Business Assurance Specialist

Miejsce pracy: Kraków

Your responsibilities

• Imperial Brands, an inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees is looking for a Business Assurance Specialist. This role will be responsible for providing a wide range of assurance activities through executing independent testing of pre-defined control activities or coordinating and reviewing testing performed by others (e.g. local retained testing) and as such this role is key to the Group’s approach to Integrated Assurance.
• In addition, this role will support local and cluster management with ensuring the appropriate implementation of the Group’s minimum control requirements to ensure the Group’s internal control framework is appropriately localised as well as supporting with the identification of any locally specific control requirements.
• The role requires key stakeholder management across a significant area of the Group’s operations, to provide as well as facilitate consistent and comprehensive assurance over key controllable risks and be a trusted partner to 1st Line leadership as well as a trusted provider of consistent and transparent assurance.
• Principle Accountabilities:
• Establish the appropriate baseline control scope for retained operations in scope of this role.
• Support the localisation of Group policies and standards within retained operations as well as the implementation of control activities in retained processes and maintain related procedures.
• Maintain the local schedule of authority on behalf of local management.
• Support the control dispensation process across the operational area in scope.
• Actively participate in the annual assurance planning process across the full GBS Compliance CoC scope and execute the annual compliance testing programme for operations in scope of this role.
• Perform specific monitoring control activities as relevant as well as track and follow-up on any assurance activities performed by other assurance providers.
• Coordinate specific local assurance activities by retained experts in the areas of OHSE, Third-Party logistics and Data Privacy, including the follow-up of any identified weaknesses.
• Provide relevant and insightful reporting to internal customers in terms of the level of compliance achieved, remedial actions being put in place and any mitigation to address identified risk exposures.

Our requirements

• Good understanding of accounting standards/principles as well tax and statutory reporting.
• Significant experience in internal or external auditing / internal control compliance.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to follow schedules and determination to achieve goals.
• Great logical thinking and analytical and report writing skills to visualize data in insightful ways.
• Ability to develop broad, cooperative relationships with diverse stakeholders and colleagues with multicultural background across multiple countries.
• Positive, proactive, and solution-oriented approach to work, the desire for continued self-development, confidence in dealing with others.
• Genuine passion and enthusiasm for compliance and business assurance activities.
• English fluent, both spoken and written.

What we offer

• In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and many extras including a great pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement and hybrid/flexible working opportunities as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.
• Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants.

Benefits

• private medical care
• life insurance
• flexible working time
• fruits
• integration events
• mobile phone available for private use
• computer available for private use
• leisure zone
• extra social benefits
• sharing the commuting costs
• employee referral program
• charity initiatives
• extra leave
• remote work opportunities – 50/50 hybrid
• Shopping coupons (cafeteria system)

Imperial Brands

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

Location: Kraków, PL

Posted Date: 10/17/2024