Head Of Internal Controls - Latam

Head of Internal Controls - LATAM

City: São Paulo

We are Reckitt, home to the world's best-loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal, and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

About the role

This role leads the squad, reporting to the group Internal Controls team and partnering with the regional markets teams to deliver the assurance plan while also supporting the local market teams in remediation of gaps. Another key aspect of the role is to ensure successful delivery of the transformation by acting as a link between the market and the Global Internal Controls team working closely with the market to drive the improvements in the controls environment and the culture of control.

Your responsibilities

1. Execution of the controls assurance and transformation activities in market including engaging market teams, planning and scoping, control design assessment, operational effectiveness testing, remediation, and reporting including supporting market attestation to group.
2. Manage the day-to-day operational aspects of delivery (and third parties) including review updates to control documentation to ensure updates to process flowcharts and controls are current and are aligned with internal control guidelines.
3. Line management of the squad team and management of external partners supporting delivery in the region covered by the squad.
4. Reporting of the status of the control environment to market leadership, regional controller team and programme team and GIC team.
5. Partner with the regional controller team and local management teams to drive improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of the control environment.
6. Support entities not in regulatory scope to adopt and operation the group mandate controls frameworks.
7. Inputs into group risk assessment and scoping activities.
8. Monitor local control environment to ensure where change is made appropriate controls are in place.
9. Work with the central Organizational Change Management team to drive change to the controls culture in the market.
10. Provide Subject Matter expertise to support the market with remediation as well as tracking remediation.
11. Support the development of the control framework, IT tooling implementations, identification Continuous Control Monitoring and automation testing opportunities.
12. Partner with IT 2nd line of defence to ensure IT aspects of control are integrated into the overall view of the effectiveness of the control environment.
13. Support Programme Manager/PMO with preparation of materials for key programme and leadership meetings.
14. Support 1st line on remediation process providing guidance.
15. Ensure all documentation is maintained appropriately and updated timely with latest updates.
16. Input into programme governance structures including preparation and facilitation of local updates, feedback to programme and senior leadership.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Accountancy qualification would be advantageous.
• Demonstrable strong knowledge of internal controls and US SOX.
• Controls implementation and testing experience/management of controls testing.
• Knowledge of other core finance end-to-end business processes (P2P, O2C, R2R, Inventory).
• Experience of having worked in finance positions an advantage.
• Big 4 background an Advantage.
• Experience with COSO framework and COBIT framework an advantage.
• SAP business process control experience is essential.
• Experience of supporting management teams in implementing controls; ideally experience with business transformation programmes.
• Demonstrable ability to engage and manage different level stakeholders and multicultural audience/s through communication and presentation skills.
• Collaborative and transparent ways of working.
• Fluent spoken & written English/Spanish.
• Effective and impactful communication skills with an ability to articulate complex concepts in concise language.
• Good organizational skills, ability to move from one task to another efficiently.
• Effective and impactful communication skills with an ability to articulate complex concepts in concise language.
• Good networking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively with virtual teams via video calls, and good use and ability to drive adoption of collaboration tools such as Teams.
• Ability to work with the teams located across multiple locations.
• Business/finance experience, preferably in FMCG sector.

The skills for success

• Business Acumen, Investment Analysis, Project Management, Accounting principles, Financial Reporting, Internal controls, Financial analysis and reporting, Stakeholder engagement and influence, Strategic thinking, Risk management.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their way. We invest in the well-being of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognize, appreciate, and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognize that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feel like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, or medical condition; color, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

Human Rights

The Reckitt Group doesn't charge for participation in selection processes. If you receive a message requesting payment, do not respond and contact us via social media or SAC. Following human rights policy, we do not hire anyone under 18 for this role.

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