Senior Manager - Finance Risk & Control

Our Global Finance Risk Management and Controls (FRMC) team support the Global Finance Organisation to meet compliance reporting requirements. For Projects & Change pillar of FRMC we are currently looking for agile, high-performing talent, Qualified Accountant with experience in risk management among other areas, to provide support to a diverse range of stakeholders across the organisation. As part of a modern, technology-led function delivering world-class service, you will be well-positioned to learn and develop your skills to progress in your career, laterally and vertically, working in a diverse and culturally rich environment with some of the best and brightest in the field. 

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. 

This role provides support for global projects significantly impacting Global Finance such as global process changes, transformations, system implementation or migrations, digitalisation using RPA/AI/ML, target operating model (TOM) roll out, and risk mitigation across key processes. This role is a business ‘risk-mitigation’ partner to finance services global process owners (GPOs) or project managers in assessing risks and identifying mitigation controls for various projects (e.g. supporting transformation activities including control ownership changes, knowledge transfer, reviewing updates of key policies, introduction of new tools – Cash allocation, Vendor creation, Vendor portal). The role will also identify opportunities for process simplification, automation and efficiency. 

Role Expectation

• Partner with relevant project managers or GPOs to ensure adequate risk mitigation robust plans are built by the organization. Involvement is needed both in regular weekly project calls and in identified opportunities to transform processes (implementation of new tools, process convergence, standardization and productivity improvement) to monitor risk, impact on controls and deliver tangible benefits to the business.

• Understand inherent and emerging risks in proposed finance process changes and ensure that process risks are identified, mitigated, controlled and reported appropriately.

• Being the ‘go to’ person in Finance Risk Management and Controls (FRMC) team for ongoing projects or process design issues for the operations teams and risk management teams

• Understand and escalate requests for changes to control design at all service locations based on the identified gaps, changes in the processes or outputs from data analytics.

• Support identification of rationalization opportunities and ERP application through risk assessment of the proposed tool or new process.

• Interact with key process stakeholders to understand current and emerging business requirements – appreciate risks to implementation and ownership of proposed controls

• Review relevant policies / SOPs for the newly designed processes to ensure process risks and controls are sufficiently documented.

• Ensure process map documentation includes agreed variations for local legal, fiscal or system limitations, including RACI and key controls.

• Participating in key business change initiatives as the voice of the risk & compliance team

• Provide risk & compliance inputs as part of project team for large process design projects to support major business change and present to governance team the proposed changes in internal controls supporting business/GPO in getting the approval of designed changes

We would like to speak to you if you have these experience and skills

• Qualified Auditor or Accountant (CA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA, CISA, DISA, ICAI or equivalent) with at least 10 years post qualifying experience

• Strong finance background with commercial experience, preferably at a global level.

• Significant experience in finance processes and operations, including a minimum 3-4 years in SOX Compliance; External or Internal Audit, Financial Control and/or Risk Management with a Big 4 audit firm or international corporates.

• Significant experience with internal control design and risk identification.

• Knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley legislation.

• Understanding of ERP systems, preferably SAP environment and some experience with Data Analytics.

• Experience of a global business process change project environment and ability to comfortably work in international environment

• Prior experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) projects or programs, particularly in design, deployment, risk management, or audit.

• Familiarity with digital tools such as Power BI, Celonis, Alteryx, etc. or similar platforms, with an emphasis on leveraging these tools for process improvements, analytics, and controls optimisation projects.

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