Risk Manager

Job description / Role

Job duties
• Work across transportation teams and other business partners to identify and assess regulatory and compliance risks as it relates to our 3P carriers
• Design and deliver compliance programs including defining supplier audit criteria, audit cadence, and risk rankings. Partner with the Controls Assurance team to design risk-based audit programs
• Develop a working knowledge of the operational processes and controls in place that support all compliance programs
• Assist with linking policies, standard operating procedures, internal controls, monitoring, and reporting with the goal of improving operations, compliance policies, and risk management
• Collaborate with project teams in developing business requirements and business controls in implementation plans
• Drive process improvement and control implementation projects
• Drive documentation of processes, risks, and controls and work with owners to assign accountability
• Deliver quality documents that are effectively written with practical, actionable, and value-added recommendations
• Manage a 3P audit provider to execute a pre-agreed audit program against a standard checklist
• Willing to travel up to 50% of working time, sometimes at short notice

Experience and skills required for the job
• 5+ years of Risk, Audit, Compliance, Internal Controls, Legal, HR Compliance, and/or Labor Employment experience.
• BA/BS degree (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead large programs
• Excellent organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are a must (including English language)
• Demonstrated track record of managing through influence
• Exceptional analytical skills, comfortable working with large amounts of data and communicating data findings
• Able to work effectively with multiple teams
• Preferred Qualifications
• CPA, CMA, CISA, CIA or similar risk, audit, or compliance credentials.
• Auditing and/or compliance skills (e.g., SOX, SOC, etc.).
• Proven Transportation or Supply Chain industry experience, preferably in a similar role, within a high-volume logistics, environment.
• Understanding of basic data analytical skills and tools such as Tableau, SQL (intermediate to advanced).
• Ability to thrive in a start-up like environment

About the Company

KAFAAT Recruitment offers executive search and consulting expertise aligning with our clients’ growing demand for talented human resources. Through talent search, identification, selection and referrals, KAFAAT Recruitment helps to recruit top executives for your enterprise and offers complete solutions for defining and recruiting emerging new roles in the marketplace to all industries, including Industrial, Financial Services, Consumer & Retail, Energy, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Technology Digital Media & Telecommunications, Board Search, Non Profit & Government and Human Resources.