Leader - Internal Control - CA - Manufacturing

Hiring Internal Controls Leader with 6-10 years in Bangalore for Swedish MNC.

Ideal Candidate :

- Strong Internal Controls/ Internal Audit/ SOX skills

- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences

- Proven ability to lead and develop a small team

- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

- Demonstrated ability to successfully work in a complex matrix type organizational structure, and manage direct and indirect reports

- Effective organizational and time management skills, with adherence to deadlines

- Established computer proficiency, with emphasis in SAP or other major ERP system

- Knowledge of audit process, documentation, workflow

Roles and responsibilities :

- Act as single point of contact for planning, coordinating and supporting internal controls, internal audit, statutory audit activities

- Enhance internal controls over financial reporting

- Will be interacting with senior management and leadership team

- Understand and identify operational, financial, and compliance risks in order to formulate appropriate, practical, and cost-effective recommendations

- Provide guidelines and best practices to improve processes

- Execute and monitor internal controls, ensuring effective and efficient activities that support organizational objectives, while adhering to applicable laws, regulations, directives, policies, and procedures

- Develop and promote standard and consistent processes and controls across product groups and functions

- Transfer and promote ownership of processes, controls, and control assessments to Business Users, including providing on-going training

- Manage internal control assessments in a variety of environments, divisions, product lines, and applications, and appropriately assess the exposures resulting from ineffective or missing control practices

- Support development of the annual Risk Assessment and Internal Control Plan

- Support reporting on the annual Internal Control Points of Attention

- Capture the existing process and control points through walk through and narratives for key financial and business processes

- Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls for key financial and business processes - revenue, expenditures, closing the books, IT general controls, etc.

- Test internal controls for various businesses within the division

- Recommend corrective actions and improvements where needed and appropriate.

- Upload information (documentation / testing) into a central repository

- Perform audit testing and documents audit fieldwork, including drafting audit findings for audit reports.

- Identifies value added/process improvement opportunities.

- Participate in individual audit planning

- Perform detailed operating, financial and strategic analysis, as needed.

- Perform detailed data analysis using IT tools including fraud detection techniques. Prepare and present individual audit findings to division management,clearly articulating the potential impact of issues.

- Assist with drafting individual audit reports and updates, as needed.

- Ad hoc projects within the scope of Internal Controls, including coordination of business continuity activities, SOD review, etc.

Education : Chartered Accountant

Previous Experience :

- 7+ years of business/finance/accounting experience in a manufacturing or public accounting environment preferably in big four

- Public accounting and/or SarbanesOxley (or similar) experience is a plus