Senior Manager Internal Control

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Adidas Full time

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation
- This position is responsible for risk management and internal control in South Africa. This includes assurance and compliance audits of all back-office functions dependant on requirements by local SLT and EM IC & PP Director. Ability to build a general understanding of risk management principles, control environment best practices required for the market, fraud prevention and good corporate governance advice through proactive consulting and engagement with business partners.
In this role, the primary objectives are the protection of company assets; ensure effectiveness and efficiency of operations, reliability of financial reporting and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Risk management, Profit Protection and Compliance are other focus areas of this position that aims at supporting the achievement of qualitative and sustainable growth through good corporate governance practices and the avoidance of financial losses or damages caused by non-compliant behaviour and management of all types of risk to levels that are in line with Group risk appetite.
- Key Responsibilities
1.Internal Control
- Prepare an annual Risk & Internal Control Plan (RICP) in line with review and approval by the Director Internal Control & Profit Protection and alignment with local Finance Director
- Coordinate the end-to-end execution of the RICP as planned and maintain effective communication with the Director IC&PP on RIC issues and progress of field work
- Design, test, amend and review new/existing RIC testing procedures as requested and required by local management and functional heads
- Agree action plan, deadlines and responsibilities with department Heads & ensure timely implementation of RIC recommendations reported and presented to control owners and senior management.
- Present and contribute as required in Management meetings, Finance & Functional Updates, Quarterly Commercial Compliance meetings, Bi-Annual Audit Risk & Compliance Committee meetings
- Coordinate the execution of both Emerging Markets and Group Policies & Internal Controls initiatives (e.g., Annual ICS testing, UAR, EM IC & PP Strategic Objectives)
- Drive and proactively support Emerging Market cross-countries initiatives, in line with the Market priorities and EM IC & PP team objectives
- Responsibility for preparation and leading Corporate Internal Audits planned for the market
- Timely resolution of all audit/Internal Control findings as identified by Corporate Internal Audit and Group Internal Control
- Work in close relation with market and local management team to review, improve, document, automate and harmonize processes
- Collaboration and active support to drive EM South Profit Protection objectives, responsibilities and executions.
- Ensuring involvement, exposure and development opportunities for EM South Profit Protection to support on Internal Control objectives, projects, investigations and reviews.
- 2.Risk Management
- As the Risk Coordinator, maintain the country’s risk register in line with Group Risk Management guidelines & requirements
- Timely submission of the Risk & Opportunity Assessment to the EM Risk Management coordinator on a bi-annual basis
- Ultimately responsible for developing and implementing risk mitigating actions within area by thoroughly understanding the cause and effect of each risk.
- Identify and evaluate current controls and other already implemented mitigating measures.
- Consider and evaluate the implementation of additional risk mitigating measures (planned mitigating actions) taking into account the cost/benefit relation.
- Continuously monitor existing and potential risk areas and verifying the adequacy and effectiveness of the handling strategy and/or implemented mitigating actions.
- 3.Compliance
- Advise and consult on Group Policy changes impacting local functions and ensure local policy and practices are revised frequently and as required by Group or Local guidance’s.
- Support business partners in identifying, analysing, evaluating and managing compliance risks and if applicable, required to be disclosed in bi-annual risk reporting
- Support compliance investigations conducted by the EM Regional Compliance Officer, Legal Director and address fraudulent/risk related control remediations with urgency as per recommendations.
- Serve as an independent contact for any employee wishing to report a suspected or detected compliance violation for escalation to EM Regional Compliance Officer, Legal Director and Director IC & PP.

Internal stakeholders
- Emerging Markets South General Manager
- All Emerging Markets South Directors: Finance, Supply Chain Management Operations, Retail (DTC), eCom, Wholesale (WHS), Legal, Brand Marketing, HR, IT, Export, Franchise, etc.)
- Audit Risk & Compliance Committee
- Emerging Markets Regional Compliance Officer, EM Profit Protection
- Emerging Markets South Profit Protection and Key Control Owners (Senior Mana



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