Senior Manager Internal Control

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

To help GCA management raise awareness of internal control/compliance, identify and address internal control/compliance risks with the ultimate goal to support sustainable business growth.

Key Responsibilities:

Internal Control

Policies and Procedures

• Develop policy update/development plan with line manager and business owners
• Follow up on execution of policy update/development plan with policy owners to ensure timely development/update of policies and procedures according to plan
• Provide assistance to policy owners on policy update/development, training and communication
• Coordinate complex policy update/development and draft complex policy
• Conduct quality check of policy draft to ensure draft is up to quality standard before passing to line manager for further review
• Organize release of policies and keep record of adidas China policies and procedures

ICS Testing

• Plan/coordinate/conduct internal control system (ICS) testing and self-assessment
• Propose/align action plans with process owners to address issues identified in ICS testing
• Follow up on ICS testing action plan and drive timely execution

Group Internal Audit

• Provide coordination and other assistances as required by group internal auditors
• Follow up on internal audit reports and ensure timely closure of issues

Authorization Matrix

• Keep authorization matrix updated on a regular basis and properly maintained in workflow
• Provide training on authorization matrix to newcomers

Process Review/Audit

• Plan and conduct process review/audit to identify internal control issues/improvement opportunities and solutions

Investigation Management

• Independently manage/conduct investigation of ethical hotline allegations or other noncompliant activities by deploying both internal and external resources according to Compliance Committee Charter
• Ensure completion of investigation reports and necessary documentation to successfully present cases that will satisfy criminal courts and/or internal disciplinary processes
• Develop/update allegation tracking form for IC&PP team and provide concise and timely updates to line manager

Key Relationships:

• adidas GCA team
• Group Internal Audit and Internal Control
• GCA Compliance Committee
• Group Compliance
• External consultants

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• High degree of responsibility and personal integrity
• Self-starter, desire to learn & grow
• Hands on and attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to organize work and projects, prioritize and meet deadlines in an efficient manner
• Ability to balance need for operation efficiency and risk control
• Excellent written/oral English
• Advanced Microsoft Office Skills, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• SAP exposure a plus

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or above
• CIA or CPA qualification a plus
• Forensic accounting qualification a plus
• 8+ years of audit experience with an international audit firm and/or
• Internal audit/internal control experience with a multinational company
• Profound knowledge of best practices in internal control/internal audit and policy & procedures
• Additional experience in investigation/forensic accounting/compliance a plus