Finance Manager, ICS for APAC

China, Shanghai

• Oversee the Lonza’s internal control framework (ICS) from an operational perspective for the APAC region to ensure that relevant risks are covered adequately
• Work with the Corporate Compliance to develop the annual program for ICS initiatives, training, communication and testing
• Jointly own the ICS KPIs of On-time completion, Quality, Efficiency of issue solving and the In-control certificate.
• Act as single point of contact for the frontline questions related to the Internal Controls in the APAC region, including first level systems support.
• Support the control owners during the annual ICS cycle from risk self-assessment to testing and reporting.
• Throughout the annual cycle, ensure adequate and regular updates across the regional organization, including relevant management levels.
• Manage the relationship with relevant ICS stakeholders (incl. Process Owners, Function Heads, Finance Legal Entity Responsible and Local business functions) to ensure their support and buy-in to the ICS requirements.
• Ensure regular ICS training to control owners on specific topics, as well as general awareness training for the Finance and Business community in the regional organization.
• Lead, oversee and manage the Segregation of Duties (SoD) topic from an operational perspective to prevent that SoD risks materialize and negatively affect the region.
• Trigger escalation with regional and country management / global financial compliance team for any issues that cannot be resolved by controls owners without support.
• Work closely with R2R function along the Deloitte audit process and coordinate to reply the internal control related enquiries from the external auditor.
• Participate the process design of new system (S4/HANA upgrade), ensure the future process to meet Corporate compliance standard, as well as the statutory requirements defined by the domestic authorities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above, Finance / Accounting./Audit
• Minimum 5 years working experience, experience worked in Big 4 is the plus.

• A proven leader and influencer on internal control topics
• Ability to influence without authority, and the stakeholders management skill to drive the risk owners at all levels to a common result and deadline
• Proactive, hands-on with strong internal controls ethics and mindset.
• Strong communication capability, including to structure presentations and written communication with clear, understandable content.
• SAP working knowledge is preferred
• Analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to interpret data, identify improvements or remediation and present findings to internal and external stakeholders.
• High level of operational awareness across finance transactional processes.

Reference: R68252