Job Description

Your key focus will be to monitor the potential for risk of material error in financial reporting (financial numbers and disclosures), to ensure best practice is always followed and that control issues are managed, as per group and local policy.

You’ll make.

• Managing S-Ox programme, ensuring a robust S-Ox control environment and compliance with the Group S-Ox model
• Delivering a programme of independent design and operational effectiveness testing of all S-Ox controls, ensuring an adherence to industry best practice, consistency of approach and achievement of efficiencies
• Coordinating the annual S-Ox certification campaign, ensuring certification at all levels through to CEO, within a set timetable
• Ensuring that the business areas are supported so that they may implement appropriate financial controls where there are changes across the bank that impact the accounting.
• Coordinating the annual refresh and review of the S-Ox controls including financial statement and entity scoping and COSO mapping to ensure completeness of the control framework
• Overseeing deficiency remediation, ensuring consistent reporting and resolution within agreed timeframes prior to their escalation

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience working in controls background (external or internal audit)
• The ability to managing, build and develop key internal and external stakeholder relationships
• Strong understanding of Risk and Risk Management
• Excellent leadership skills / ability to deliver to tight deadlines
• Good understanding of banking / large Financial Services organization
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop a team