Head of Internal Control and Financial Risk
- Central London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Developing a risk management framework to address financial controls and compliance requirements
- Review of key finance processes to assess control weakness
- Establish the vision for a futureproof internal control environment
- Implementation and design of controls, and testing of those controls
- Collaborating with finance transformation teams to identify areas to enhance processes to mitigate risk, including automation and improved audit trails
- Developing internal audit plans, oversee reviews and reporting of findings
- Co-ordinating regularly with relevant teams, departments, and key stakeholders to collate areas of concern, control deficiencies identified and monitoring of remediation progress
- Acting as the central point for co-ordination of documentation pertain to finance policies and processes, and evidence of compliance with processes
- Communication of risk areas and progress against plans put in place to address weaknesses with key stakeholders, including reporting to the Executive Leadership team, the Board, and the Group’s Auditors
- Sharing of best practices across the organisation and providing training to appropriate teams
- Create and lead a Financial Risk and Control team, including short-term and long-term objective setting, and ensuring it is adequately resourced
- Chartered accountant, audit trained
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of accounting processes and internal control frameworks
- Will have established and scaled an internal controls framework and function across a large, listed environment
- Strong commercial acumen
- First class communication and influencing skills
- Comfortable engaging with exec level stakeholders
- Ability to simply summarise complex financial data
- Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.