Job Description

Reporting to the Group CFO and leading the Group's Financial Risk and Controls function (including Internal Audit), the role will include:

• Developing a risk management framework to address financial controls and compliance requirements
• Review of key finance processes to assess control weakness
• Implementation and design of controls, and through the Internal Audit team, 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
• Coordinating 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 organization and providing training to appropriate teams
• Leading and developing the Financial Risk and Control team, including short-term and long-term objective setting, and ensuring it is adequately resourced

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Chartered accountant, audit trained
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of accounting processes and control frameworks (either in Big 4 advising multinational clients, or from within a large multinational industry business)
• Strong business acumen
• First class communication and influencing skills
• Ability to summarize complex financial data in clear analyses presentations
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.