SOX / Controls Tester

Overview

We are looking for a Deputy Group Company Secretary. Our client is a global trading organisation.

Role: Deputy Group Company Secretary

We are looking for a commercially minded and analytically capable professional to join a global trading organisation in London.

Date: 20 Aug 2024
Sector: FINANCE / ACCOUNTING
Type: Contract
Location: London
Salary: £40000 - 50000 per annum
Email:
Ref: BT9732

Controls and Operations Tester

Position: Controls and Operations Tester (6 month contract) to c£45,000. For a candidate with relevant professional experience in a controls / regulatory / audit role and some knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley and Solvency II this could be an excellent opportunity to join the London office of this global insurance underwriters. The successful candidate will work closely with the Controls and Data Assurance Manager.

Duties

• Monitoring, maintaining, and improving the internal controls framework in accordance with management and regulatory requirements.
• Improving operational effectiveness and efficiency through the delivery of best practice process standards and continuous key process improvement.
• Participate in regular self-certifications / attestations and testing as part of the internal control and data quality framework, including the testing of EUCs, calculations / reports and ITGCs.
• Prepare reporting to key audiences, including Governance committees, based on each period's self-assessments and KPI's, communicating areas of concern, improvements and changes to control and data frameworks.
• Ensure key controls are designed and operating effectively throughout the year. Work with the business areas to identify new and changed processes impacting compliance / consult over new processes to be implemented, and ensure that new controls and datasets are identified, documented and evaluated in a timely manner.
• Maintain the process framework (comprising of a central process library with departmental process maps, procedures and policies, together with cycle documentation detailing key cross departmental data flows & controls).
• Creation of new business units and modifications of the business unit hierarchy to align with strategic goals
• Support the CDA Manager with other regular and ad-hoc tasks as needed.