JSOX Co-ordinator at Bridgestone South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Job Purpose

The purpose of the role is to review all internal processes, systems and policies and make recommendations to ensure the risk to the business is minimised with a view to delivering improvements by advising, coaching and facilitating in order to not undermine the responsibility of management.

Internal controls consists of all the measures taken by the organization for the purpose of; (1) protecting its resources against waste, fraud, and inefficiency; (2) ensuring accuracy and reliability in accounting and operating data; (3) securing compliance with the policies of the organization; and (4) evaluating the level of performance in all organizational units of the organization.

This role will work closely with counterparts in the wider Bridgestone Group to standardize and implement controls on a local level. The role will also be responsible for the quarterly and annual reporting of JSox controls and mapping local controls processes and the identification of the control gaps identified during this process.

Main responsibilities

• Reporting on JSOX implementation for the Group, including the self-testing on a periodical basis
• Mapping of the controls processes within the business and identifying the gaps
• Maximizes return on financial assets by establishing financial policies, procedures, controls, and reporting systems.
• Prepares special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Conduct risk assessment of all departments
• Evaluate compliance with existing policies and procedures, identifying and proposing modifications as needed
• Review the responses to internal and external audit management letter queries to ensure that recommendations are implemented and ensure that all action items are resolved

Required capabilities

•  Technical Knowledge: Developing standards, Analyzing information,
• A demonstrated knowledge of internal controls
• Soft Skills: Individual; adaptation to changes, innovation, analytical thought, initiative, stress tolerance; Task; problem solving, organization and planning, details-standards-quality, results orientation, Social; teamwork, effective communication, social skills, customer orientation, negotiation., Management; people management, leadership, decision making, strategic vision.

Education

• Bcom degree

Experience

• 3 - 5 years experience in implementation and testing controls
• Internal/external auditing experience
• Experience in writing internal policies and procedures and process evaluation and documentation