Internal Control Specialist

at  Jacobs Douwe Egberts

Internal Control Specialist
Finance
Auckland
Full-time
New Zealand
Job Description
We are looking for an Internal Control Specialist to join our finance team in our Auckland HQ in East Tamaki. This is a full-time permanent opportunity in an exciting global FMCG company that produces delicious coffee and tea. This role will support the business to manage the internal control environment to ensure key risks are identified and mitigated.

In this role, you will:

• Conduct Internal Control reviews across all key business areas and processes, highlighting opportunities and recommendations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Internal Control.
• Promote compliance awareness to establish strong control culture in the business.
• Work with business to identify risks and establish action plans to mitigate the risks, monitor timely closure of the action plans.
• Ensure adherence to global internal control standards are maintained.
• Ensure appropriate segregation of duties are maintained across the business.
• Preparation of statutory financial statements and other related compliance obligations.
• Manage annual external audit process.
• Manage various tax matters for JDE NZ including the yearly income tax return.
• Be the technical accounting expert in the finance team.

Qualifications

For this Internal Control Specialist role, we’re looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:

• Degree qualification in Accounting or Commerce
• 4-6 years of Accounting/Audit/Tax experience
• Previous audit experience within a CA firm would be preferable
• Experience working with non-finance personnel
• High level of IT literacy, e.g. SAP, SharePoint & Microsoft Excel
• Unrestricted Work Visa

Additional Information

In this role, you will:

• Conduct Internal Control reviews across all key business areas and processes, highlighting opportunities and recommendations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Internal Control.
• Promote compliance awareness to establish strong control culture in the business.
• Work with business to identify risks and establish action plans to mitigate the risks, monitor timely closure of the action plans.
• Ensure adherence to global internal control standards are maintained.
• Ensure appropriate segregation of duties are maintained across the business.
• Preparation of statutory financial statements and other related compliance obligations.
• Manage annual external audit process.
• Manage various tax matters for JDE NZ including the yearly income tax return.
• Be the technical accounting expert in the finance team

For this Internal Control Specialist role, we’re looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:

• Degree qualification in Accounting or Commerce
• 4-6 years of Accounting/Audit/Tax experience
• Previous audit experience within a CA firm would be preferable
• Experience working with non-finance personnel
• High level of IT literacy, e.g. SAP, SharePoint & Microsoft Excel
• Unrestricted Work Vis