Head of Group Corporate Assurance recruitment

BASED IN MALAYSIA - KUALA LUMPUR with the regional reach: Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Australia, New Zealand and some African European countries. 

Our client is one of Malaysia‘s leading multinational businesses involved in a number of core sectors with operations in over 20 countries throughout the world.
 
Reporting to the audit committee and CEO, you will oversee the internal audit / corporate assurance function for the Group, ensuring the group wide compliance of policies and procedures.
 
Key business areas include ensuring that all of the major risks that could affect the Group have been identified and managed as well as developing and coordinating strategies and work plans for a continuous improvement to the Group’s control environment. 
 
Stake holder management is an important part of the role and you must report on the status of control environment existing within the group to the respective committees, i.e. Board and Audit Committees, including reporting, advising and presenting the findings on how effectively the Group is operating.
 
Future challenges for the role include moving the group to a more global perspective (i.e. less Malaysian centric in decision making) incorporating best practices in line with the diversity of the business. You need to instil the awareness to change across the business acting as a change agent to Directors of the Group, employees and aligning the stakeholders.
 
The appointed candidate will have had international exposure (preferably outside of AP region i.e. UK, Australia/New Zealand, USA, South Africa) as well as the ability to manage projects and large teams. This role requires extensive travel throughout Asia and Europe. Experience within the core business sectors including plantations and energy utilities will be an added advantage.
 
The successful person must have relevant experience to corporate assurance / internal audit / External Audit; and an operational background in the key core sectors that the business operates.