Business Control Manager

Company: Our client¡¯s main business scopes cover all kinds of application services related to IT technology. The offshore software development outsourcing service is the core business, which focus on the application development and management, web services, system integration, software engineering and business process outsourcing, etc.

Location:Shanghai
Responsibility:
1.Perform review of processes and provide controls guidance in specific areas
2.Identify process risks, assess the reasonableness of controls in place to manage the risk, and raise significant process deficiency issues when they exist
3.Consolidate and submit overall control posture results
4.Provide control related education as required
5.Coordinate and assist in review and audit performed by company¡¯s Internal and external Audit and Business Control. Track all outstanding controls issues resulting from Audit’s, CAR’s, Peer Reviews, SOX reviews, etc
6.Provide business control framework and guidelines to various business teams

Relevant Qualifications
Mandatory
1.Degree in Accounting or Finance
2.3-5 Audit working experience in Audit firm or internal audit of Corporation – especially in the area of system and process audits
3.Internal control, SOX knowledge is a must
4.Strong communication skill, project management skill
5.Proficiency in both English writing and speaking
6.Skills of using Lotus Notes, Microsoft Power point
7.Experience in business process outsourcing environment especially in finance & accounting, HR services or call centre environment would be an advantage

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US firm has eye on acquisition

GRACE Construction Products, a leading US construction and building materials maker, said it plans to complete at least one acquisition this year in China.

Jeremy Gray, Grace’s vice president for Asia Pacific, said in an interview that the company also plans to build one or two plants in 2007 in China’s underdeveloped western region to capture potential growth there. It now has four manufacturing sites in the country.

The company is a business unit of New York-listed W.R. Grace & Co.

China Legal Counsel

Company introduction: Our client is a leading, innovation-driven corporation committed to developing a growing portfolio of best-in-class and first-in-class pharmaceutical products that help people live longer, healthier and more active lives. Their products treat depression, schizophrenia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, osteoporosis and many other conditions. They are committed to providing answers that matter – through medicines and information – for some of the world’s most urgent medical needs.
In light of their business expanding, they are looking for a China Legal Counsel in Shanghai.

Job Description:
Report To:China General Counsel
Location:Shanghai
1.Support and provide advice on routine business operations and commercial transactions.
2.Review and draft commercial contracts relating to consulting services, procurement, distribution, clinical research, business collaboration and other business activities.
3.Counsel on corporate governance and compliance issues, advise on and handle governmental inspections.
4.Take a coordinative role and working with US patent team and China external litigator for IPR litigation cases.

Job Requirements:
1.3 to 5 years of solid experience acquired in a major foreign/local law firm and/or within the legal department of a multinational company.
2.Excellent legal academic credentials. First degree must be in law.
3.Confident to offer comments and thoughts at legal and business meetings. Self-motivated. Team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Flexibility to work and communicate with colleagues in different time zones. Prepared to travel one to two times a month within China.
4.Able to integrate easily on the basis of a highly developed, open and practical communication style
5.Assertive and able to play an active role as a partner to the business team and as negotiator; ability to make difficult decisions and stand behind them. Should be able to work independently.
6.Knowledge of the healthcare sector is not mandatory but would be a definite asset.

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China vows neutrality in choosing 3G systems

CHINA will be “technologically neutral” when choosing standards for high-speed wireless services in the world’s biggest mobile market by users, Xi Guohua, a vice minister at the Ministry of Information Industry, said yesterday.

China approved the domestically developed time division synchronous code division multiple access, or TD-SCDMA, in January 2006 as a standard for third-generation services. The government has said it is considering two other technologies, wideband CDMA, or WCDMA, and CDMA2000, for 3G, which allows video conferencing and faster downloads of songs on to handsets.

“We will treat WCDMA and CDMA2000 equally,” Xi said at the Boao Forum held in southern China’s Hainan Island. “It has nothing to do with supporting a locally developed standard.”

Telecommunication equipment makers such as Ericsson AB are awaiting China’s issuance of 3G licenses to spur spending on networks, Bloomberg News reported. The government has said 3G services will be available for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, without giving a more detailed time frame or saying which other standards it will adopt.

No timetable

Xi reiterated that the government doesn’t have a specific timetable. The issuance of 3G licenses isn’t dependent on the outcome of a trial of TD-SCDMA being carried out by China Mobile Communications Corp, Xi said.

China will consider the maturity of the technology and how starting 3G services will affect the competitiveness of the domestic telecommunications market, Xi said. The government is hastening plans to reorganize the industry, he said.

Xi’s comments come after European Union Media Commissioner Viviane Reding on April 12 cited the same pledge by China’s Information Industry Minister Wang Xudong to be “technologically neutral” and to issue more than one 3G license.

Most 3G networks in Europe are based on WCDMA.

Compensation disputes on the rise at work

DISPUTES over compensation for terminations of work contracts are on the rise, according to the Shanghai Labor and Social Security Bureau in its quarterly report released yesterday.

The arbitration division received 1,400 disputes about work contract termination during the first quarter of this year. Of those, about 75 percent were over compensation.

“Nowadays most employees choose to get compensation when it is illegal for the company to terminate a contract instead of insisting to stay in the company,” said Sui Wei, vice director of the bureau’s arbitration division.

“Most of the employees involved in these kinds of disputes are between the age of 18 and 40, and it has become a trend to prefer compensation,” Sui said.

Most disputes occur in private enterprises.

Other main causes of disputes are wage and insurance benefits, according to the report.

“But the number of disputes over arrears of wages has decreased by about 30 percent,” Sui said.

The number of dispute applications that can be handled by arbitration has been increased, Sui said.

Arroyo to sign US$2b deals on China visit

PHILIPPINEP President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was due to depart for a shortened visit to China today to conclude deals amounting to US$2 billion worth of Chinese investment, The Associated Press reported.

The visit, originally set for five days, was cut short to 12 hours after Arroyo’s husband underwent open heart surgery April 9. He was expected to be released from a hospital tomorrow, when Arroyo returns to Manila.

Apart from signing and approving several investment agreements, Arroyo was scheduled to take part in the weekend Boao Forum for Asia meeting of top government officials and business leaders, presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye said.

Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates, Bangladeshi Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus and Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz also were expected to attend the forum in southern Hainan province, Bunye said.

He said Arroyo “brings to the forum her expertise and strong grasp of regional and geopolitical matters in her capacity as president and as chair of ASEAN,” the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Arroyo has said earlier the investments in the Philippines will be funded by the Chinese government. She did not elaborate. Her visit to China in 2004 yielded US$1.2 billion in combined investment commitments and soft loans.

Strategic Sourcing Consultant

Job Description:
Company introduction:
One of the biggest venders of GM and SGM.

Report To:GM, Geography
Location:Shanghai
Responsibility
1.Provide technical liaison and consultation services for the procurement function to assure effective communication, coordination, and interaction.
2.Evaluate engineering designs from the conceptual phase through production design to assure that the engineering direction is compatible with the manufacturing process to assure supplier first time capability with superior part quality.
3.Direct early supplier participation in advance product feasibility assessment
4.Review supplier quality control plans and provide advise/assistance/training to obtain compliance, e.g. APQP, PPAP, R@R, Statistical Process Controls, Process Capability Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, etc.
5.Participate in the source evaluation and approval of potential suppliers.
6.Prepare status reports and maintain documentation for continuous improvements.
7.Analyze the plant(s) purchase part quality concerns and establish supplier visits consistent with these quality issues.
8.Assist in the development and formalization of partnership agreements to assure maximum supplier contribution toward practical application of new process, productivity and quality oriented designs to prove out manufacturability.

Qualification
1.At least a four-year Engineering degree
2.Extensive experiences in purchasing, manufacturing, supply chain in automotive industry
3.Strong organizational skills
4.Strong launch experience
5.Excellent communication skills
6.Fluency in Chinese & English

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McDonald’s China To Set Up 40 Trade Unions In East China

According to the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, McDonald’s China has promised to establish trade union branches in its 40 restaurants in Zhejiang province this year.

An ACFTU spokesman told local media that Zong Hao, central region human resources director with McDonald’s China, made the remarks when visiting the Zhejiang Federation of Trade Unions.

The move would boost the development of labor relations, upgrade the fast food giant’s social image in China and help it fulfill its social responsibilities, said Chen Dingxin, ZFTU vice chairman. Chen said he hoped McDonald’s China would lose no time in fulfilling its promise in accordance with China’s regulations on trade unions.

Earlier this month, Kong Xianghong, vice chairman of the Guangdong Trade Unions Federation, said McDonald’s had promised to set up trade union branches in the southern Guangdong province before July this year. But a spokesman for McDonald’s in Guangdong refused to confirm Kong’s claim and would not comment to local media.

McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut have been criticized for paying their part-time employees in Guangzhou just RMB4 per hour, up to 40% less than the city’s statutory minimum wage of RMB7.5. However subsequent government inspections found no problems with the foreign fast food operations.

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A US Leading Software Provider Wanted Senior Applications Engineer – DSP/COMMS with Competitive Pack,urgent!

Company Introduction:
Our client is a leading US base technical software provider nationwide, and open its business in China in April, 2007.

Location: Beijing
Job responsibilities:
The Applications Engineer’s primary role is to present relevant capabilities of the company’s products to customers while directing them towards using these products to accelerate their pace of development. The Applications Engineer is required to have strong knowledge in the field of Signal Processing and Communications.
• Providing technical pre-sales support and guidance to the China Sales organization. Working as a team, the Applications Engineer assists the salesperson first, in understanding and synthesizing customer requirements, then explaining the features and capabilities of our products and related third party products (Xilinx, Altera, TI, etc) relative to their specific needs.
• Preparing and delivering product presentations to customers and prospects. These are delivered during customer meetings and during marketing seminars where large audiences exist. These ‘product-centric’ sessions include, but are not limited to live MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow software demonstrations and associated PowerPoint slide presentations. Many seminars include the use of integrated third-party products focused on building embedded systems.
• Developing demonstration programs, application examples, and simulation models. These are generally used as support for a sales call or to make a solution clear relative to an application support assignment.
• Analyzing users’ problems to determine and implement the best computational approach. Occasionally, customers who are preparing to acquire software require guidance on how to use evaluation products. This requires assisting customers with the use of technical programs and models to solve specific problems.
Requirements:
• Strong knowledge of Signal Processing and Digital Communications.
• Experience with HDL and FPGAs is a big plus.
• Experience with TI or ADI Digital Signal Processors is a big plus
• Excellent verbal and Communication skills( in English/Chinese) and proficiency in the delivery of presentations.
• Candidate should be interested in working directly with customers to help them understand how to apply our products to their problems.
• Travel is generally throughout China specific to various seminars, customer visits, etc. The candidate should expect to travel about 25-50% of the time.

Education: Advanced Engineering degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering. Master or Doctor¡¯s degree preferred.
Salary Range: 224.3K, negotiable, based on experience and capabilities

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