Internal Control Assitant Manager (Partner & Asset Protection (P&AP) Assistant Manager)

Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:

1. Process Improvement and Optimization

Review adequacy of internal controls and governance for business unit and support center. Ensure Company policies and procedures are followed:

o Have a detailed knowledge of all Company policies and procedures in relation to store operations.

o To carry out compliance audits in all stores in line with the current strategy. Highlighting areas of potential risk and shortcomings in company policy and procedures. Making recommendations at all levels to improve compliance.

o To ensure Company Policy and Best Practice are applied consistently and robustly across the business.

Maximize business profitability through effective management of risk.

- To conduct appropriate training in risk management to all Partners, District Managers and Support Centre partners.

- To provide support, advice and guidance to Partners, District Managers and Support Centre partners to ensure a proactive focus on risk management is maintained throughout the business.

2. Investigation:

Conducts complex projects requiring specialized knowledge in own discipline.

- Prevent, detect, and investigate company losses/risk.

- To detect, investigate and conduct interviews where necessary for internal and external theft, fraud, and other breeches of company policy in a professional manner and within legal and company guidelines. Attending and giving evidence in courts, industrial tribunals and disciplinary hearings as required.

- Carry out investigation into losses by known criminal activity.

- Efficient interpretation of exception data to identify risk and ascertain an effective solution.

- To monitor, investigate and conduct interviews where necessary for internal and external losses by exception data.

3. Safety and Security:

- To set up, monitoring CCTV/ Alarm systems for stores. Provide timely support for CCTV requests.

- Ensure the safety & security of facilities by conducting related projects.

- Coordinate with authorities to react to incidents happening at stores.

- Maintain effective communication with the Senior Managers, all partners, and Support Centre partners.

- To provide 24hr 365day emergency advice/support via a mobile phone.

4. Global Security and Resilience

- Closely working with Starbucks Regional teams on Projects related to Security and Resilience.

- Provide timely reports and market updates to Starbucks Regional teams.

- Conduct audit at vendor’s facility to ensure the alignment with requirements from regional team.

Decision Making & Risk Management: Decisions require the ability to examine problems or issues in new ways and apply guidelines, processes, and practices creatively.

- Role in Strategy: Provides tactical information to support strategy development and execution.

- Providing partners with coaching, feedback, and developmental opportunities and building effective teams.

- Offers support, advice, and training in relation to risks to partners to increase awareness of best practice for dealing with loss prevention and compliance issues.

- Communicate and update other team members as appropriate.

Knowledge: Applies knowledge to a range of complex activities. Share own expertise with others. Requires in-depth knowledge and experience. Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.

Independence & Problem Solving: Solve complex problems in own specialty area identifying key issues and underlying causes. Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions. Works independently with guidance in only the most complex situations.

Others: Progression to this level is typically restricted on the basis of business requirements.