Our Client
Our client is the integrated agribusiness and food company. It is one of Asia’s largest privately owned agribusinesses with production facilities across eight countries in Asia. Its parent company is publicly listed on one of the stock exchanges in SEA. In view of the scope expansion, they are looking for a Senior Internal Auditor based in Singapore (corporate office). The scope of work would entail regional involvement for all the entities under the group classified under Cluster B (Malaysia, China & Singapore).
The Role
Reporting to Manager, Internal Audit (Cluster B), you will be responsible for performing individual internal audit projects, as part of the Audit Master Plan. These responsibilities include developing internal audit plan, scope, audit work program, performing internal audit procedures and preparing internal audit reports reflecting the results of the work performed, and providing sound, practical and innovative audit recommendations designed to add value and improve the organization’s operations.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct end to end walkthroughs to identify risks, control gaps, and improvement opportunities covering the organization’s control environment and operational processes.
- Following the Group Internal Audit Methodology as a guide, design and execute testing plan to assess the design and operating effectiveness of controls.
- Conduct remediation testing or follow-up audit to ensure remediation plans for ineffective controls are fully implemented and control deficiencies are properly remediated.
- Ensure that audit working papers, testing results and documentation of findings or observations are accurate, complete, and properly stored and secured.
- Prepare accurate, objective, clear, concise, constructive, complete and timely audit report and upon review and approval by the immediate superior, communicate results thereof to the appropriate parties.
- Establish and maintain a system to monitor the disposition of results communicated to management.
- Establish a follow-up process to monitor and ensure that management actions have been effectively implemented or that management has accepted the risk of not taking action.
- Participate in the internal control projects covering all operations where necessary for the Food Group.
- Take part in special investigations where necessary and report to the Audit Committee with the highest level of confidentiality.
- Manage the Outsource and Co-Source parties in completing the assignments when needed.
- Plan effectively to deal with varying office locations and time zones including travel time as the nature of the job requires frequent travel to maximize output.
Your Profile
- Required: Bachelor/ Masters.
- Desirable: Bachelor of Accounting, Auditing and Finance or equivalent professional certification.
- Minimum 5 years in the area of external/internal audits or related fields. Relevant experience in the Big4 will be highly preferred.
- CPA/CIA/CFE/CISA will be highly preferred.
- Fluent in English and Business Chinese with excellent communication skills enabling to speak at all levels of the business stakeholders in China entities.
- Knowledge of accounting and finance, good understanding of accounting and IT skill; standards and procedures, law and regulations.
- High sense of integrity and confidentiality.
- Confident communication to work with departments.
- Ability to keep calm under pressure and people’s behavior.
- Improve effective communication in meeting, discussion with directors, senior managers and stakeholders in different departments.
- Willingness to travel (up to 40%) within APAC region (mainly southern part of China and Vietnam on ad- hoc basis)