Senior Internal Audit Specialist

Watsons

About A.S. Watson Group

Established in Hong Kong in 1841, A.S. Watson Group is the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer operating over 16,000 stores under 12 retail brands in 27 markets, with over 140,000 employees worldwide.

Watsons is the leading O+O (Offline plus Online) health and beauty retailer in Asia, currently operating over 8,000 stores and more than 1,500 pharmacies in 14 Asian and European markets.

Watsons continually sets the standards in the health, wellness and beauty market, providing personalized advice and counselling in health, beauty and personal care on top of its market-leading product range, making customers LOOK GOOD, DO GOOD, FEEL GREAT every day. Since 2009, Watsons has been the No.1 pharmacy/ drugstore brand in Asia*. In Europe, Watsons is also the leading health and beauty retailer in Ukraine. Watsons is the flagship health and beauty brand of A.S. Watson Group. *Campaign Asia-Pacific “Asia’s Top 1,000 Brands” survey 2020 of over 8,000 respondents across 14 markets in Asia Pacific Region

Watsons Turkey

Watsons Turkey is one of the leading beauty and personal care retailer in Turkey with its nearly 350 stores in 60 cities. Watsons Turkey aims to make a positive difference in the lives of customers with the products and services with nearly 3,000 employees.

Qualifications 

• University degree in a relevant field from a reputable university,
• Fluency in English,
• Minimum 3 years of experience in external (preferably Big Four) or/and internal audit within multinational organizations),
• Good command of MS Office applications,
• Careful and detail oriented work attitude, patient personality, believes in teamwork,
• Excellent analytical and communication skills,
• Strong reporting and analyzing skills,
• All male candidates must have completed their military services.

Job Description

• Help ensuring compliance with the company's internal control procedures in all business processes,
• Close follow up of capex spendings and obtain group approval when necessary,
• Perform periodic store compliance audits,
• Control of bank account change processes according to group policies,
• Periodical reporting of all internal checks and processes,                     
• Assist and follow up internal and external audit processes,
• Take part in developing and implementing company local policies and procedures,
• Helping stock-take processes of stores, post-pick audit process in the warehouse and taking corrective actions in line with policies & procedures.