Internal Control Manager

The purpose of this role is to implement and maintain a robust control environment at Ford's South African operations. This involves maintaining effective internal controls, supporting and facilitating regular meetings with finance and operational management, and communicating control issues and trends to stakeholders. The successful candidate will have a strong background in internal auditing, accounting, or finance, with experience in leadership or managerial roles. They will also possess excellent analytical and decision-making skills, as well as strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain an effective, efficient, and sustainable internal control environment to ensure appropriate controls are in place.
• Support and/or facilitate regular meetings with finance and operational management to communicate, track, and report on corporate control metrics.
• Cascade control issues, trend data, new policies, updated approval authorities, emerging issues, and best practices.
• Develop, deploy, and monitor the Sarbanes-Oxley (S-Ox) compliance plan through the control testing campaign (MCRP) process.
• Manage and report identified control deficiencies, including facilitating training sessions for functional skill team leaders.
• Facilitate the development of operation identified comments (OIC) and corrective action plans to provide sustainable resolution of identified control deficiencies.
• Report and follow up on identified control deficiencies.
• Facilitate interpretation of global policies and procedures to ensure compliance.
• Perform and assess process reviews, evaluate controls, map processes, and report findings.
• Maintain and coordinate working relationships and complementary control activities with partners.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master's degree with professional certifications (e.g., certified internal auditor, chartered accountant, certified public accountant).
• At least 3-5 years of leadership/managerial experience in internal/external audit, accounting, or finance positions.
• Analyzing and decision-making skills.
• Analyzing and documenting process flows and making recommendations to improve controls and processes.
• Ford finance, accounting, and operational systems knowledge.
• Experience in various Ford finance, accounting, and manufacturing organizations.
• Auditing and/or control environment experience.
• Analytical approach and strong decision-making and judgment skills.
• Advance Excel and presentation skills.
• Must have knowledge of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (S-Ox).
• Understanding of automotive industry and manufacturing.

Preferred qualifications:

• Leading discussions across organizations.
• Interpersonal and active listening skills.
• Working in unfamiliar and unstructured environments.
• Ability to present to senior management up to and including corporate president level.
• Ability to manage independently a diverse workload ensuring effective prioritization.
• Adaptable and persuasive with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Unimpeachable level of integrity and accountability.
• Strong motivational and self-starter characteristics with a drive for results.
• Understanding of the importance of quality and the philosophy of continuous improvement.
• Analytical approach and strong decision-making and judgment skills.
• Pays attention to detail.