Your new company

One of the world's leading communications services companies. The solutions they sell are integral to modern life. Their purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: connect for good. There are no limits to what people can do when they connect. And as technology changes our world, connections are becoming even more important to everyday life. Today, that's truer than ever. The connections this company make are helping solve the world's biggest challenges such as the global pandemic, climate change and cyber security. Through the power of technology, they are supporting customers to live, work and play together better.

Your new role

The company is obliged to report financial compliance under the Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting (ICOFR), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Indian Companies Act (ICA) (amongst others).
The role is pivotal, as part of delivering brilliant Services to the company using Third Party Suppliers, the role drives the quality of work our vendors do on our behalf through the audit compliance and ownership of key controls. This role will act as the team lead on the our ICOFR & SOx compliance, working with internal stakeholders and external auditors to prove best practice, whilst mitigating any identified failures to a conformant state.
This role will also drive the continual improvement and leadership reporting to ensure the company has control over its commitments as well as providing strong insight to the Group Internal Audit team. The role holder will be accountable for the review of key artefacts and reporting from vendors, providing management insights and recommendations to the IT Senior Leadership Community, lead on Delivery Unit change and alignment initiatives and co-ordinate the regular reporting within the IT function to assure end to end, documented compliance.

You'll have the following responsibilities

• Assure the successful delivery of the areas ICOFR, SOx and Audit key control obligations, providing management support and guidance to both internal and partner resources as required.
• Own the framework and supporting templates to drive compliance through continual improvement
• Deliver the regular audit reviews to ensure compliance of our key controls, providing the validation on manual controls as well as the assurance of all controls in the domain.
• Agree and align the audit validation approach across the DU and with the leadership team.
• Drive best practice, continual improvement review and benefits analysis on the framework with key stakeholders across the business.
• Hold key stakeholders to account to deliver upon their commitments and reporting obligations at a Senior Manager and working level, Co-ordinating with the Validation Specialists and partners to ensure timely delivery of audit artefacts and associated management reporting.
• Report on compliance against the vendor controls framework.
• Report on compliance against the Audit controls for the area on behalf of the business.
• Provide observations and recommendations against failed controls, with recommendations, whilst driving remediation steps as agreed with key stakeholders.
• Report and track on Assurance and Audit compliance initiatives, delivering a single, unified Management Reporting dashboard with supporting narrative
• Lead on best practice adoption with the Supplier Partners, bringing the assurance outcomes and key messages to the table and holding them to account to drive best practice
• Where required, audit the Supplier Partner to assure consistency of approach and capability to support a consistent internal frame work, reporting outcomes back to Senior Management for review and action as required.

What you'll need to succeed

• Expert knowledge of security, compliance and control requirements and the frameworks to ensure assurance through the three lines of defence model.
• Expert knowledge of the SAP MFB environment and its IT Control frameworks and the critical dependencies between IT controls as a building block to financial reporting control and how they impact to company's overall business controls & processes.
• Expert knowledge to identify clearly the specific aspects of SAP MFB internal control requirements and the additional matters that indirectly impact and are covered by financial reporting standards.
• Have a good knowledge of financial control frameworks in general, and SOX and India Companies Act requirements, in order to ensure that SAP MFB IT controls are managed in a balanced and appropriate manner, consistent with industry best practise.
• Comprehensive expert knowledge of SAP MFB IT control objectives or significant experience in applying risk assessment and management principles and processes.
• Experienced in providing expert knowledge to the senior owners of SAP MFB control issues, supporting them to deliver optimum level of assurance against issues raised by audit for the lowest cost. (MDs, Platform Directors and Senior Management Team Members).
• Expert knowledge of risk management. Professional audit qualifications would be desirable (CISA preferred).

Experience you would be expected to have:

Security Expert: Expert Auditing knowledge of IT Security policies, objectives, controls and remediations and significant experience in a senior IT Auditing and Compliance role.

People Leader: Experience in people management of multi-disciplinary teams. Able to confidently handle the full employee lifecycle, succession plan and create brilliant high performing teams. Forecasting supply and demand of resource requirements based on business needs, projected change and business constraints as well as experience in reviewing the structure of their organisational design to optimise efficiency.

Technical Solutions: Demonstrates a breadth of technical acumen and commercial insight to determine how to solve problems through the use of technology and innovation

Customer Experience: Experience in understanding the fundamental customer experiences that drive NPS, customer satisfaction and churn.

What you'll get in return

• Flexible working options available.
• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 10% on target bonus
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan
• Pension scheme
• Shares Plan
• Flexible benefits: cycle to work, childcare vouchers, healthcare, etc.
• Discounted products

What you need to do now

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