Manager, Internal Audit

**COMPANY BACKGROUND**

Haier is the number one brand of Major Appliances in the world with 9.7 percent of global market share. Headquartered in Qingdao, Haier has over 80,000 employees across 30 countries in the world.

Haier Singapore is one of the holding companies under Haier Group. As the integrated regional centre, Haier Singapore is the main platform to provide procurement, trading, R&D and big data supports to over 80 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America markets.

As the continuous demands from global businesses, we are looking for passionate and creative Audit Professional to join our Internal Audit team.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

Based in Singapore, you will be part of the global internal control & audit team and provide risk management, internal control and internal audit services to Haier businesses in the world. This role involves high levels of exposure to senior management. Main duties include:

- Build trusting relationship with stakeholders in assigned countries, regions and/or functional area(s) of responsibility, specifically acting as business partner to the local and regional management with the aim of increasing the team’s understanding of the business operations, driving risks and control initiatives, completing the annual work plan, and vice versa.
- Lead effective audit teams throughout projects in different functions and geographical regions, including coaching to team members and guest auditors and managing the responsibilities and deliverables of team members.
- Plan, execute and lead operational audits and other reviews to identify value-adding control gaps through data analysis and evaluate the underlying root causes to provide feasible and sound recommendations to the businesses.
- Deliver high quality reports and presentations for projects and routine reporting to regional management and headquarters.
- Participate in risk management initiatives, such as risk awareness trainings, risk assessment, compliance audits and forensic investigations as they arise from time to time.
- Maintain awareness of new and emerging risks for Haier Group on a global and regional basis as well as track progress and effectively support the risk mitigation and control gap remediation process.
- Conduct presentations, trainings and seminars to regional management and team in order to promote Haier’s governance frameworks.
- Contribute to initiatives aimed at developing and improving Haier’s internal control, risk management and governance frameworks.
- Assist with other ad-hoc duties as required

**KEY REQUIREMENTS**
- Degree in Accounting and Finance, or its equivalent.
- Minimum 8 years of risk management and audit experience with a combination of in-house and/or Big 4 internal audit role
- Demonstrated experience in project management and managing projects through the audit lifecycle
- Prior people leader experience preferred
- Cross-cultural experience and experience with data analytics is a plus
- Familiar with Consumer Electronics, FMCG industry with basic knowledge in manufacturing, sales processes, procurement and related internal controls will be considered favourably
- ACCA, CPA, CIA, CISA, CFE or CCEP accreditations will be of added advantage
- Possess good analytical skills and able to gather, analyze, evaluate facts, and reach appropriate conclusions.
- Ability to think critically and work under pressure analytically and systematically
- Self-motivated with ability to multi-task without missing deadlines
- Strong in organizational and prioritization skills
- Proactive, agile and able to adapt to changing priorities, new circumstances and different challenges
- Proven ability to work across different functions and geographical regions, and able to articulate ideas and concepts persuasively to influence stakeholders in order to achieve objectives
- Confidence to work autonomously to deliver high quality results
- Excellent English abilities as well as ability to speak, read and write business Chinese to liaise with Mandarin speaking stakeholders
- Willingness to travel internationally (50% travel)