Internal Controls Manager, East Asia

About the role

Join Stryker as the Internal Controls Manager for East Asia and play a pivotal role in strengthening the control environment across a dynamic region. You will partner with senior business and finance leaders to drive governance, risk management initiatives and shape scalable processes that support sustainable growth.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the East Asia Internal Controls program and ensure compliance with corporate control frameworks, policies, and governance requirements.
• Assess the effectiveness of key business and financial controls across regional entities and identify opportunities to strengthen the control environment.
• Conduct risk assessments to identify control gaps, emerging risks, and process weaknesses and develop mitigation plans.
• Drive remediation activities for audit findings, monitoring results, and compliance assessments to achieve timely closure of control deficiencies.
• Maintain and enhance Risk Control Matrices (RCMs), key control documentation, and supporting evidence to ensure audit readiness.
• Partner with Finance, Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Compliance, and Technology teams to embed effective controls into business processes.
• Lead process improvement, automation, and governance transformation initiatives that increase preventive controls and reduce manual activities.
• Deliver training, coaching, and awareness programs that strengthen control ownership, risk management practices, and accountability across the region.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Internal Controls, Audit, Risk Management, Compliance, Finance Controllership, or related disciplines.
• Experience working within multinational organizations across multiple countries.
• Knowledge of internal and external audit processes and US GAAP and/or IFRS.
• Experience with compliance and governance programs.

Required skills

• Knowledge of US GAAP and/or IFRS.
• Understanding of internal and external audit processes.
• Familiarity with risk control matrices and control documentation.