Business Partner and Gpo, Asset Controls and Audit

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 300 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ 11,000 people and operate in more than 55 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our

Hybrid Work Model


**Job Description**:
The Asset Control Business Partner and Global Process Owner (GPO) role will be responsible for supporting strategy sessions, process deployment, and execution of end to end asset controls processes. This includes maintaining a strong control environment, effective policies and procedures, and a robust audit process.

The GPO plays an important role in the overall asset productivity and control strategy, driving transformation by aligning the organization, changing behavior while reinforcing the overall culture around asset controls and inventory audits. The GPO will do this by establishing close working relationships with leaders throughout their processes’ functions and with business users.

As an Asset Control Business Partner, this role is also responsible for providing assurance around planning, management, and execution of the annual Customer Stock Audit processes while reinforcing preventive, corrective, and detective controls, this with the objective of reducing audit variances and assure confidence around audit results.

Ensures continuous process improvement as well as Current Best Approach and Best practice adoption across the regions.

Key accountabilities include:

- Manage Brambles Internal Audit and/or external audit inquiries regarding asset controls and hire stock audits
- Lead the development of the annual audit plan for the region
- Develop the annual stock take plan that demonstrates effective coverage and considers cyclical coverage and exposure
- Execute the annual stock take plan through a partnership with Sales, Customer Service, third party inventory service providers, and customers
- Conduct monthly Leadeship reviews of customer inventory audit progress against targets, facilitating discussions, disseminate information, and develop and maintain scorecards
- Enforce inventory audits policies and procedures. Identify internal and external risks that effect the ability to comply with Brambles policies.
- Ensures that preventive, corrective, and detective risk controls are in place
- Lead a culture of proactive asset control and risk management
- Provides support, education and training to the organization around inventory controls and audits principles and methodologies

Track team performance, monthly review of team members KPIs, including developmental goals. Experience providing timely and effective feedback to team members.

Qualifications:
Essential Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, supply chain or related field
- 7-10 years related experience in internal audit, inventory and asset controls

5-7 years’ experience managing direct reports

**Experience**:

- Minimum bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, finance, accounting or related field
- 10+ years of Supply Chain, Asset Controls, Inventory Audits experience
- Demonstrated project management skills and process simplification experience
- Advance knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including but not limited to array formulas, pivot tables, lookup, and VBA macros
- Experience using statistical sampling, estimation and extrapolation
- Strong people development, team building and leadership skills
- Perform adhoc analysis using data reporting tools
- Proven ability to develop analytical models, build and validate inventory variance methodologies, and financial analyses
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate discussions, disseminate information, update leadership team, and develop and maintain performance scorecards.

Skills and Knowledge:

- Solid understanding of Inventory Controls principles
- Solid understanding of Inventory Audit process
- Solid understanding of Supply Chain and other business-related processes
- Finance background with understanding of Financial Statements
- Internal audit and risk management
- Leverage data analytics
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Advanced Excel / PowerPoint / Word skills
- Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively to meet deadlines
- Strategic and critical thinker, can anticipate & provide scenarios for different situations

Strong people development and leadership ski