal travel points rather than to mitigate actual business risks. Disastrous Transition Management: The leadership transition wreaked total havoc across the department. Negligent HR Department: HR shows zero interest in investigating why good talent is leaving the company. Alarming Job Security Signs: It is a massive red flag when a leader encourages employees to apply for roles entirely unrelated to their expertise, or receiving automated AI notifications about job openings outside your department.

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