Head of Internal Audit, Americas

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Req ID:15916 

Head of Internal Audit, Americas is responsible for maintaining and strengthening internal control in the Americas Region through leading internal audit and J-SOX activities. This position is to report to the Head of International Internal Audit (IIA) to align with Fujitsu HQ’s direction, but will also have dotted line report to the Chief Legal & Commercial Officer, Americas for local coordination.

  The key responsibilities of this position are as follows:

•   Highlighting and documenting significant risks in the business and in the internal processes of the Americas Region;

•   Leading internal audit and J-SOX activities (including ITAC & ITGC) in the region such as audit/evaluation planning, execution, compiling reports, explanation to auditees/management, and follow-up for remediation; and

•   Pursuing more efficiency through the synergy of internal audit/J-SOX, the data-analytics based audit, while aligning with FJ HQ directions.

Key Performance Indicators:

• To give practical and effective advice to auditees/business process owners for the improvement of processes and business activities and meet the KPIs set by Head of IIA, which may include input from the Chief Legal & Commercial Officer, Americas.

• Communicate significant risk and necessary countermeasures to regional management/HQ management to support them to fulfil their management oversight obligations.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• A professionally recognized qualification in internal audit and/or SOX (J-SOX or US SOX).

• More than five year’s experiences of internal audit and SOX (J-SOX or US SOX)

• Experience in undertaking full responsibility of projects and of coordination with other relevant department

• Profound and diversified knowledge of primary business functions (Sales, IT service delivery, and manufacturing) and related financial & accounting processes

• Basic knowledge of ERP (SAP) and its functions of modules

• Supervision of staff

• Fluent in English (abilities in other languages are a plus)

Desired Experience & Knowledge:

• CPA or Management Accounting Degree
• Experiences of financial accounting or management accounting (preferred)
• CIA (Certified Internal Auditor)
• Actual Work Experiences in Functions such as Sales, Delivery, or Logistics is helpful

At Fujitsu, one of our corporate principles is "We respect human rights." This principle underpins our corporate and individual activities and guides the actions of every Fujitsu Group member. We embrace diversity and equal opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.  By empowering people, we can unleash our collective strengths to create a better experience for our employees, our customers, and our partners.

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