Internal Control Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead COC Asia internal controls coordination across regional locations.
• Support SAP go-live readiness for Shanghai and Liabou, including controls over access / SOD, master data, opening balances, reporting, process design, and evidence retention.
• Coordinate regional SOX, DLMC, account reconciliation, task review, and control documentation activities.
• Partner with local plant controllers, regional finance, operations, IT, Shared Services, and Internal Controls leadership to identify and remediate control gaps.
• Support internal and external audit planning, walkthroughs, evidence requests, remediation tracking, and management responses.
• Provide regional training and refresher training on internal controls, reconciliations, close tasks, certification, SAP controls, and evidence expectations.
• Review new key business processes for control design, including contract manufacturing, buy-back flows, vendor processing, inventory ownership, scrap, and repurchase transactions.
• Help establish monitoring routines for high-risk processes, including inventory, contract manufacturing, intercompany, fixed assets / CIP, leases, and close activities.
• Maintain regional issue / remediation tracker with owners, due dates, evidence requirements, and escalation items.
• Serve as the Asia regional point of contact for COC Internal Controls and escalate significant control, audit, certification, or financial reporting risks.

Experiences/Education - Required

Required Years and Area of Experience

• Minimum 6+ years of relevant work experience in finance, controllership, external audit, internal audit, internal controls, SOX, or financial accounting.
• Experience supporting manufacturing finance, plant controllership, regional controllership, or complex operational finance processes preferred.
• Experience coordinating SOX controls, internal / external audit support, control remediation, and process improvement activities.
• Experience working across regions, functions, systems, and cultures preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field required.
• CPA, CIA, or equivalent professional qualification preferred.

Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley, internal controls, financial reporting risks, control documentation, and audit evidence expectations.
• SAP experience required or strongly preferred, especially in manufacturing / plant finance environments.
• Understanding of manufacturing finance processes, including inventory, CIP, fixed assets, intercompany, purchasing, receiving, close, and account reconciliations.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills required. Power BI, Databricks, Power Automate, or other digital / analytics experience preferred.
• Ability to evaluate digital / AI tools, dashboards, and automated processes from a control, access, data validation, and evidence perspective.

Qualifications

• Successful track record of performance in a finance, controllership, audit, or internal controls role.
• Demonstrated ability to lead regional control activities and influence stakeholders without directly owning every process.
• Strong judgment in identifying financial reporting, compliance, operational, and audit risks.
• Ability to assess process design while maintaining a practical business-partner approach.
• Strong communication skills, including ability to summarize issues, risks, and recommendations for regional and segment leadership.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, recurring deadlines, audit requests, remediation actions, and project workstreams.
• Strong process orientation, attention to detail, follow-through, and documentation discipline.

Desired Soft Skills

• Partnership, collaboration, and influence across Finance, Operations, IT, Shared Services, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams.
• Business enablement mindset; able to strengthen controls without creating an audit-policing dynamic.
• Comfortable asking difficult questions, challenging assumptions, and escalating unresolved risk.
• Analytical and strategic thinking; able to connect local process issues to regional scale, materiality, and control risk.
• Self-starting, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast-changing growth environment.
• Ability to coach local finance and process owners on control expectations, evidence quality, and ownership.
• Adaptability, cultural awareness, and ability to work effectively across Asia and global teams.