Description
A great opportunity to join a high-growth, fast paced tech company and can be based in either their Glasgow or Edinburgh office. This is a newly created role reflective of the success of the newly created Internal Controls/Risk team.
Joining the Internal Control & Risk team provides an excellent opportunity for dynamic individuals to make a real impact developing the internal control framework and to work with senior management on challenging and complex projects.
The Internal Control & Risk teams adds value as an independent and professional business partner. The department acts as the second line of defence, supporting management by coordinating the internal control, risk management and group-policy management related processes and ensuring that these meet relevant regulatory requirements, including the Sarbanes Oxley Act.
- Support the continuous development of the risk and internal control framework.
- Review, evaluate and document internal controls.
- Create and maintain process flows, risk assessments, and risk and control matrices.
- Coordinate activities to ensure timely compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) legislation and quarterly corporate requirements.
- Periodically support ITGC activities, including testing of IT general controls and manual controls activities relating to change management, logical access and computer operations (i.e. problem management, batch processing, back-ups).
- Help ensure a culture of risk and internal control awareness.
- Recommend action plans to management to address risks any identified internal control weaknesses.
- Provide SOX training to control owners.
Key requirements:
- Strong working knowledge and understanding of compliance and risk review procedures, business processes and internal control evaluation and testing methodologies.
- Recognised professional qualification CA, ACA, ACCA, IIA, CIA (or equivalent). In addition, the following professional certifications would be considered an advantage: CISA, CISM, CISSP, Prince 2 or PMP, CFE.
- Preferably have significant, varied and recent experience of SOX compliance and testing either from Internal or External audit.
- Have experience in risk management with excellent practical experience applying the COSO Framework.
- Be able to engage with and influence colleagues of all levels of the organisation.
- You should have significant, up to date SOX experience and a keen understanding of audit, finance, and the 3 lines of defence model as well as experience of balancing this with commercial reality.
- Strong problem-solving and organisation skills, including the ability to handle competing priorities and meet tight deadlines.
- Solid analytical skills and ability to conduct complex data analysis, which may require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.
- Proactive, self-confident and assertive team player with high degree of integrity and ability to independently solve problems.
- Demonstrate a positive, can-do attitude and out-of-the-box thinking.
- Strong working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook. In addition, working knowledge of Sage X3 and data mining tools (e.g. Idea or ACL) are an advantage.
For more information or to discuss further, please call Georgie Millyard 07850766965 or email [email protected]