Regional Compliance Manager Asia Pacific

Key Accountabilities

Auditing - independently investigate and act on matters, including the design and execution of internal investigations, validation and implementation of appropriate corrective actions. These investigations may focus on:

• Identifying leakages in business processes and limiting exposure to fraud

• Financial audits e.g. cashflow management, accounting, book-keeping, etc.

• SCM e.g. procurement, tendering, controls of and recording of physical movement of goods in and out of plants/quarries, warehouses; customer billing, logistics models assessment etc.

• Operations e.g. material flow, inventory recording, recovery rates from quarries etc.

• Sales e.g. sales force assessment, customer evaluations, pricing models, distributor management, credit terms and enforcement, etc.

• HR e.g. salary base analysis, hiring processes, legal compliance in payroll, employment contract structure, etc.

• Ad-hoc, fraud, whistleblowing investigations, value for money analysis etc.

Governance & Compliance - in coordination with connected stakeholders, evaluate and establish governance standards and implement procedures to ensure that RAP compliance programs are effective and efficient in identifying, preventing and correcting non-compliances with internal policies, local regulatory frameworks and risk landscape.

• Perform continuous risk assessment at Regional and Area, Country level. Monitor implementation of corrective actions to address or minimize risk exposure.

• Develop, coordinate and deploy effective educational and awareness programs.

• Report all deviations and build up a knowledge base for further development/improvement of compliance.

• Maintain safe and non-intimidating mode of escalation for employees to report serious non-compliances through Omya whistleblowing hotline or any other channels, including but not limited to fraud. Perform and supervise investigations into reported matters including reporting and closure of corrective actions.

Internal Controls – support regional Internal Control Owner in establishing robust and effective internal control environment.

• Participate in Regional Conferences and other forums whenever required to visibly promote compliance initiates and lessons learned.

• Effective participation in Internal Compliance and Audit Collaboration initiatives.

People Management

• Effectively lead Compliance team in the Region to ensure practical value add to the business (i.e. lead, manage and develop Compliance team by setting and monitoring objectives, training and development, recruitment, performance review and mentoring). Establish proper training and education to ensure adequately skilled teams.

• Create a talent management process in coordination with HR to ensure that the right resources are in place. Monitor and stimulate team spirit.

Stakeholders Management

• Effective and efficient stakeholders management at all levels within Organization to enable successful business partnership and visible value add of compliance function to business.

Shared Responsibilities:

• All above shared with Regional CFO, respective AREA/Country/JV Finance director/Head of finance.

Excluded Responsibilities:

• All operations responsibilities.

Others

• Contribute to a positive and harmonious work place culture which aligns with the Omya Values (Modesty, Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance).

• All employees are required to take immediate action to control and report Environmental, Health Safety, Quality risks and prevent incidents.

• All employees are to pro-actively participate in cross-functional duties when required.

Education
University (Degree) or Higher in Business, Finance and/or Chartered Accountancy/ Certified Auditor Qualification and/or equivalent

Solid line(s) to
Head of Group Compliance and Audit

Dotted line(s) to
Legal Counsil – Asia Pacific

Number of direct reports
2 (depending on region)

Number of total reports
n/a

Number of dotted line(s) reports
n/a

Performance Measures

• To be defined based on Compliance and Audit plan scope but may include:

  • Successful execution of audit engagements

  • Effective roll out of compliance, governance initiatives, education campaigns etc.

  • Project Initialization and value generation of the project(s)

  • Process adherence Scorecard

Other requirements

• Excellent command of both oral and written English is required.

• Readiness to travel frequently within the Region Asia Pacific and occasionally beyond.

Internal contacts

• Group Audit

• Group Controlling, IT and BPI

• Regional, Area and Country Management teams

• Compliance and Legal Peers and Counsels

• Internal Competency Centres

External contacts

• External service providers e.g. auditors, forensic consultants etc.

• External Legal Counsels

Experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience in Business Consultancy / Controlling / Audit with proven track record or equivalent Operational experience.

• Relevant working experience with multinational companies.

• Solid team management/leadership and change management experience.

Knowledge and skills

• Excellent knowledge of business, operational and Mining processes.

• Effective ability to adapt and learn on the fly.

• Excellent knowledge of business internal control framework (procedures, standards methodology) and risk management systems.

• Excellent understanding of corporate governance and business ethics.

• Effective understanding of business strategy and needs.

• Effective project management and team leading skills in global environment with both internal and external stakeholders .

• Strong ability to deliver professional and quality results .

• Strong analytical and change management skills.

• Out of the box thinking and good solution provider.

• Ability to balance priorities and result driven.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills across different cultures.

• Familiar with SAP systems.