Senior Risk and Internal Control Manager
Are you looking for a challenge to help FrieslandCampina Vietnam secure compliance with Internal Controls? Do you like to continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of controls and related processes? Want to support Global Business Services and Operating companies in managing their risks and controls within an international setting? Do you have a financial background and are a Qualified Accountant, Auditor or Controller (e.g. Chartered Accountant)? Then strengthen our team as a Senior Risk & Internal Control Manager!
What we ask
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in accounting or finance and qualified Accountant, Auditor or Controller
- 6-10 years of working experience in a matrix complex organisation, preferably in an international organization or larger Consultancy / Audit Firm
- Proven knowledge and work experience in managing internal controls, process improvements, finance and accounting
- Knowledge and experience in risk management, IT systems and controls, segregation of duties, and end-to-end business processes
- Good knowledge and experience with risk & control and end-to-end business processes on a strategic, tactical and operational level.
- Work experience in distributor/customer end-to-end business processes, internal control compliance, and process improvements will be an added advantage
- Experience with SAP ERP and experience with Power BI data analytics tools will be an added advantage
- Strong analytical skills, hands-on and problem-solving
- Business acumen and judgment; balancing control & pragmatism
- Influencing without authority, direct and remotely
- Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines
- Effective at dealing with people at all levels (interpersonal skills)
- Professional communication in English and writing and verbal
- Strong ethical standards and commitment to confidentiality.
What we offer
FrieslandCampina offers you a place to be yourself. In an innovative work environment with facilities and support that are second to none, we welcome your skills, ideas and passion. Most of all we welcome you as the person you are and the person you want to be. Our mission is to liberate people so that they can work smarter.
FrieslandCampina Vietnam is located in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Our colleagues are diverse in ethnicity, gender and language. Opportunities to work with all different functions and many more locally or abroad. We believe in people development where you chart your own path for your own career growth.
Our reward policies support FrieslandCampina’s values and business strategy by helping to attract, engage and retain the best possible talent at every level. We offer remuneration packages that recognize and reward individual performance, experience and potential while reflecting competitive practices in all the countries in which we operate. A transparent, consistent and fair approach to reward is critical to our success and growth.
Vacancy description
General
- As part of the Enterprise Governance Risk and Control (EGRC) team, drive RFC's control activities and review various business requests related to risk & control (e.g. risk deep-dives, control implementations, control optimizations, global policy establishment & control standard setting, etc.)
- Drive RFC's distributor internal control compliance activities (i.e. monitor compliance, follow up on exceptions and perform investigations)
- Continuously creating awareness of internal controls and enhancing the risk & control culture and mindset within the organisation.
Specific:
- Perform risk-based internal control set (ICF) scoping by alignment with organisation and Compliance team
- Roll-out new/enhanced controls and provide expertise towards more junior team members
- Plan and coordinate control testing activities including training of assessors and perform own (design) assessments and quality review.
- Review of ICF findings, design remediation plan with control owner, follow up with entities to ensure complete and timely closure of ICF findings
- Periodic (HY1, Q3 and Q4) reporting to Management on ICF performance (Sign- off Management statement, ICF dashboard and findings list)
- Coordinate the follow up on identified distributor exceptions and work with stakeholders to implement improvement actions
- Plan and coordinate specific distributor deep-dive and investigation(s)
- Periodic reporting of distributor internal controls compliance status to Management
- Perform periodic assessment on Segregation of Duties (SOD) conflicts and critical access right review
- Work with organization and Governance and Technology team to reduce SOD conflict and critical access
- Coordinate SOD improvement activities
- Coordinate with Corporate Internal Audit (CIA) and entities on audit planning and execution (i.e. audit timing, scope, assessment questions, arranging meetings, on-site support, gathering of audit evidences)
- For audit issues raised, work with entities to define effective and efficient remediation action plans (determine action owner and realistic deadline for audit issues)
- Follow up with action owners to ensure complete and timely closure of audit issues
- Periodic reporting to Management on status of audit issues
- Coordinate with entities to prepare required control documents based on external audit request, including explaining of business processes and control environment of entity.
- Participate in global/regional Risk & Control related engagements and support larger or manage smaller Risk & Control engagement based on subject matter expertise
Team Details
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We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.
The international team is based in Amersfoort, Budapest, Kuala Lumpur and respective countries (Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe) with a crucial role in monitoring and managing risks globally; They drive the Enterprise Risk Management program, establish strong control measures where the organisation is at risk through the Internal Control Framework and continuously drive resolutions and improvement when risk materialise, audit findings arise and processes & systems evolve over time. This position is based in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam with one existing team member, and reports directly to the Associate Director Risk and Control based in Amersfoort, Netherlands.