Job Description:
Role: Financial Operations Manager - Governance & Controls
Business Unit: Royal Canin India
Location: Mumbai
Job Purpose:
This is a crucial position playing an integral role in fulfilling our vision of providing world-class governance and Financial Operation.
The role will work on business processes to
1. Understand and enhance internal control environments,
2. Find the risk, re-engineer the process, and mitigate the risk
3. Re-engineering the process for operational and financial efficiencies
4. To find if there are any statutory or other non-compliances and to remediate the same.
Key Responsibilities:
Ensure a strong tone at the top and a Governance culture within the Business.
Lead and conduct reviews, and keep the Leadership team apprised on progress, reporting observations, and monitoring corrective action plans.
Manage the Internal Controls agenda for India Business Unit including partnering with x- functional team to optimize the internal controls environment through design, training, monitoring, and testing.
Drive strong controls and compliance environment by ensuring if internal controls are adequate to manage risk and compliance with policies including compliance with Mars Internal Controls
Excellence Framework and Finance Manual.
Develop and implement strategies for process improvement, considering both operational excellence and financial improvement. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, design new processes, and ensure successful implementation.
Contribute to a strong controls and compliance environment by providing assessment of our policy and controls effectiveness and organizational compliance.
Serve as a sought-out expert with the ability to evaluate unique/ complex business control process and to develop a comprehensive internal control framework.
Ensure risk-based procedures are devised to adequately assess all significant business and operational risks.
Lead and participate in Global and Regional Governance projects as may be required.
Manage and co-ordinate internal controls review, interim audit, and year-end audit for the Unit including Mars Internal Audits and remediation plan.
Utilize functional skills to train and develop other associates in the area and other managers within the business.
Job Specifications/Qualifications:
Educational & Professional Qualifications: CA with 3+ years’ experience in Internal Audit/ Risk Advisory/ Governance & Control roles.
Proven track record of Process improvement with a collaborative approach towards implementing the corrective action plans and strengthening the control’s structure.
Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.