Head of Internal Control and Financial Risk Permanent

Head of Internal Controls and Financial Risk

Circa £135,000 + excellent benefits and bonus

Central London/Hybrid

Consumer Facing Sector (Technology/Entertainment/Retail)

This market leading, rapidly growing, £multi-billion revenue global business engages with consumers around the world. It has revolutionised its sector, giving customers an unrivalled experience as they engage with its technology led entertainment products.

Having made several acquisitions over the past 5 years with more in the pipeline, this agile and dynamic business is taking its next step of development and maturity.

As part of that journey, the business has created the role of Head of Internal Controls and Financial Risk.

Reporting to the Group CFO and leading the Group’s Financial Risk and Controls function (including Internal Audit), the role will include:

• Developing a risk management framework to address financial controls and compliance requirements
• Review of key finance processes to assess control weakness
• Establish the vision for a futureproof internal control environment
• Implementation and design of controls, and testing of those controls
• Collaborating with finance transformation teams to identify areas to enhance processes to mitigate risk, including automation and improved audit trails
• Developing internal audit plans, oversee reviews and reporting of findings
• Co-ordinating regularly with relevant teams, departments, and key stakeholders to collate areas of concern, control deficiencies identified and monitoring of remediation progress
• Acting as the central point for co-ordination of documentation pertain to finance policies and processes, and evidence of compliance with processes
• Communication of risk areas and progress against plans put in place to address weaknesses with key stakeholders, including reporting to the Executive Leadership team, the Board, and the Group’s Auditors
• Sharing of best practices across the organisation and providing training to appropriate teams
• Create and lead a Financial Risk and Control team, including short-term and long-term objective setting, and ensuring it is adequately resourced

Candidate profile requirements:

• Chartered accountant, audit trained
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of accounting processes and internal control frameworks
• Will have established and scaled an internal controls framework and function across a large, listed environment
• Strong commercial acumen
• First class communication and influencing skills
• Comfortable engaging with exec level stakeholders
• Ability to simply summarise complex financial data
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.