Risk & Internal Controls SpecialistAt ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions.That's our story. Make it your story.
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Assurance, Risk & Internal Controls Mngr

Your role and responsibilities

-\tDrive and shape a strong control environment in cooperation with the responsible operational management.-\tEvaluate and improve the control environment and operational effectiveness for ABB Service Xiamen COE and ensure compliance with ABB’s policies and procedures.-\tSupport process walkthroughs with responsible process owners to identify control gaps and improvements in pursuit of high-quality risk and control execution.-\tDrive the implementation of standardize processes and controls to simplify and rationalize the internal control environment. Define and implement process automation applications in close cooperation with IS in order to strengthen the control environment and to drive efficiency.-\tSupport for Segregation of Duties (SoD) in and across IT-systems together with business and IT – assessing SoD conflicts, support in designing mitigating controls where SoD conflicts are unavoidable.-\tDrive the remediation and deficiency assessment process and proactively work with the Process and Control owners to define the deficiency root causes and to establish proper remediation plans.-\tResponsible for the implementation of local or group wide methodology changes.-\tPerform quality reviews to ensure high quality level of routine risk and internal control activities per required, including but not limited to provide IC supports when executing internal/external audits, process walkthrough, management testing, self-testing and quarterly process level controls performance confirmation program.

Qualifications for the role

-\tBachelor’s degree in finance and accounting or business administration.-\tMinimum 5 years of working experience in audit or internal control related areas, experience on internal controls over sustainability reporting is a plus.-\tFinance knowledge, audit knowledge, SOX knowledge, process understanding, basic knowledge of SAP. strong audit conceptual knowledge-\tService-oriented mindset; solid commitment to quality and continuous improvement – can do attitude-\tStrong communication skills - both written and oral.-\tStrong analytical & problem-solving skills and an enthusiastic learner and team player.-\tStrong self-learning ability with strong self-drive.-\tFamiliar with data analyst tool is a plus.

More about us

Take your next career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future.At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ+, abilities, ethnicity and generations.Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences.You will be working as Risk & Internal Controls Specialist at ABB Business Services Xiamen COE and be a member of Electrification Internal Controls Community. In this role you will be reporting to the Manager and will be responsible for supporting and facilitating the assessment of financial reporting risks and the design, implementation and maintenance of a high- quality system of internal controls over financial reporting. hybrid