Paola Serrano Tanguay

Leading the Internal Audit, Controls and Analytics function for Mondelēz, with oversight of Manufacturing and Supply Chain operations across 600+ plants and warehouses globally.

• • Strategy & Risk: Define the regional IC strategy and risk priorities in close collaboration with senior leadership, translating complex risk landscapes into clear, actionable outcomes for the business.

• • Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a trusted risk advisor to business partners on controls and compliance topics.

• • Team Leadership & Development: Lead a distributed team across Europe and India. Actively invest in each person's growth through coaching, mentoring, and preparing them for their next career step.

• • Capabilities & Culture: Partner with business leaders and key stakeholders to embed a culture of control and compliance across the organization, developing training resources, playbooks, and engagement programs.

• • Process Redesign: Lead end-to-end redesign of processes, governance models, and ways of working across the MSC network, impacting hundreds of sites and employees.

• • Digital & Analytics: Design and deploy a risk monitoring tool covering 100+ manufacturing plants globally, reaching 400+ users and generating 7,000+ views in its first six months, giving senior leadership direct visibility into risk.

• • Quality & Oversight: Provide strategic oversight of audit and advisory reviews across the region, challenging findings and engaging with senior leaders on key conclusions and remediation priorities.

Led the Internal Controls and Analytics function across European and global markets, with a focus on Manufacturing and Supply Chain operations.

• • Analytics & Digital: Co-founded and scaled the Risk & Analytics function within Internal Audit & Controls, establishing analytics as a core pillar of the function. Designed tools to automate SOX controls and enable continuous monitoring across 40+ control points in 600+ facilities.

• • Risk & Insights: Led global risk assessments providing senior leadership with actionable insights, identifying cost reduction opportunities across inventory and operational workflows.

• • Capabilities & Culture: Partnered with business leaders to embed risk awareness and control ownership beyond the audit function, building educational materials and capability programs across the region.

• • Team Leadership: Managed a multicultural, globally distributed team across Europe and India.

Led the Risk & Analytics function within Internal Audit & Controls, driving the digital transformation agenda and building analytical capabilities across the team and the business.

• • Digital Transformation: Championed the integration of analytics into the IC & IA strategy, directing the development of data-driven tools and methodologies.

• • Digital Tools: Designed tools to automate key SOX controls and enable continuous monitoring across 40+ control points in 600+ facilities.

• • Capabilities & Training: Led global training initiatives on data analytics.

• • Governance: Implement the governance framework.