Internal Controls & Compliance Manager (Based Thailand)

Role Summary

The Manager of Internal Controls & Compliance is a high-visibility, strategic leadership role. By designing, implementing, and monitoring the internal control environment in Celestica Thailand, you will act as the "guardian of financial integrity," ensuring strict adherence to Internal Controls and policies, SOX, local regulations, and BOI (Board of Investment) requirements. This role ensures all financial processes are compliant with company policies and acts as liaison between plant operations and corporate internal audit, ensuring that operational risks do not lead to financial misstatements and follow effective and on-time implementation of all corrective mitigating plans.

Key Responsibilities

1. Internal Controls & Process Governance

• Process Integrity: Ensure all critical finance and operational processes are defined, documented by owners and understood by stakeholders.

• Governance (SOD/DOA): Audit and monitor Segregation of Duties and Delegation of Authorities across all systems per company policy.

• Risk Culture: Drive organizational risk awareness through workshops, training, and highimpact communications. Lead interactions with Global Internal audit team and cross functional leaders and do pro-active assessment of processes to ensure minimum material findings.

• Tax & Regulatory: Review direct/indirect tax, Transfer Pricing workstreams and BOI filings compliance. Coordinate with the Company Secretary and operations to maintain all licenses, permits & legal documents within Thai regulatory framework.

1. Audit Leadership & Remediation

• Lead Liaison: Serve as the primary contact for internal and external auditors; lead teams to close audit concerns and track action plans with urgency.
• Action plan & Mitigation: Identify, manage and mitigate the Control deficiencies while collaborating with functional leaders to design and implement effective corrective actions within defined timelines.

1. Operational Oversight & Asset Protection

• Procurement/Supplier Audit: Audit the onboarding process for local suppliers to prevent conflict-of-interest or fraudulent billing and contract review. Audit bidding process for major expenditures performed by procurement Validate the process to comply with company procedure and local compliance.
• Inventory & Fixed Assets: Audit yearly cycle counts and periodic physical verification programs. Ensure proper documentation for disposals or transfers, with a focus on customer-financed and consigned assets.
• Scrap and Waste : Monitor key financial impact processes like the recording of scrap (BOM) and waste (non-BOM) to ensure accuracy and maximize recoveries.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Professional Foundation: CA/CPA preferred, complemented by a disciplined process improvement and Internal controls mindset/qualifications. Minimum a Bachelor’s degree with specialization in Internal audit/Internal controls roles with 5+ years of leadership experience preferably within a manufacturing environment.
• Technical Expertise & Systems Proficiency: Hands-on knowledge of Internal
• Controls/SOX & COSO framework. High comfort level navigating and extracting insights from ERP systems such as SAP, Longview/Hyperion and other ERP systems.
• Project management skills: Ability to work in a cross-functional team environment and manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Leadership Style: A "lead from the front" approach with a proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive high-priority initiatives in a high-growth setting.
• Core Competencies: Focus on data integrity, governance, and the ability to provide strategic, actionable insights to senior leadership.