Internal Control Specialist

Location: Warsaw, PL
Company: AkzoNobel

What do we offer:

• Becoming part of a high performance professional team, consisting of professionals with various areas of expertise.
• Being able to broaden your perspective in this global role. Our department guides, assists and challenges AkzoNobel (senior) management in all process areas.
• Advancing your career within AkzoNobel as you will be exposed to various businesses, processes and tooling within a complex international environment.

Your responsibilities:

• Supporting and driving implementation of the AkzoNobel Internal Control Framework.
• Business partnering with the Regional Management and other stakeholders, and translating requirements within the Corporate Internal Control agenda.
• Monitoring all internal control related activities within the Region and providing support and aligning with other internal control staff and systems experts regarding follow up on regional activities.
• Supporting standardization and best practice sharing of control framework within the Region and across and in cooperation with the businesses, functions and service centers.
• Embedding a process improvement culture, driving process and control improvement and realising benefits.
• Advising the entities on segregation of duty conflict reduction and associated mitigating controls.
• Driving monitoring of Business Authority procedures and other applicable governance policies and procedures.
• Liaising with Internal Audit on the scope and timing of audits, and supporting management on preparation, agreement on findings and follow up of related actions.
• Driving an adequate reporting process on internal control related items relevant to the activities located in the Region.
• Providing direction, training and support to the reporting units located in the Region.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in IT and/or Finance & Accounting oriented study preferably supplemented with a post-graduate certification (e.g. ACCA/CIMA/RA/RE/CPA/EDP or CIA/CISA/RO or Six Sigma Yellow/Green/ Black Belt/ PMP / Prince2 Foundation).
• Minimum 5 years of job relevant experience (in finance, controlling / accounting and reporting) and a solid knowledge base in AkzoNobel GBS or Business Units is considered a plus.
• Strong financial process knowledge in e.g. I2C and R2R processes.
• Competent user of MS Office (mainly Excel) and data analytics tooling with strong analytical skills.
• High concern for quality, accuracy and data.
• Effective communication and collaborative skills, networker, trainer.
• Demonstrated capacity to work effectively with teams from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Absolute ethical integrity leading by example.
• Ability to drive improvements, act as a change agent and have a hands-on mentality.
• Fluent in English.
• Big4 experience is a plus.