Description
McGregor Boyall are currently working with one of the worlds leading Asset Managers to source a Financial Controls Report Analyst to join their team in Edinburgh on a contract basis.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform management testing of key controls
- Ensure implementation of and compliance with the FCR SOX methodology
- Create and maintain high quality work paper documentation
- Provide advice to the business throughout the SOX process to continually enhance internal controls and create an efficient and effective SOX compliance process
- Understand external audit requirements to provide appropriate internal control and management testing documentation that meets external auditor needs
- Contribute to the documentation and evaluation of control deficiencies
- Maintain status and progress reporting against the SOX program timeline, and specific ad hoc projects as required
- Demonstrate knowledge of key guidance The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
- Commission ("COSO") and other PCAOB and SEC requirements supporting the FCR process
- Communicate effectively both internally and externally to build positive relationships across the business, control functions and with external audit
- Coordinate and collaborate with other risk and control functions (Operational Risk and Internal Audit)
- Effectively articulate risk issues to a variety of stakeholders
- Assist with the development of effective remediation strategies which are optimal and commercial
Qualifications and Skills:
- Experience of prior work
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and internal controls
- Strong project management, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Strong presentation skills - able to present competently to senior stakeholders
- Ability to develop innovative solutions to enhance processes and address control gaps
- Possess a strong internal drive and motivation for continuous improvement
- Possess a high degree of integrity and professional scepticism
- Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully within a deadline-driven environment
- Ability to work collaboratively across a variety of teams
- Experience of conducting risk and controls reviews
- Understanding of technology controls a bonus
- Preferably experience gained in a "Big 4" environment or complex corporate organization, conducting risk and controls reviews within Financial Services (preferably within the asset management sector)
Education:
- Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent
- Professional qualification preferred (eg CA, CPA, IIA), or in-progress
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, age, sexuality, gender identification, or physical ability.