Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization
As second line of defence, partner with Management to identify risk-based opportunities to improve business processes by balancing risk and control. Primary objectives:
- Design and perform continuous monitoring (including risk monitoring and controls testing) to assess the adequacy, effectiveness and efficiency of risk management and controls.
- Draw on process expertise and act on risk.
- Develop and implement management resolutions that address root causes.
- Shorten the time to management action.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and perform continuous monitoring to assess the adequacy, effectiveness and efficiency of risk management and controls.
- Actively provide risk-based vs control advice and/or solutions on new initiatives, transitions, and/or process changes.
- Continuous review of the ICS framework to ensure relevance to GBS operating model, GBS operations and balancing the risk/cost and benefits.
- Timely coordination/execution of the ICS testing (control reviews) including mandatory documentation in Teammate+ and heading remediation of all identified control deficiencies in collaboration with local Senior Management
- Drive Global Policy Manual (GPM) awareness and ensure GPM relevance to GBS operations.
- Follow up on ICS exceptions and/or CIA recommendations and ensure timely closure of actions/ issues.
- Act as the SPOC for internal and external audits.
Process/System Review
- Plan and conduct end-to-end process reviews/audit to identify risk / internal control issues/improvement. Ensure that proposed internal control(s) are embedded i.e. effective and efficient.
Data Analytics
- Assess, develop and build a data analytics framework to identify potential risks and anomalies as part of continuous monitoring. This includes but not limited to, identifying relevant data points to monitor on an ongoing basis.
- Independently manage and/or conduct data analytics to provide risk-based insights to stakeholders. Key Relationships:
- GBS: Senior Leadership Team, GPOs, Delivery Excellence, Transition Management teams
- Market Internal controls teams and Finance Director.
- Group functions such as Global Internal controls, Group Policies & Accounting Principles, Group Risk & Compliance Management, etc.
- Internal and external auditors
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Effective communication and presentation skills with ability to influence and convey recommendations to address risks.
- Ability to understand and navigate within complex organization structures, diverse cultures, and system landscape.
- Strong data mindset and analytical capabilities with the ability to manage large volumes of data/information from various sources and connect the dots to derive meaningful observations.
- Knowledge in the use of SAP FI and advanced user of MS Office suite of products including Power BI.
- Experience working with SQL, Python, Databricks, CoPilot, Power Automate and Knime preferred.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- University degree or above
- CIA or CPA qualification is a plus.
- Fluent in spoken and written English
- Minimum 8+ years of audit experience with an international audit firm and/or internal audit/internal control experience with a multinational company
- Profound knowledge of best practices in internal control/internal audit and policy & procedures
- Previous experience in Retail industry or shared services a plus
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