Jsox Co-ordinator

**JSOX Co-ordinator**:
**POSITION SNAPSHOT**:

- JobReq ID: 49010- Type of work: On site- Type of contract: Open-ended/permanent- Full/Part Time: Full time- Location: Johannesburg, ZA**OUR COMPANY**:
Bridgestone in Europe, CIS, Middle East, India and Africa (BSEMIA), headquartered in Zaventem (Belgium), is a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation, a global leader providing sustainable mobility and advanced solutions.

In addition to our premium tire products, we offer a growing portfolio of tire-centric and mobility solutions. Together with our partners and guided by "Serving Society with Superior Quality”, that has been our mission since Shojiro Ishibashi founded Bridgestone in 1931, we are working to accelerate sustainable mobility innovations and solutions. Through innovative technology, we are committed to easier, safer, smoother and seamless mobility for our society and customers improving how people move, live, work and play.

Bridgestone also benefits from a significant retail network throughout the region - in fact our retail presence in the EMIA region is the largest in the tire industry. Through 17 distinct retail partners, we have around 3,500 outlets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as around 2,500 outlets through our partner network in India. This network offers a selection of services, concepts and mobility solutions.

At Bridgestone we pride ourselves on the strong relationships we maintain with everyday drivers and this extensive retail network is one of the core reasons why.

In line with the “Bridgestone Essence”, our work environment is based on integrity and teamwork, where everyone can learn from each other and contribute with their own ideas in achieving the coming goals.

We want to hear from people who can take the challenge, unleash their creative potential and contribute to the company success demonstrating ownership, courage and agility. We want you to develop your skills, expand your knowledge and be proud of your work.

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**Job Purpose**:
The purpose of the role is to review all internal processes, systems and policies and make recommendations to ensure the risk to the business is minimised with a view to delivering improvements by advising, coaching and facilitating in order to not undermine the responsibility of management.

Internal controls consists of all the measures taken by the organization for the purpose of; (1) protecting its resources against waste, fraud, and inefficiency; (2) ensuring accuracy and reliability in accounting and operating data; (3) securing compliance with the policies of the organization; and (4) evaluating the level of performance in all organizational units of the organization.

This role will work closely with counterparts in the wider Bridgestone Group to standardize and implement controls on a local level. The role will also be responsible for the quarterly and annual reporting of JSox controls and mapping local controls processes and the identification of the control gaps identified during this process.

**Main responsibilities**
- Reporting on JSOX implementation for the Group, including the self-testing on a periodical basis
- Mapping of the controls processes within the business and identifying the gaps
- Maximizes return on financial assets by establishing financial policies, procedures, controls, and reporting systems.
- Prepares special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
- Conduct risk assessment of all departments
- Evaluate compliance with existing policies and procedures, identifying and proposing modifications as needed
- Review the responses to internal and external audit management letter queries to ensure that recommendations are implemented and ensure that all action items are resolved

**Required capabilities**
- Technical Knowledge: Developing standards, Analyzing information,
- A demonstrated knowledge of internal controls
- Soft Skills: Individual; adaptation to changes, innovation, analytical thought, initiative, stress tolerance; Task; problem solving, organization and planning, details-standards-quality, results orientation, Social; teamwork, effective communication, social skills, customer orientation, negotiation., Management; people management, leadership, decision making, strategic vision.

**Education**
- Bcom degree

**Experience**
- 3 - 5 years experience in implementation and testing controls
- Internal/external auditing experience
- Experience in writing internal policies and procedures and process evaluation and documentation

**Why should you apply?**:

- We are passionate about our people and want to offer them the opportunity to develop and grow.
- Bridgestone as a global company drives your career to the next level by offering you possibilities to work in an international setting.
- You will have the opportunity to work with leading technologies.
- We help you to drive your career path onward and upward work in a culture of feedback that recognizes