Partnering with key Finance stakeholders to oversight and challenge the Finance risk and control environment.
Supporting the review & challenge of the Finance risk and control environment, ensuring alignment to Group frameworks, policies, and risk appetite.
Critically reviewing and challenging the Finance Risk Profile, including risks, controls, issues, and action plans.
Managing relationships with risk and control owner teams and acting as their risk and control business partner
Providing guidance, review and challenge to process and control owners in the application of the Risk Management framework for the Finance teams.
Leveraging insights and expertise to help risk and control owners to improve the control environment
Provide input to governance and committee reporting, including clear articulation of risk themes, emerging issues, and areas requiring management action.

Finance risk and control awareness of Operational (Non-Financial) risk categories across accounting processes and systems, with the skills to challenge risk and control owners on the end-to-end management of risk.
Understanding of how Risk Management framework interlocks with Group Policy requirements in the context of Finance operationally, or can demonstrate where this experience has been held within a similar function / business area
Understanding of control management and the practical implementation across relevant business area with a record of leading control design, optimisation, automation, testing and monitoring activities.
Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives at pace
working effectively with all other lines of defence and understands the different but complimentary roles.
Experience with Power Apps, or a strong willingness and aptitude to learn.
And any experience of these would be great Professional Finance qualification – ICAS (or equivalent), ACCA or CIMA

Finance Chief Control Office Manager

Key skills