Job Description

Manager - Controls : 00008WQH

Description

Principal Accountabilities: Key activities and decision making areas

Risk Management & Operational Effectiveness

- Managing the overall control environment and creating awareness across teams and levels with a view to manage operational incidents and ensure compliance with Global standards

- Facilitate and evaluate the risk and control assessment for the processes to ensure that risks and underline controls are adequately identified and assessed

- Ensure adequate governance through risk committees and dashboards to highlight the status of risk and control environment

- Perform management and thematic reviews for the high risk processes and socialize themes emerging from the reviews to prevent recurrence

- Recording, tracking and assurance around Management self-identified issues to ensure compliance with internal audit criteria- s

- Liaise with internal/external auditors and ensure audit preparedness of operation teams. Also, track and provide issue assurance for audit findings

- Work closely with regional control teams and global control office to manage the risks in the end to end processes

- Ensure adequacy of framework around SOX controls which would include inventorisation, training and monitoring

- Building and managing relationship with the stakeholders

- Work in close coordination with other risk functions to support entity level risks such as Information security, Compliance, BCP etc

Customers / Stakeholders

- Maintain key stakeholder relationships to enhance awareness of operational risk including its identification, assessment, mitigation and control.

- To support and ensure that local management fully considers and effectively manages operational risk in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Leadership & Teamwork

- Actively engage in establishing a strong control environment at GFC

- Be a good team player

- Self-driven and motivated

- Ability to deal with senior management

Professional, Functional (Technical), Skills, Experience

Knowledge

- Knowledge of finance functions such as accounting, reconciliation and reporting in the financial services sector is a must

- Understanding of SOX, operational risk and COSO frameworks would be required

Qualifications and Experience

- CA/MBA finance: 6-8 years of relevant post qualification experience in a leading accounting firms / financial services sector.

- Strong risk and control experience as a first line of defense. Experience in performing risk and control assessments, conducting risk committees and managing SOX framework is a must

- Experience in performing audits would be preferred

Qualifications

Professional, Functional (Technical), Skills, Experience

Skills

- Good business writing skills

- Strong communication and presentation skills

- Should have eye for detail and problem solving and influencing skills

- Ability to challenge information presented, providing reasoned explanation to ensure that agreement is reached by both parties

- Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with team members/wider business including senior executive management and ability to develop a good rapport in challenging situations

- Able to cope with pressure and tight deadlines

- Assertive, with a positive attitude and an open mind

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