Business Process Internal Control Lead

Aboitiz Foods is an integrated regional food and agribusiness company dedicated to creating a high-performance culture anchored on our time-honored values of Integrity, Teamwork, Innovation, and Responsibility. Through the collective strengths of our subsidiaries, Pilmico and Gold Coin, we believe in sustainably feeding Asia's growth from mill to meal. 

We are constantly improving and optimizing our processes by integrating the value chain around Asia. We leverage our sector expertise and capabilities to deliver quality every time. With our world-class technology and culture of constant innovation, we devote ourselves to serving you better.

At Aboitiz Foods, we embrace change and inspire innovation, leading the way in food and agribusiness solutions. Join us as we shape the future of food in Asia and build a culture where, together, we nourish the future.

Business Process - Internal Control Lead (Manager) is responsible for leading the strategic integration and continuous  improvement of business processes and internal controls to drive process excellence, ensure compliance, and strengthen governance. He/She is also responsible for instituting effective business processes that promote efficiency and excellence across the organization, translating organizational strategies into efficient and well-controlled processes, enabling consistent execution, risk mitigation, and value creation across all functions. He/She champions adherence to process controls and compliance standards to sustain integrity, accountability, and continuous business and operational  performance improvement.

The primary responsibilities of this role include but not limited to:

1. Governance & Risk Mitigation

• Minimized Risk Exposure: Design and embed the Group's System of Internal Controls and Minimum Control Standards into business processes to significantly reduce the organization's overall risk profile.
• Strengthened Compliance: Drive the timely rectification and standardization of all reported Internal Audit findings, non-compliance with MCS and Policies and Procedures (P&P), ensuring root causes are addressed and control gaps are effectively closed.
• Effective Control Development: Ensure that all Country Level P&Ps integrate all necessary process controls and establish robust KPI monitoring mechanisms. Work with Mill/ Country management to develop a change implementation plan in order to fully implement the Group P&Ps.
• Strong Business Process Management Governance:  Guide, coach, and mentor the team in strengthening business process management governance by ensuring that all processes, and controls are properly established and maintained. The documentation is current, compliant with standards, and aligned with the Aboitiz Foods Business Process Architecture (AF BPA) and Risk Control Matrix, while driving adherence to governance cycles and review protocols.

2. Business Process Establishment and Optimization 

• Documented Business Operations: Drive end-to-end business process development for new or existing processes, ensuring these  are fully documented with embedded controls and integrated into the Aboitiz Foods Business Process Architecture (AF BPA) and Risk Control Matrix.
• Maximized Efficiency: Supports process owners in implementing process and control analyses and improvements to enhance efficiency, strengthen compliance, and achieve consistent business performance.
• Sustained Process Discipline: Conducts training for process owners and teams to strengthen their skills and promote a culture of control, quality, and consistent process execution discipline.
• Strong Foundation of Business Operations: Guide, coach, and mentor the team in developing, documenting, and implementing end-to-end business processes aligned with the Aboitiz Foods Business Process Architecture (AF BPA).
• Effective Process Execution and Implementation: Guide, coach, and mentor the team in operationalizing newly designed or re-engineered processes to ensure consistent, efficient, and compliant execution across the organization through partnerships with functional leaders.
• Effective Process Integration and Alignment: Guide, coach, and mentor the team in ensuring alignment of cross-functional teams to integrate processes, risks, and controls seamlessly across the organization, eliminating silos, ensuring consistency, and strengthening governance and decision-making.
• Robust Document Management System: Guide, coach, and mentor the team in maintaining an accurate, audit-ready, and accessible documentation repository by ensuring effective document lifecycle management, version control, and compliance monitoring, enabling transparency and accountability across all business functions.

3. Business Process and Controls Assurance,  Validation and Improvements

• Verified Compliance: Conduct periodic independent reviews,  site visits and discussion with process owners  to verify the efficient and effective compliance to  defined control standards across the operations.
• Continuous Review and Improvement of Process Control Standards: Regularly evaluate and improve  process control standards to ensure they remain effective, efficient, and aligned with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and best practices in order to strengthen operational reliability, risk mitigation, and overall business performance.
• Group Internal Audit Findings Remediation and Improvement:  Oversees the remediation and improvement of Group Internal Audit findings to ensure timely resolution, strengthen control effectiveness, and prevent recurrence through sustainable process and control enhancements.

4. Other Responsibilities

• Support Country Leaders in improving processes and compliance arising from control assessments, audit findings, and performance reviews to ensure alignment with corporate standards and operational excellence.
• Regularly monitor BPIC performance with results being analyzed, acted upon and reported to BPIC Lead and the AC Board as needed.
• Perform other tasks assigned by the BPIC Lead and Internal Controls Head as needed or as business conditions change.

Education:

• Graduate of any business course, preferably Accounting, Commerce and Finance

Experience:

• At least 6-7 years combined experience in audit, internal control, business process, and financial related experience.

License/s: 

• CPA certification is a strong plus.

Other Requirements:

• Audit Competency 
• Proficient in both local language and English 
• Good leadership skills 
• Good Inter-personal and Negotiation skills 
• Good business acumen 
• Good interactions with internal stakeholders and dispute resolution 
• Financial statements and cash flow understanding. 

• Hybrid work set-up
• Willing to travel and be assigned in field work

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