Head - Internal Control

Head of Internal Control, Pune,India

ENGIE

ENGIE is a French multinational energy giant (CAC 40-listed company) with an annual revenue around 80 billion euros, operates in 27 countries with big renewable development ambition in India.

ENGIE group is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services. Together with our 96,000 employees, our customers, partners and stakeholders, we are committed to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral world, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally friendly solutions. Inspired by our purpose (“raison d’être”), we reconcile economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet, building on our key businesses (gas, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to our customers.

ENGIE INDIA

ENGIE has been active in India for over 1 decade and invested over 1 Bn EUR in India across various sectors and will significantly increase our investments in the country over the coming years. Today our renewable portfolio in India is over 2.3GW with 1.1GW in operations in 7 states and another 1.25GW in various stages of construction, and advanced development. The group CEO has reconfirmed our ambition to develop 1 GW / year starting from next year.

This scale-up environment will catapult our Finance organization in a new age on which the head is expected to contribute.

The position

Internal Control objective is to provide reasonable assurance to management in terms of :

• Compliance of the organization processes with the group golden rules and policies
• effectiveness and efficiency of business operations (including prevention of risks of fraud)
• reliability of financial reporting. Internal Control covers both financial process and all other operational and strategic processes.
• compliance with laws & regulations,

Financial processes:

In the Target Finance Operating model, the financial processes and some other transactional processes are run in expertise centres at different levels of the organization, either directly or with shared service centres.  All the Finance management line is responsible for delivering to GBUs the corresponding outcome with the appropriate level of internal control. While the Head of Internal control India will focus on Finance & Accounting related topics, he/she will also work on other domains throughout ENGIE (for instance Health and Safety, Sapin 2, ethics,…).

Your main objectives

• you follow, complement
• you coordinate and monitor the deployment of effective internal controls (INCOME) within all activities of the entities 
• you ensure adoption of INCOME programs, appropriate to the needs of entities activities and in line with GBU expectations;
• you act as business partner and advisor to management in managing risks and improving the maturity of their business processes.
• you provide assurance to the management for the signoff of the annual IC attestation letter, confirming that Internal Control systems are appropriate to mitigate the main risks, and that action plans are defined as required.
• You perform 2nd level control activity over the GBU activities in the INDIA entities.

Your key Accountabilities

• Propose to the management the annual INCOME roadmap setting the IC objectives and scope, in line with entities priorities, GBU expectations and ENGIE Corporate requirements.
• Coordinate and monitor the implementation of INDIA annual IC roadmap
• Supervise the implementation of Internal Control in the entities for the general control environment evaluation and for the INCOME process analysis. Coordinate the different steps of the program with Internal Control community and operational entities.
• On a case by case basis, support the Business Process Owners (BPO) with the implementation of adequate internal controls.
• Define and monitor and test the reliability of the self-assessment and share experience on best practices (o/w INCOME reviews, Highbond dashboards, incident analyses).
• Share IC tools and best practices across the entities
• Oversee the controls self-assessment, report progress to Internal Control Officer AMEA, prepare IC annual reports for the Management
• Oversee the implementation of action plans identified by self-assessment and as results of audits, and escalate issues to f Internal Control Officer AMEA and entities internal controllers
• Prepare the annual global synthesis presentation for INDIA
• Prepare the annual IC attestation letters and ensure they are properly cascaded in the organization.
• Corroborate process maturity assessments with IA conclusions and monitor the implementation of IA recommendations related to Internal Control,
• Coordinate with local external auditors: share the IC roadmap and the IC conclusions; obtain their input on IC if any.

Perimeter of accountability

• ENGIE activities in INDIA, potential testing missions in AMEA or in the other regions of the Group

Internal interfaces

• Direct reporting to Internal Control Officer AMEA and CFO INDIA
• Corporate functional lines (Procurement, Ethics, HR,…)
• Functional management of French entities Internal Control Officers
• Group Internal Audit teams
• GBU CFOs and CEOs
• INDIA CEO

Your profile

• master’s degree from reputable engineering, business school or university.
• 8+ years of experience in similar fields (risk management, audit,…)
• Global and transversal vision : from a good knowledge of Group activities, ability to work with various process experts
• Accountability and assertiveness : ability to challenge experts, management and Corporate functional lines 
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills (results-oriented but still looking at issues in a very detailed manner);
• Knowledge of support and global processes
• ability to summarize in-depth, particularly in PowerPoint
• strong interpersonal and relationship management skills: ability to build and maintain positive internal relationships
• must be constructive, inquisitive and creative
• English is required, any additional language practiced in the Region is a plus
• Flexibility to travel occasionally
• An operational experience is a plus

Job Location :- Viman Nagar, Pune, India