Senior Manager, Internal Controls Transformation

Role Overview:

The role requires acting as a key business partner to our internal and external stakeholders for our European market. The Internal Controls Senior Manager will understand 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 team members 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 champion 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.

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.
• 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!

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.