Financial Controls Manager
- Recruiter
- Sellick Partnership Group Limited
- Location
- Homeworking
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Posted
- 04 Nov 2020
- Closes
- 02 Dec 2020
- Ref
- 918274
- Contact
- Hayley Cox
- Job Title
- Finance Manager
- Category
- Banking and Financial Services
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Accountabilities:
- Continual development and evolution of quality finance processes and procedures to:
- Support business change and growth
- Implement and embed financial controls
- Implement key financial improvement projects
- Drive assessment, documentation and challenge finance risks, controls and mitigating actions
- Support documentation of all finance policies and procedures, underpinned by a best practice financial control framework
- Challenge fellow global finance team members to improve practices, controls and documentation
- Support the adoption of new internal and external auditors
- Report on the performance of the finance team to operate the financial control framework via the development of processes to test effectiveness of identified key financial control
- Develop global financial control framework, reporting and build relationships with acquired subsidiaries
- Pivot role in the adoption of new entities via M&A, including due diligence on their existing policy framework and risks. Collaborative working to align with group framework.
- Act as mentor and trainer to wider finance team, in particular less experienced members of the team, to ensure they understand financial control importance and best practice
- Establishment of a team to ensure we continue to operate as best in
class following regional, product and acquisitional growth - Ad hoc duties which often arise
- Work across teams, both finance and other functions within the group, to ensure financial control driven through:
- Finance project development
- Regional expansion
- New product development
- Trading platforms
- Data flows
Skills and Abilities:
- Qualified accountant, with varied experience
- Background in developing, documenting and testing financial controls
- Experience of managing and developing a team
- Experience of the Financial Services sectors would be preferable
- Hands on approach with ability to get into the detail and understand complex transactions and decide how to account for them properly
- Experience of multi-currency and international business would be advantageous
- Can-do attitude with a willingness to learn and develop
- Comfortable working in an ever-evolving environment resulting in continual change
- Acts with honesty and integrity
- Curious and resourceful - seeks out difficult questions and finds solutions
- Resilient, able to learn from mistakes and move forward
- Flexible, adaptable and able to deal with ambiguity
- Collaborative, thrives when working towards shared goals