• Assisting with product profitability analysis for regions/countries/sites. • Coordinating the provision of costing and other data for decision support activities. • Undertake/coordinate benchmarking between regions/countries/sites to identify and support improvement projects. • Providing costing support to SAP and non-SAP entities and driving process improvements. • Standardisation of costing and cost of production data within the strategic business units (SBUs). • Assisting with transfer prices calculations for SBUs. • Provide support to Strategic Planning department. • Undertake other projects as required

• Led audits of the company’s financial systems and procedures, financial statements and internal management controls to ensure compliance with legal requirements and corporate policies. • Participated in Japanese Sarbanes Oxley testing for the international business (including Europe, North and South America). • Applied analytical skills to review and test business processes, perform risk and control assessments, document results and report the audit results including the adequacy of controls. • Coordinated with appropriate management staff in implementing approved corrective and preventive actions. • Acted as the contact with all business entities in Europe to ensure up to date information on business status and developments is available, and provided advice on an ongoing basis. • Produced audit plans and audit opinions for Europe. • Facilitated the closure of action plans, holding management to account for actions implementation. • Led management and staff meetings to present audit results and recommended solutions to any unaccountable transactions, faulty or erroneous data and other financial record anomalies. • Involved in risk management and competition compliance. • Prepared open actions report on monthly basis and distribute it to local management and country’s finance directors. Liaise with the regional Finance Directors regarding the status of the overdue actions. • Prepared quarterly audit reports which are presented to senior management and audit committee.

Finance and Accounting