Financial Controls Manager

Hays Senior Finance are partnering with an established global FTSE 250 business based on the outskirts of Gloucestershire. Working to enable an efficient, intelligent, and responsible business is the focus for their Corporate Services teams, and this newly created role is key to achieving this.

We're looking for someone who can drive change and bring others along with them, communicate clearly, and provide efficient, business-friendly solutions.

Responsibilities

• You'll be planning and delivering the design and implementation phases of our BEIS implementation project; designing controls for any identified gaps, producing and maintaining process maps,
• You will use this work, and your prior controls knowledge, to write an updated Internal Controls Manual that clearly and concisely sets out what's required for our global Finance teams.
• You'll also be communicating these changes across the business, so you'll need to have great communication and influencing skills. As someone with a controls and/or change management background, you'll know how to deal with challenging stakeholders and how best to bring people on this journey.
• We're taking a risk-focused and pragmatic approach to implementing 'UK SOX' and as part of this we need you to identify efficiencies in our current processes, and recommend improvements to be made as well as where additional controls and/or documentation are needed.
• Supporting the first line of defence in implementing audit recommendations will be important to this role as the project progresses, so we need you to be able to prioritise, and to work well with teams across our global business.
• You'll be working closely with the D365 project team as we roll this out in the next few years, ensuring that key controls are embedded by design where possible, and that key IT controls across our systems are identified and documented.
• With direct interaction with our Group Finance Director and other key stakeholders, including the Audit Committee, you'll be reporting the key points coming out of the above areas, in a clear and engaging way.

Key requirements

• Strong interpersonal skills; whether it's working with global teams to understand their processes and controls, introducing additional requirements in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment, or aligning the views of different stakeholders, you'll need to be able to work well with a range of different people and in different styles, bringing them on the journey with us and advocating pragmatic, risk-focused improvements.
• Experience in writing clearly and concisely, including reports to senior stakeholders.
• A thorough understanding of financial controls; this may be from a risk and compliance role in another international group, from internal audit, or perhaps from an audit or advisory role in practice.
• A solid understanding of IT general controls and their role in financial reporting
• Strong project management skills.
• A collaborative and positive approach.
• Either hold recognised accountancy qualification, or be 'qualified by experience'.

It'd be great if you also had

• Experience of implementing SOX and testing controls.
• Process-mapping and/or MS Visio experience.
• Strong understanding of IFRS.
• Data analytics experience and an interest in making better use of technology to support efficiencies.

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