Internal Controls Specialist

**ABOUT US**

Kilcoy Global Foods (KGF) is a nature-to-plate company with a footprint spanning Australia, the United States and China. We partner with the world’s food industry to find new and better ways to source; prepare and serve delicious meat and seafood the world loves to eat. We believe our winning culture stems from the quality of our people and the contribution they make to Kilcoy Global Foods every day. Our Australian operation located in Kilcoy, (one hour north-west of Brisbane) is the largest Grain Fed Beef Producer in Australia and our corporate office is based in Birtinya on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

**KGF has an exciting new opportunity for an Internal Controls Specialist.**

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

As the new Internal Controls specialist your main responsibilities will be to design, lead and implement an internal controls framework for the KGF Australian businesses. You will also be required to design a program to prepare the Australian subsidiaries for a future Group IPO listing in Hong Kong.

You will also play a key role in driving a culture that understands and appreciates the importance of a strong internal control environment. As a valuable resource to the organisation, you must have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong planning, problem-solving and presentation skills, and can successfully manage stakeholders and influence those within key areas of the business.

**ABOUT YOU**

You will have experience working within complex business environments, where dealing with ambiguity and making decisions based with imperfect information will be second nature to you. You will have exceptional conflict management and negotiation skills, combined with high level communication that allows you to deal and influence within a business environment, at all levels and with a variety of key stakeholders.

**YOUR RESPONSILBITIES**
- Promoting a culture of risk awareness and control; implementing annual and ongoing risk assessments
- Establishing strong relationships with business unit stakeholders to develop a thorough understanding of the business, relevant financial reporting risks and core key processes.
- Undertake controls self-assessments across the business to highlight performance improvement observations and table reports to management
- Implementation of internal audit process, upgrade and providing recommendations for management to implement.
- Identifying and implementing best practice:

- When developing a framework and process for ongoing Design
- Implementing operational effectiveness and testing of key controls
- Creating key business process maps to identify control weaknesses across the value chain with a view to performance improvement
- Ability to champion the company’s compliance effort related to internal controls design and its effectiveness

**TO BE SUCCESSFUL**

You will have:

- Bachelor of Commerce or related business degree (Computer science, E-commerce)
- 3+ years’ experience in auditing, accounting, or related internal controls experience
- CA/CPA accreditation (must)
- Large businesses experience (must)
- An understanding of ERP systems
- Previous SOX experience is highly regarded
- Exposure to Business Continuity Management/Risk Management
- Working knowledge of information technology (COBIT), project management or quality management (ISO 9000) will be highly regarded

**ON OFFER**

This is a long-term career opportunity, working for an enterprise business with Corporate Offices on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. We have recorded business growth of 20% year on year with sales in excess of $1.6 billion. We are committed to building a work environment that fosters an agile plus flexible workplace and where employee wellbeing is paramount.

**HOW TO APPLY