Internal Control Specialist (Junior/Medior)

Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV (HCME); Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 48,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days leave + 13 extra days (ADV)

Metalektro CLA

Pension scheme with high employer rate

Home working and flexible hours

Workplace setup budget €1500

Collective accident insurance

International learning program

Career opportunities

Job summary

Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe (HCME) is seeking an Internal Control Specialist to strengthen governance, risk management and ESG-related controls across our Amsterdam-based teams. You will translate requirements into practical controls, evidence and improvements, coordinating with business owners and auditors.

The role involves working across departments to map processes to the risk framework, perform control tests, and support ESRS/CSRD compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in finance, accounting, audit or related field.
• Experience in auditing, SOx/JSOx, ICFR or internal controls.
• Ability to organize broad, competing work into concrete deliverables.
• Confidence working with stakeholders with differing expectations, yet evidence-based.
• Proactive, hands-on and solution-oriented with ownership for actions.
• Excellent written and spoken English and interpersonal communication.
• Experience in large or international organizations and audits.

Responsibilities

• Understand business strategy and communicate related financial risks and requirements.
• Document risks and controls in line with JSOx/ICFR and parent-company standards.
• Perform walkthroughs, test controls, evaluate evidence, and track remediation.
• Maintain processes and map them to risk and control framework.
• Respond to auditor questions and assist with subsidiary audits.
• Support ESG governance and related due diligence activities.
• Help improve templates, methods, and ownership clarity.

Skills

Auditing experience

SOx/JSOx/ICFR

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Organizational skills

Experience in international orgs

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance/audit/business

Tools

Signavio

SAP

Excel

Job description

Who We Are

At Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe (HCME), we produce the widest range of hydraulic excavators in the world, ranging from one-tonne minis to 780-tonne mining excavators. HCME also supplies wheel loaders, rigid dump trucks, and other construction equipment for special applications. But we don’t just build machines—we build the future of construction. As part of the global Hitachi family, we’re driven by innovation, sustainability, and a commitment to delivering reliable solutions that shape the world around us. Our Amsterdam headquarters is home to a diverse, collaborative team working on cutting-edge technologies and services that support customers across Europe and beyond.

Location: Amsterdam / Hybrid

Team: ESG & Internal Control

Type: Full-time

Our Values

• Honesty and sincerity.
• Respect for our environment.
• Social consciousness and respect for others.
• Responsible management and “agreed is agreed”.

Your Mission

As an Internal Control Specialist, you help strengthen our internal control, governance and ESG-related processes. You work with business owners, auditors and colleagues across departments to translate risks, policies and parent-company requirements into practical controls, clear evidence and sustainable improvements.

What Working In This Role Is Really Like

• This is a broad role rather than a narrowly defined internal control position. The ESG & Internal Control team works across several disciplines, and you will regularly switch between controls, audits, processes, stakeholder questions and improvement activities.
• Departments may apply different internal expectations or levels of documentation. You will need to clarify the applicable requirement, identify common ground and elevate material differences when needed.
• The team and operating model are still developing. Not every responsibility, process or objective is fully standardized or translated into a SMART individual target.
• You are expected to create structure: confirm scope and priorities, make ownership explicit, agree deliverables and follow actions through.
• Priorities can compete. Success requires transparent planning, timely communication and the confidence to ask for decisions when trade-offs are needed.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Understand business strategy and objectives and communicate related financial-reporting risks and administrative-organizational requirements.
• Prepare, assess and document risks and controls in line with JSOx, ICFR and parent-company standards, including Entity Level Controls (ELC), Financial Closing and Reporting Process (FCRP) and Process Level Controls (PLC).
• Perform walkthroughs and control testing, evaluate the quality of audit evidence, document findings and follow remediation actions with control owners.
• Maintain relevant processes and align changes with business owners, including mapping processes to the risk and control framework.
• Respond to auditor questions and assist with subsidiary audits aligned with the HCM audit schedule.
• Support ESG-related governance and control activities, including CSRD, ESRS, EU Taxonomy and ESG due diligence where relevant to the team portfolio.
• Help the team improve templates, working methods, ownership, objectives and reporting.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional level in finance, accounting, audit, business administration or a related field.
• Demonstrable experience in auditing, SOx/JSOx, ICFR or internal controls. You can explain in detail how you assessed risks, controls and evidence, not only which frameworks you worked with.
• Ability to organize broad and competing work, clarify ambiguous assignments and convert them into concrete deliverables and next steps.
• Confidence working with stakeholders who may have different expectations, while remaining pragmatic and evidence-based.
• Proactive, hands-on and solution-oriented working style, with ownership for follow-up and agreed actions.
• Clear written and spoken English and effective interpersonal communication.
• Experience in a large or international organization and in working with internal or external audit teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Signavio, SAP, Excel or comparable process, ERP and analysis tools.
• Experience with ESG reporting, controls or assurance.
• Working knowledge of Dutch.

What Success Looks Like

• You can independently explain the rationale, design, evidence and result of your work.
• Stakeholders know what is expected, who owns the next action and when it should be completed.
• Differences in departmental practices are made visible and resolved or consciously accepted.
• You remain effective across diverse assignments without losing priorities, quality or follow-up.

What We Offer

• Compensation built of a yearly gross salary between 48.000 euros and 80.000 euros (including holiday allowance and based on experience)
• 27 days of leave + 13 extra collective days of leave (ADV)
• ‘Metalektro’ Collective Labour Agreement (CLA)
• Excellent pension scheme with a high employer contribution
• Working from home possibility and flexible working hours
• Budget of 1500 euro’s to set up your workplace
• Collective accident insurance
• International learning and development program
• Career opportunities