- Minimum 10+ years’ experience with prior Big 4 exp of min 4 years.
- 7+ years of experiences and knowledges of internal control Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) guidelines, compliances, and processes.
- Demonstrate a broad and good knowledge on generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), IFRS and local accounting standard (as required).
Our client is a growing company in the e commerce sector.
For this Head of Internal Control role, you are responsible for the overall aspects and activities of the Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICOFR), operational process, control evaluations, and to drive business process improvements with the objective to ensure Financial Statements’ accuracy, SOX and other relevant regulatory compliance, and to promote effective and efficiency operations.
You will work with all the functions in the Finance department and are additionally expected to work with other business departmental heads in designing the different types of control in the form of policies and/or procedures, assist in planning and monitor the implementation to ensure the right controls are put in place.
Key job scope:
- Accountable for, lead and setup the whole team of internal controls that fits with the firm’s products growth.
- Review existing accounting and financial controls and other legal compliance processes in place and make any necessary revisions/additions to ensure the Group’s SOX ICOFR policy and testing methodology are always up to date.
- Perform analytical review of business process & controls to identify the potential risk, control deficiencies or new initiatives for continuous improvements.
- Suggest/ define recommendations to drive improvements in business process and controls, including driving initiatives related to automating controls that are manual in nature to save costs and improve transaction processing in term of speed.
- Coordinate and potentially lead the work relating to remediation of audit deficiencies, to collaborate with other operations and technology team.
- Conducts regular internal testing controls and review to ensure the compliance to the SOX standards.
- Coordinate/oversee the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) activities related to internal controls documentation and testing and segregation of duties for the overall cycles (e.g., Revenue to Receivables, Marketing activities, Purchase to Pay, Treasury, Taxation, Investment, Financial Statement Closing Process, etc.).
- Ensure the SOX documentations, i.e., Flow Chart, narrative and Risk Control Matrix are up to date.
- Identify and conduct specific training and development needs to fill compliance gaps related to the internal controls to bring the company, a department, or particular employees up to speed on compliance standards.
- Coordinate and lead the implementation of the agreed upon recommendations, related to the area of responsibility, resulting from the audit findings, both internal and external.
- Ensures that the internal control team is staffed with qualified financial personnel capable of understanding the accounting and finance processes and controls, and technological skills of understanding the business processes and systems. Responsible for continued development of these associates and any updates and necessary training in accordance with the regulatory requirements.
Requirements (Education, Technical Skills, Relevant Experiences)
- Degree qualified with minimum 10+ years’ experience in internal control /SOX/audit for the Senior Mgr role. For the head role, would require min 15 years with supervisory experience.
- Prior public accounting experience (Big 4) is required.
- 7+ years of in-depth experience/knowledge of internal control Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) guidelines, compliances, and processes. Experience setting up SOX is highly preferred (but not a must)
- Demonstrate a broad and good knowledge on generally accepted ccounting principles (GAAP), IFRS and local accounting standard (as required).
- Able to dynamically work on managing multiple ends of aspects from accounting, financial, business, and operational to support business growth while able to define and design the key controls in each of the process.
- Ability to translate and bridge the financial and technology concepts to – and to effectively collaborate with – all colleagues and stakeholders who do not necessarily have accounting/finance/technology backgrounds.
- Experience in US listed company and familiar with Asia-based operating company.
- Strong attention to details and thoroughness in all aspects of the accounting/finance standards, process, and financial reporting.
- Excellent communication and relationship building skills with an ability to prioritise, negotiate, and work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Has a relatively stable cv.
Note: this co is based in town. For this MNC, the employees work 100% from office.
To apply, pl send your cv in word doc to [email protected]. Pl also include details on your current salary, expected salary and notice period in your cv.
We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Posted by:
CAP Consulting (EA license: 14C7175)
Caroline Poh (EA Registration: R1105649)
Date ad is posted - 10 October 2024
