Risk & Internal Controls Specialist

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This position reports to

Assurance, Risk & Internal Controls Mngr

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to support and facilitate the assessment of financial reporting risks and the design, implementation, and maintenance of a high-quality system of Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICoFR). Each day, you will coordinate activities to design, implement, and maintain a system of internal control, in line with the group standards. You will also showcase your expertise by supporting the management in timely and sustainable remediation of deficiencies, if any. Your role and responsibilities - Drive and shape a strong control environment in cooperation with the responsible operational management. - Evaluate and improve the control environment and operational effectiveness for ABB Service Xiamen hub and its Front offices and ensure compliance with ABB’s policies and procedures. - Support process walkthroughs with responsible process owners to identify control gaps and improvements in pursuit of high-quality risk and control execution. - Drive the implementation of standardize processes and controls to simplify and rationalize the internal control environment. - Define and implement process automation applications in close cooperation with IT in order to strengthen the control environment and to drive efficiency. - Support for Segregation of Duties (SoD) in and across IT-systems together with business and IT assessing SoD- conflicts, support in designing mitigating controls where SoD conflicts are unavoidable. - Drive the remediation and deficiency assessment process and proactively work with the Process and Control owners to define the deficiency root causes and to establish proper remediation plans. - Responsible for the implementation of local or group wide methodology changes. - Perform quality reviews to ensure high quality level of routine risk and internal control activities per required, including but not limited to provide IC supports when executing internal/external audits, process walkthrough, management testing, self-testing and quarterly process level controls performance confirmation program.

Qualifications for the role

• Your background
• Bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting or business administration.
• Minimum 5 years of working experience in audit or internal control related areas, experience on internal controls over sustainability reporting is a plus.
• Finance knowledge, audit knowledge, SOX knowledge, process understanding, basic knowledge of SAP. strong audit conceptual knowledge
• Service-oriented mindset; solid commitment to quality and continuous improvement – can do attitude
• Strong communication skills - both written and oral.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills and an enthusiastic learner and team player.
• Strong self-learning ability with strong self-drive.
• Familiar with data analyst tool is a plus.

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