- Develop and deliver the quarterly Finance control testing plan.
- Scope and plan testing activities ensuring adequate coverage of key Finance processes.
- Manage the day to day execution of the testing plan by working with the Finance team control testers to ensure that it is completed on time and to a high standard.
- Provide training to control testers, providing guidance and robust quality assurance on their test scripts and testing outputs.
- Conduct walkthrough with process and control owners to confirm the accuracy of process documentation and assess the design effectiveness of key controls.
- Oversee (and where necessary, perform) detailed testing to assess the operating effectiveness of controls, ensuring test samples are appropriate and conclusions are sufficient and evidence based.
- Maintain the control register in the GRC, ensuring it accurately reflects the results of control testing.
- Document control weaknesses identified through testing.
- Collaborate with control owners to agree remediation plans.
- Manage the end to end lifecycle of control issues, tracking remediation plans to completion and performing re-testing to validate their effectiveness.
- Assist team in preparing reporting packs for Finance leadership, summarising testing results, key themes, control gaps and the status of remediation.
Requirements
- Qualified Accountant with experience working in a regulated environment, (Banking sector preferable).
- Experience in risk management, internal controls, internal audit, or external audit, preferably from Big 4. (Experience in Finance internal controls preferable e.g. internal controls over financial reporting)
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to challenge constructively.
- Attention to detail.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships
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