Shape and establish the scope, responsibilities and ways of working for a newly created cross-process SME role within Global Financial Controls & Compliance.
Drive stronger collaboration, knowledge sharing and best-practice adoption across process SME teams, helping reduce silos and build consistent approaches.
Partner with Global Process Owners, FC&C Operations, Group Methodology, IT application controls teams and external auditors to align control design, remediation and methodology requirements.
Lead cross-process coordination and project management activities, ensuring priorities, dependencies, decisions and actions are clearly managed.
Strengthen IT application controls capability across the SME team, acting as an ambassador for system-enabled controls, automated controls, workflows and configuration considerations.
Support the evolution of the control environment in the context of S/4HANA / Lean Digital Core transformation, helping translate business and system change into robust control design.
Identify opportunities to harmonize, simplify and improve global controls processes, including opportunities for digital enablement, automation and more efficient monitoring.

10+ years experience in finance controls, internal controls, risk, audit, compliance or related areas within a global, matrixed organization.
Strong understanding of Internal Control over Financial Reporting, SOX / SOX 404 requirements, control design, remediation and control testing environments.
Experience working with IT application controls, automated controls, system workflows, segregation of duties or finance systems control environments.
Proven ability to work cross-process, connect stakeholders, diagnose gaps and translate complex requirements into pragmatic ways of working.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across Finance, Digital / IT, audit, methodology and operations teams.
Strong project management, coordination and change management capability, with a track record of driving clarity and momentum across multiple priorities.
Fluency in written and spoken English and at least one additional European language; additional language skills are advantageous.

Senior Manager, Global Financial Controls and Compliance

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