Manager - Internal Controls - Healthcare/Manufacturing Business - CA

About Team: This role will be part of the Internal Controls team. This team is responsible for understanding the processes, creating SOPs and ensuring adherence to them, identifying and executing process improvement initiatives, ensuring adequate controls are in place for all the business processes and ensure strict compliance at an organizational level. This role has multiple opportunities to innovate and improve overall business process leading to cost / time savings.

Role Purpose: Responsible for driving better internal controls, compliances & process improvements across different functions of the organization.

Role & Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

Internal Controls:

- Drive, plan, organize and execute the Internal Controls for the organization

- Conduct risk assessment of all departments/ functions

- Report risk management issues and internal controls deficiencies to the CFO / Company leadership team and provide recommendations for improving the organization's operations

- Evaluate compliance with existing policies and procedures; identify and propose modifications / improvements as needed

- Provide responses to internal audit queries to ensure that recommendations are implemented and all action items are resolved

- Evaluate information security and associated IT risk exposures

- Support company's anti-fraud programs

- Drive Inventory control process and suggest ways to improve warehouse operations efficiency

Compliance

- Drive strict adherence to compliance at country level

- Evaluate compliance issues/concerns within the organization

- Ensure Board of Directors, management and employees are compliant with rules and regulations of authorities and ensure that behavior meets the company's Standards of Conduct

Process Improvement:

- Identify, plan and execute projects to improve quality, reduce cost, increase productivity and improve cycle time by reducing wasted time, scrap, rework, etc. resulting in significant business process improvement and customer satisfaction

- Serve as a conduit for best practice sharing

- Train teams on process improvement methodology as per company norms

- Document all important processes using SOPs & ensure implementation of finalized SOPs and Approval matrix

Candidate Requirement:

Education & Experience levels:

- Qualified Chartered Accountant well-versed with Indian GAAP and U.S. GAAP

- In-depth knowledge of applicable regulatory requirements, accounting procedures

- Advanced work experience and proficiency with excel, SAP, JDE

- Proven experience in process improvement

Nature of experience:

- Have worked in a matrix / multi-reporting structured organisation, preferably in a U.S based MNC.

- Experience in writing internal policies and procedures and process evaluation and documentation

- A demonstrated knowledge of & experience in internal controls & legal compliances

Skills:

- Strong analytical skills

- Detail oriented and ability to work and interpret figures and other financial information

- Strong written and oral communication skills

- Ability to demonstrate a professional and objective perspective at all times

- Excellent commercial and financial awareness

- A 'can-do' attitude and resilient character with the ability to manage expectations

- The flexibility and independence to work in a changing environment.

- Ability to work independently

- Strong interpersonal capabilities and ability to work cross-functionally

- A methodical and structured approach to problem solving

- Understanding of project plans and an ability to manage own / team time