Regional Compliance and Ethics Manager

Overview:

A highly competent, detail-oriented compliance officer to support Asia BUs & ANZ Director to implement and manage the compliance program in Asia Foods locations. The compliance officer will play a crucial role in reaching out to the employee population in Thailand & Vietnam.

Responsibilities:

- Internal investigation manager and lead investigator for high risk cases, approximate 40 total cases and 5-10 high risk cases per year, each taking 40-60 days to complete, align the Control Environment Committee members on all substantiated cases and the action plans before execution. 

- Track the completion of the investigation remedial actions, influence stakeholders to take timely and solid improvements addressing the issues identified in investigations. 

- Design, deliver and track compliance process onboarding for the country offices in scope. 

- Lead Culture of Integrity and Leading with Integrity and other business ethics in-person trainings to the relevant teams and executive management every year.

- Design, implement and track the impact of the compliance related communication and messages in the BU. (Videos, flyers, email messages, portal banners, physical items, etc) 

- Coordinate the assignment and completion of annual code of conduct and ABAC trainings during Code month 

- Establish presence and manage the compliance programs in the 3 existing plants and the future Ha Nam Plant.

- Run compliance risk assessment and align and manage the action plan resulting from it

- Join control as a subject matter expert in fraud risk assessments in each market 

- Manage the conflict-of-interest disclosures made by the employees in the ICF BU. (50-60 disclosures per year) 

- Build and maintain regular connects with the BU management teams to stay up to date on the business to ensure adequate steps are taken to mitigate compliance risk. 

- Attend the project steerco meetings for existing and future Greenfield projects. 

- Manage and track the adherence to the guardrails established around the assignment of chairmen / commissioner roles in the BU. 

- Prepare quarterly updates for the BU Control environment committee (CEC: CFO, Controller, HRD, General Counsel), present the stats and highlights and escalate issues and red flags in the BU, follow up on the CEC meeting action points. 

- Support the Asia, ICF & ANZ BU Compliance Officer with any other ad-hoc issues or delegated tasks where needed.  

What you need to have?

- Relevant Degree from a mid-top tier university. (Law, Business, Economics, Accounting, Science or Engineering)

- Preferred to have 7+ years of experience in Internal or external audit, consulting, HR, control, finance, compliance, or legal.

- In-house experience in FMCG or a highly regulated industry is a plus.

What makes you stand out?

- Fluency in English both spoken & written.

- Native speaker of Vietnamese

- Knowing of Thai is a plus

- Ability to stay calm under pressure and when facing conflict

- Ability to analyse complex situations and deliver clear and simple advice

- Strong communication and influencing skills