Senior Risk & Internal Control Manager

General:

• As part of the Enterprise Governance Risk and Control (EGRC) team, drive Royal FrieslandCampina (RFC) 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

• Bachelor or Masters 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 of risk management, IT systems and controls, segregation of duties, 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 tool 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.