Senior Manager, Internal Controls Transformation - EPDM

Job Description
In this leadership role for our European market, you will play a strategic role working with our internal and external business partners to provide oversight for key compliance matters in the zone.
The role requires acting as a key business partner to our internal and external stakeholders, understanding the key business and compliance matters in the zone, developing a risk point of view, determining a course of action to address risks, and working with various level of management for accomplishing the course of actions. This is a leadership position that involves building a compliance presence and communicating across the zone to drive control awareness and accountability.
You will be a key member of the Global Internal Controls team working in a team of talented individuals across the regions that are responsible for ensuring Kraft Heinz meets its business and IT compliance requirements.
Primary Responsibilities
Leadership

• Strong communication and partnership skills to work with senior level leadership on a day-to-day basis
• Ability to be seen as the internal control's leader in the market that various business leaders seek advice from.
• Strong critical thinking skills to examine various business and IT compliance related matters to assess impact and determining a proposed course of action.
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication, leadership, and management to influence a wide range of stakeholders with varying levels of technical understanding.
• Demonstrate strong initiative, program/project management and interpersonal skills, sound decision-making, and intuitive thinking.
• Provide leadership, guidance and coaching to staff, and foster an environment encouraging employee participation, teamwork, and communication.

Operational

• Partner closely with global Kraft Heinz business and IT leaders to evaluate business process transformation, automation, data, and digital risk.
• Understand critical risks in ongoing business processes and IT projects, assess, and advise partners on such risks.
• Partner on business and IT transformation projects to build out the plan for the transformation risk and controls.
• Partner and lead the team on automation/analytics governance program understanding the compliance needs and associate build out of programs.
• Provide risk and compliance expertise in emerging technology inclusive of areas such as cyber, artificial intelligence, robotics, cloud, machine learning, and any applicable third-party risk.
• Develop governance and risk frameworks including identification of applicable risks in the noted process, identify gaps, controls, and recommend action plans.
• Monitor management's progress on recommended action plans. Provide support and expert advice to management during implementation of action plans and ad hoc compliance matters.
• Research and understand external reporting requirements for above noted areas.
• Develop deliverables for reporting to external communication to regulatory agencies.

Qualifications

• A college or university degree in Business/ Information Technology/Computer Information Systems or related field.
• Wide experience in working with senior leadership teams for risk, controls, compliance matters including emerging risk areas.
• Good understanding of risk and compliance management with emphasis and experience in business process, transformation, automation, data, and digital risk areas.
• Experience in developing frameworks, assessing risk and controls, performing gap assessments, and developing recommendations.
• Experience in working with management on developing compliance programs and delivery of such programs.
• Experience in researching new and emerging compliance topics, understanding the associated requirements for company compliance.
• Experience in developing reporting/communication for external compliance reporting.
• Experience in development and delivery of presentations to senior level management.
• Experience in developing action written communications that may be leveraged for internal or external communication.
• Strong analytical, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Ability to adapt and react timely in a fast paced, changing, large, and dynamic work environment.

Professional Attributes

• Interpersonal Skills

• At Kraft Heinz you will easily be exposed to senior management, no matter your level. Therefore, it is important you have excellent communication skills, to deal with all kinds of different partners.

• Analytical

• We are a very data driven company. You know how to translate sophisticated data into a simple solution with your analytical demeanor.

• Result driven
  • You do not only focus on your results, but always do what is best for the company.
• Team player
  • Achieving results is nice but achieving results with the team is simply the best. You are a teammate, which means you are sometimes a leader, sometimes a follower but always working towards the same common goal together with your teammates.

What we offer you:

• An ambitious employer; we only want the best for you.
• A fast career track like only few other companies can match.
• A competitive salary and excellent bonus structure (above market); at KraftHeinz we strongly believe and live by ownership and meritocracy.
• A hybrid working model; because we believe the future of work is based on a building modern, adaptable, and agile workplace culture. 3 days from our office and 2 days from home with additional 20 days per year to work from anywhere you want!
• Last and not least; there are always room for new insights: If you have an idea, please let us know, and we can set it in action!

Location(s)
Amsterdam, London - The Shard
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.