Senior Manager Internal Control over Sustainability Reporting (ESG)

Job Description

You are a part of the Non-Financial Reporting team within Group Sustainability, which is responsible for securing compliance with Philips’ Internal Control over Sustainability Reporting (ICSR) for the enterprise, as well as for leading and executing strategic programs in the internal control domain with a view to always maintain the robustness of the Philips’ internal control frameworks.

Your role:

• Creating value by designing efficient solutions to drive operational efficiencies, compliance with company policies, and thereby reducing the risk of (material) reporting misstatements.
• Safeguarding consistency in disclosure and applicability of the related methodologies across the Philips Group.
• Working together with finance, and other functional teams, to act as a regulatory watch for new Sustainability compliance developments and safeguard that these are timely embedded and communicated to broader Philips.
• Participating in system and project implementations which have internal control, or external assurance, implications.
• Working closely with various levels of management and business process owners to ensure key controls are timely identified and embedded in processes, tested, and operating effectively.
• Monitoring and advising process owners on action plans for remediation of deficient controls on a timely basis.
• Performing root cause analyses, and designing efficient and effective remediation plans.
• Contributing to the preparation of periodic reporting to key stakeholders such as senior management.
• Identifying opportunities to increase efficiency and continuously improve on the existing internal control framework, including automation opportunities.