Internal Control and Risk Management Manager

Location Tokyo
Discipline Accounting & Finance
Job type Permanent
Salary Negotiatable
Reference 48197

Company Overview

French luxury fashion brand

 

Main Responsibilities

Internal Control and Risk Management Manager

Build a solid, integrated, interdependent, intelligent risk management program and internal control system, embed the ownership and culture, therefore protect the brand and safeguard company reputation and assets

 

Risk Management

  • Play a leading role for Japan Risk Oversight Committee by coordinating the annual enterprise risk assessment process to development and review of the Global Integrated Risk Management framework for Japan

  • Engage closely with relevant local Executive Committees to develop a deeper understanding of regional risk appetite and risk profile; execute a prioritization of key risks for embedding an integrated and adapted risk management program.

  • Develop a strong business partnership with local functions and divisions to ensure a highly collaborative working partnership, bringing transparency to the identification of strategic, operational, legal & compliance, cybersecurity, and people risk given the local risk specificities and developing methods to demonstrate robust coverage for systems, processes, and associated risks.

  • Be a conductor of risk awareness initiatives: ensuring the business continuity plan and other disaster recovery in place and up to date, plans are periodically review and tested promoting a culture of proactive risk management, helping embed our operational model and communicating frequently to ensure enthusiasm, support, and progress for integrated risk management across the organization.

  • Closely liaise with the global Risk Management Officer as a point of contact for IRM topics for

 

Internal Control

a) Policies and Procedures

  • Develop policy update/development plan with line manager and business owners

  • Follow up on execution of policy update/development plan with policy owners to ensure timely development/update of policies and procedures according to plan

  • Assist policy owners on policy update/development, training and communication

  • Conduct quality check of policy draft to ensure draft is up to quality standard

  • Organize release of policies and keep record of China policies and procedures

b) New and Existing Process Review

  • Plan and conduct process review to identify internal control issues/improvement opportunities and solutions and occasionally test the effectiveness of the control.

  • Advise the local functions and divisions as they review their internal processes and control environments to identify, assess, treat, monitor, and report on risk exposures.

c) Internal Audit Support

  • Provide coordination and other assistances on internal audit projects

  • Support business process owners to review and confirm the audit risk and action plans

  • Follow up on internal audit reports and ensure timely closure of issues 

 

Insurance

  • Manages annual insurance renewal process in liaise with the Global Insurance Team, providing the financial information.

  • As the Japan Insurance coordinator, becomes a point of contact for global and local for all internal locations including retail to report and escalate any incident relating to company assets and products.

  • Becomes a point of contact for the local insurance agents, companies, and underwriters for Japan.

 

Key Requirements

  • BA degree or above

  • CIA or CPA qualification a plus

  • 5-10 years of Internal Audit / Internal Control / Risk Management experience with an international audit firm and/or with a multinational company

  • Working experience at insurance industry is a big plus

  • Industrial experience at luxury/retail/FCG industry is a plus

  • Profound knowledge of best practices in internal control/internal audit and policy & procedures

  • Native Japanese and fluent in English