Internal Controls Leader - GE Africa Job

Essential Responsibilities The Internal Controls Leader’s specific roles & responsibilities include:
- Define & implement across all GE businesses & Corporate Audit Staff (“CAS”) the coordinated, efficient, risk-prioritized approach to the internal audit coverage of the region, managing adequate cyclical coverage of high risk cycles but avoiding duplication of efforts between the audit teams.
To achieve this, you will need to be a pragmatic leader, leveraging your influencing skills across a team of dotted-line reports to whom you will need to “sell” the prioritization of regional risks & thus the focus of their audit teams.
- Lead the monitoring of the key, cross-business internal controls across GE Africa managing your team of both direct and indirect reports to ensure that they cover all key risks & are operating effectively & efficiently
Partner with GE Africa Asst Ops Controller, CAS (Corporate Audit Staff) & the businesses’ Internal Audit Teams operating in SSA to address the key regional risks in the Region
- Own the external auditors’ audit relationships across audits of the SSA entities. This includes driving compliance, optimal efficiency, timeliness & cost-worthiness of the external audits
As part of this objective, you will be expected to hold regular weekly meetings with the external auditors’ regional coordinating partners, to conclude fee discussions for SSA based audited entities, discuss how to make the audits more efficient and to provide guidance on the audit process to the local Statutory reporting teams
- Transition the “outlier” legal or management entities into having a rigorous external audit assessment process (especially important for recently acquired entities)
- Own the process around approval of discretionary audits in the region where required
- Have responsibility for the approval of any audit fee overruns in any business in GE Africa
- Drive the rollout of the new (2012) external auditor Management Letter Point process. Ensure that the results of this exercise are included in the overall consolidated risk matrix for SSA.
- Partner with the GE Africa Ops Controller to develop process in SSA, ensuring best practice sharing and consistency checks across all 12 GGO regions.
- Rigorously drive simplification in GE’s Operational Controllership across GE Africa
- Participate in regular tollgate reviews with the various SSA project teams where key projects are in place.
-Report progress on projects and provide inputs into key Controllership dashboards for presentation to GE Africa CFO, Ops Controller & others.
-Work with HR, training & other Finance organizations to recruit, develop, retain & mentor Controllership talent in Africa for Africa.
-Provide project and other updates at regional Controllership conferences

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