Description
Finance Risk Analyst (German Speaking)/£300 per day/6 months initially
Finance Risk Analyst wanted by one of the worlds leading and most successful FMCG organisations to support on the implementation of new centralised SOX controls.
Finance Risk Analyst will be working on a project that is focused on lifting SOX controls from local markets, optimising and centralising them.
Finance Risk Analyst will be focusing on the German market. As such, full working proficiency with German is essential for this role. In addition, French would be considered a benefit.
Finance Risk Analyst will suit candidates from an Internal Audit background with solid exposure to SOX controls in a large scale multi national environment.
Finance Risk Analyst KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Engage with local compliance team to acquire adequate understanding of local operations re. controls performance, processes and systems and control owners, to facilitate the delivery of the pilot testing plan and support both the local management and third-party testing team during the testing pilot and year-end testing.
- Deliver the pilot testing plan for the market assigned as per the plan and derive key learnings for the planning of the year-end testing as well as identify critical success factors to develop a standard approach for lift & shift of local controls testing activities to the central team for future markets
- Following the pilot, plan the year-end testing plan for SOX reporting for the market assigned
- Monitor testing execution by the third party to ensure adequate progress, adequacy of testing results and quality of their testing documentation, analysis of control deficiencies and observations with local teams to ensure adequate remediation.
- Engage with the local team to address and resolve any operational issues or escalations during the testing pilot on both sides to ensure successful execution of the testing within the agreed timelines.
- Provide regular updates to the FS Risk Manager EMEA/UK role and to the FS Risk Management Director on the progress of the pilot and testing and raise any significant issue that require their attention.
- Provide regular updates to the Controls Testing Centralization project manager (PMO) responsible for the overall management and coordination of the program for all markets.
Finance Risk Analyst is a contract role for an initial period of 6 months offering a daily rate up to 3 months.
I MUST stress, in order to be considered for this role candidates should have internal AUDIT in a large scale, multinational SOX environment.