Regional Internal Control Senior Specialist

Company Description

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.

Job Description

Role Purpose: The Internal Control Department (ICD) of Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) is responsible for minimizing internal control failure risk, with a primary focus on trading activity (TTC) in China.  The Internal Control Senior Specialist supports the Internal Control Manager in daily activities around  process monitoring, innovation, projects with focus on monitoring , and escalation of key risks - including Global initiatives.  This role is based in Shanghai.

Key Responsibilities:

• Within his/her scope, drive the risk & internal control culture & act as guardian of the LDC’s transverse controls, notably around TTC, while supporting risk awareness campaigns.
• Partner with functions, platform and Region management and peers in order to ensure the LDC TTC control framework is in place and is efficiently reducing control risk in conformity with the group standards by (i) leading initiatives & projects focused on risk management & process efficiency,  identifying issues/exception remediations, lessons learned; (ii) pro-actively identifying, assessing & monitoring business risks and incidents as well as best practices, understanding the root causes, recommending innovative solutions to manage such risks and follow-up on the implementation, as well as  analyze exceptions to policy.
•  Support the efficiency and modernization of control processes, particularly linked to the TTC including people, processes and tools.  Reinforce the creation of a robust control environment is in place and that each control has an owner that is aware and able to fulfil the controls assigned to them.
• Suggest solutions for innovation to give a robust control execution – e.g., by partnering with IT, Finance Business Process and Compliance Monitoring departments to deliver technology enhancements (e.g., automation of controls, digitalization).
• Analyze quality reviews & issue recommendations to guarantee strong risk and control execution as well as supporting process reviews to recognize sustainable control upgrades.
• Monitor business risk through interactions with functions & platforms and other channels (e.g., operational losses reporting – e.g. Internal audit findings other monitoring tools and market researches) and continually assess and suggest improvement to the control environment
• Produce reporting tools and key performance metrics to build a system of well-informed business decisions
• Assist in the execution of local or group-wide controls and methodology changes

Qualifications

Qualification/ Required Skills:

• Bachelor degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or other relevant areas of study
• 5-8y years or more experience in complex organization, preferable audit firm or in an internal audit function as auditor
• Working knowledge or strong will to learn quickly how to leverage capacity of Data Analytics software (ACL) in audit works.

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience in either commodity trading house or banking industry or large manufacturing company
• Desirable prior experience in auditing main business cycles: “ trade/order to cash”, “procure to pay”, Maintenance, Capex, Inventory management, Logistics, Production management, EH&S,
• Desirable prior experience or basic knowledge of derivatives trading and hedge accounting
• Ability to leverage on data analytics software capabilities (e.g. ACL) to build robust audit test programs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to deliver high quality, actionable feedback on variety of complex technical issues along the management line
• Advanced Chinese level and proficient in Mandarin
• Fluent in English level
• Able to travel 30% or more
• Professional certification CIA, CPA, FRM or CFA

Additional Information

Additional Information for the job

What We Offer

• A dynamic and stimulating international environment, which embraces diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Learning & development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Insurance systems & schemes.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.

LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Sustainability

Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company

We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us.