Semi-Senior Auditor

Location: Kuala Lumpur

Function: HD Finance
Requisition ID: 1033813

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We’re crucial to the company’s strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.

Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The role:

This role reports to the Senior Manager of Internal Audit and will perform and support diverse types of audits and consulting engagements, including but not limited to global end-to-end process reviews, sales office audits, J-SOX activities, operational reviews, and system implementation reviews.
Act as J-SOX compliance coordinator for selected financial processes
Understand organization objectives, structure, policies, processes, internal controls, and external regulations
Prepare good quality work papers and other deliverables timely and professionally to adequately and clearly document testing, support conclusions, communicate findings and recommendations to line manager and stakeholders.
Identify risks and improvement opportunities in the organization, exercise judgment while evaluating audit findings and provide meaningful, high impact recommendations for management to improve process and operational efficiencies, including reducing the possibility of fraud, and mitigate risks
Influence process owners and stakeholders to improve operations and enhance controls. Validate the completion and closure of agreed remediation and management actions as needed
Working on multiple priorities/projects for on-time delivery, proactively providing status of all activities to Internal Audit management and relevant business stakeholders
Execute special assignments to support the wider needs of the Internal Audit team or other business functions
What you bring to the team:

Recent 2-3 years of experience in internal audit, internal control or accounting firm consulting/advisory is required (Big 4 background is desirable)
Bachelor's Degree in Auditing, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or Information Technology
Good knowledge of J-SOX or SOX requirements, internal audit, and accounting practices. The candidate should be able to work collaboratively across various departments, regions, and cultures.
An accounting or audit qualification e.g., CIA, CISA, CPA, ACCA or equivalent preferred
Ability to work independently and effectively with limited supports, have experience to lead small projects and have good time management and organizational skills. Experience of shared service centre environments is desirable
Ability to convey under presence, professional image, and deal confidently with business problems while building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders
You are “out-of-the box” thinker with good analytical skills and the ability to adapt quickly to changing work environments, priorities, and deadlines
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
About us

We’re a global, 1000-strong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We’re curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you’re not just another employee; you’re part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.

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Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.