Internal Control Advisor

Opportunity

Internal Control is responsible for driving the business process agenda, owning, and developing the internal control framework.

The team is responsible for conducting internal control risk assessment, ensuring implementation and improvement of controls incl. documentation.

Furthermore, the team is responsible for compliance with internal (GIA) and external audits incl. Group reporting on control effectiveness.

We offer

Maersk Oil Trading’s (MOT) focus is to optimize the bunker purchase within Maersk Ocean division. We are the largest buyer in the bunker market, controlling approximately 8% of the global volume.

You will be part of the Internal Control team, and the role is situated in Copenhagen. You will be reporting to the Head of Internal Control, MOT.

MOT offers a dynamic work environment that encourages people to strive for excellence combined with a true entrepreneurial spirit. In addition, you will have the opportunity for an exciting and attractive career path with the possibility of continuous professional and personal development.

At Maersk we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job. – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to: gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs.

We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

Key responsibilities

Your main areas of responsibility will be to:

• Contribute in the development and implementation of the internal control framework

• Develop and optimize the internal control catalogue

• Engage with the business to ensure that internal controls are developed to be relevant, and effective when considering the nature of the business-specific risks, activities, systems, and processes while focusing on the automation of controls

• Monitor internal controls, highlight deficiencies, and facilitate mitigation of deficiencies identified

• Support in driving the cultural change and the right behavior around internal controls

• Contribute to the reporting of control effectiveness to Group as well as MOT Management

• Support in rolling-out group initiatives e.g. new reporting system and/or new controls to be implemented.

We are looking for

The ideal candidate will:

• Have a Master's degree in finance, economics, or equivalent combined with 4+ years of work experience from a similar role within an international company, or alternatively as internal control professional in an international consultancy/ Big 4 accounting firms

• Have solid practical experience with risk management and internal controls as well as practical business experience in Finance and Operational processes

 Experience from a commodity trading is an advantage

• Have experience with stakeholder management and have strong communication skills
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• Besides being a team player, you should be a self-motivated and results-driven individual who has a systematic and structured mindset approach to tasks

• Are fluent in written and spoken English. Danish is not required.