Assistant Manager - Global Control Compliance
Key responsibilities :
- Manages the delivery of the FR&C team's monthly, quarterly and annual reporting processes on a day to day basis
- Ensures that all internal and external financial reporting obligations are delivered to a high standard and on time
- Leads technical accounting excellence, including management of the adoption of new accounting standards
- Works with operational finance to ensure all balance sheet reconciliations are completed in accordance with group policies. Contribute to the design and implementation of standardised and consistent control compliance KPI dashboards towards improved compliance
- Review monthly process KPIs to identify quality issues, areas of risks and action plans required and support the Regional Finance teams in remediating areas of non-compliance,
- Monthly review of balance sheet reconciliations, acting as a subject matter expect to provide practical guidance to markets on how to perform best practice reconciliations.
- On an ongoing basis, discuss failure of controls (from internal audit, external audit or direct control assurance testing) with the appropriate local, regional and/or group stakeholders and agree and monitor remediation actions.
- For agree management actions plans, ensure they are followed-up in a timely manner to mitigate risks to an acceptable level.
- Share findings, concerns, and recommendations with local/regional/group senior management and other key stakeholders as required
- Respond to special requests from the Board, Audit Committee and Risk Committee
- Lead on key compliance projects, as required
Requirements: - Qualified accountant with 4 to 6 years' experience in Financial Accounting & Reporting/Audit / Risk & Control teams or similar
- Proven record of working in a fast paced, ambitious, and multinational environment within a FTSE100-sized company
- Experience in driving initiatives forward and managing change in a structured manner