Description
The Asset Control Business Partner and Global Process Owner (GPO) role will be responsible for supporting strategy sessions, process deployment, and execution of end to end asset controls processes. This includes maintaining a strong control environment, effective policies and procedures, and a robust audit process.
The GPO plays an important role in the overall asset productivity and control strategy, driving transformation by aligning the organization, changing behavior while reinforcing the overall culture around asset controls and inventory audits. The GPO will do this by establishing close working relationships with leaders throughout their processes’ functions and with business users.
As an Asset Control Business Partner, this role is also responsible for providing assurance around planning, management, and execution of the annual Customer Stock Audit processes while reinforcing preventive, corrective, and detective controls, this with the objective of reducing audit variances and assure confidence around audit results.
Ensures continuous process improvement as well as Current Best Approach and Best practice adoption across the regions.
Key accountabilities include:
1. Manage Brambles Internal Audit and/or external audit inquiries regarding asset controls and hire stock audits
2. Lead the development of the annual audit plan for the region
3. Develop the annual stock take plan that demonstrates effective coverage and considers cyclical coverage and exposure
4. Execute the annual stock take plan through a partnership with Sales, Customer Service, third party inventory service providers, and customers
5. Conduct monthly Leadeship reviews of customer inventory audit progress against targets, facilitating discussions, disseminate information, and develop and maintain scorecards
6. Enforce inventory audits policies and procedures. Identify internal and external risks that effect the ability to comply with Brambles policies.
7. Ensures that preventive, corrective, and detective risk controls are in place
8. Lead a culture of proactive asset control and risk management
9. Provides support, education and training to the organization around inventory controls and audits principles and methodologies
Track team performance, monthly review of team members KPIs, including developmental goals. Experience providing timely and effective feedback to team members.
Qualifications:
Essential Qualifications
10. Bachelor's degree in business, finance, supply chain or related field
11. 7-10 years related experience in internal audit, inventory and asset controls
5-7 years’ experience managing direct reports
Experience:
12. Minimum bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, finance, accounting or related field
13. 10+ years of Supply Chain, Asset Controls, Inventory Audits experience
14. Ability to work in a dynamic environment with changing priorities, demonstrated ability to anticipate next steps, take initiative, exercise discretion and apply sound judgment
15. Demonstrated project management skills and process simplification experience
16. Advance knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including but not limited to array formulas, pivot tables, lookup, and VBA macros
17. Experience using statistical sampling, estimation and extrapolation
18. Strong people development, team building and leadership skills
19. Perform adhoc analysis using data reporting tools
20. Proven ability to develop analytical models, build and validate inventory variance methodologies, and financial analyses
21. Demonstrated ability to facilitate discussions, disseminate information, update leadership team, and develop and maintain performance scorecards.
Skills and Knowledge:
22. Solid understanding of Inventory Controls principles
23. Solid understanding of Inventory Audit process
24. Solid understanding of Supply Chain and other business-related processes
25. Finance background with understanding of Financial Statements
26. Internal audit and risk management
27. Leverage data analytics
28. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
29. Advanced Excel / PowerPoint / Word skills
30. Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively to meet deadlines
31. Strategic and critical thinker, can anticipate & provide scenarios for different situations
Strong people development and leadership skills
English and Spanish.
Preferred Education
Degree and equivalent - Business Administration/Management
Preferred Level of Work Experience
7 - 10 years
Remote Type
Hybrid Remote
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