Financial Compliance Lead - Hong Kong

About the team:
Internal Control team of Byte Dance focuses on the risks and challenges faced by global business operations, supporting business stakeholders in establishing appropriate internal procedures to safeguard the development of our business. Here, you will have the opportunity to learn about Byte Dance’s diverse business ecosystem, understand its operational principles, resource allocation methods, and participate in designing internal management mechanisms.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in global regional statutory audits and other financial internal control and compliance projects, manage daily communication with external auditors, oversee audit planning, progress monitoring and issue responses to ensure high-quality audit delivery.
• Build and continuously optimise risk control matrices for business and IT processes, conduct internal control walk-through and execution tests and produce standard high-quality working papers.
• Obtain end-to-end insights into front, middle and back-platform businesses and financial workflows, identify material risks, design and implement process optimisation solutions that balance risk control and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with technical teams to roll out regional IT general controls and application controls, and formulate risk control solutions for system automation.
• Compile best practices for internal control and audit readiness, drive cross-departmental collaboration to deliver results, ensure full work closure and support team capability growth.

Requirements:

Minimum Qualification(s):

• Bachelor’s degree or above with a minimum of 5 years of relevant working experience in internal control or risk management.
• Minimum 5 years of financial audit or financial internal control experience.
• Minimum 3 years of leadership or people management experience.
• Strong logical reasoning, comprehension, communication skills and empathy.
• Responsive to business gaps and abnormal data, with systematic knowledge and practical experience in risk control strategies.
• Proficiency in Mandarin is required to collaborate with global partners and key stakeholders based in Mandarin-speaking markets.