Your responsibilities:
- Provide finance risk & control inputs, as a member of the Business Unit project team, to support finance transformation projects and activities. Be the single point of contact for the Project and for other Solution Design teams for risk identification and assessment, process and control design issues related to the project.
- Partner with relevant Project and Solution Design teams to identify risks and to recommend appropriate mitigating controls in planned solution design. Ensure that internal controls are specifically reviewed and assessed in any transformation solution design.
- Where controls are assessed to be changing from transformation activity (location, ownership, testing, etc) ensure that the solution is confirmed and assessed for impact on the finance control environment, including the control testing processes. Act as the single point of contact to the project team to ensure that the assessment is performed, and the impacts communicated. Ensure that change implementation takes full account of the need to maintain an effective control environment through the project and into BAU.
- Partner with relevant project and Solution Design teams to ensure adequate risk mitigation plans are developed for transformation projects. Ensure an end-to-end process perspective is applied to ensure people capability & capacity, organizational structure and system resource limitations are adequately risk assessed for transformation activities.
- Interact with key project and process stakeholders to understand current and emerging transformation plans – understand and assess risks to implementation and ownership of controls from transformation plans. • Manage the governance process for the Internal Control Framework (ICFW) if transformation results in any change to finance controls.
- Review relevant policies / SOPs for newly designed/changing processes to ensure process risks and controls are sufficiently documented. • Provide finance risk management & control inputs as a member of the project team that cover process and organization design, implementation of designed changes, and external audit impacts.
- Work with the project team to develop appropriate risk and control activities, deliverables and toll gate criteria for the project, and continually assess and develop their effectiveness.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications: • Master’s degree level & further education with a Professional Accounting / Auditing qualification
- Minimum of 15 years Post qualification experience in internal or external audit, or SOX compliance programmers
- Strong experience in risk assessment, auditing, and internal controls
- In-depth knowledge of finance operations
- Experience of SAP
- Good understanding of key finance processes of C&C, P2P, O2C, TPF
Preferred Qualifications : • CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIA
- Experience in use of technology with a risk focus.
You could connect with me via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/karishma-narang-a45131209/
