APOC Internal Control Manager Job

Mission Details

• Develop and maintain the overall strategy for the ongoing assessment of risks and the evaluation of the control environment.
• Communicate Group’s overall internal control strategy and ensure that leadership understands the business criticality and implications to maintain an effective and efficient control environment.
• Review and evaluate internal processes and controls on an annual basis.
• Develop, implement, and manage policies and procedures designed to identify and manage risk. 
• Identify opportunities for improving and standardizing business processes in all key functional areas to promote efficiency and work with process owners to implement those opportunities.
• Educate and train on policy and procedures, business processes and internal control concepts and methodology. Raise the level of compliance throughout the organization. Provide organizational training regarding the application of policies, business practices and procedures if necessary.
• Serve as the main contact for the internal audit team based in headquarters, including follow-up and assessment of periodic status reports.
• Coordinate annual ITGC & ITAC assessments with External Auditors to ensure reliability of financial systems if necessary. 
• Continuously examine business conditions to ensure the identification of risks and incorporate into internal control testing as deemed appropriate. Define a periodic internal control review plan to cover prioritized potential risk areas and ensure all control processes and procedures are covered.
• Work directly with the business process owners (BPO) to assure test readiness. Monitor and work with BPOs to document and execute remediation for control related deficiencies identified. Ensure appropriate escalation of issues as required. Manage the resolution of deficiencies in processes to develop best practices and deployment of these best practices across appropriate sites.
• Manages the coordination of the DSA activity in conjunction with the APoC Legal Department’s oversight.
• Assist the organization with documenting, assessing and implementing the internal control framework with acquisitions.
• Perform due diligence review and projects as instructed by management.
• Fraud : Monitor all fraud activities, educate and train on prevention and ensure swift communication between all interested parties.

Required Profile

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. Professional Certification and/or MBA preferred.
• Experience: Minimum 10 years in accounting, internal control or internal audit
• Taste for processes.  Must have strong orientation toward internal control and risks assessment.  
• Understanding of and experience in risk analysis, and internal control in a manufacturing environment is a plus.
• Ability to take initiative, rigor, autonomy. 
• Excellent communication both written and oral.  Fluency in English and other Asian languages a plus.
• Ability to work cross-functionally. Ability to pass on the essential concepts of internal control to operational staff: communication, teaching, persuasion, listening (ability to convince and implement).
• Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently. Adaptable to change.
• Frequent travelling required.