Financial Control Manager (12 Months FTC) at Collinson

Purpose of the role 

• The Group Reporting Team is committed to providing robust financial information with meaningful insight and driving ongoing enhancements to financial reporting processes and financial controls.
• As part of the Group Reporting Team, you will be responsible for supporting the roll-out, embedding and maintenance of the Minimum Control Framework Requirements across the Group.
• Your role will involve collaboration with global finance teams and global process owners to support the enhancement and embedding of best practice controls, as defined in our Minimum Control Requirements Policy, and facilitate self-assessment processes to ensure control effectiveness and compliance to control requirements.
• The role combines a requirement for knowledge of financial processes, systems, and controls with good communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to demonstrate initiative, strong analytical skills, attention to detail and to prioritise effectively are also key to the role.
• Collinson is a dynamic business, undergoing a period of significant transformation, and the role will support on related projects.

Key Responsibilities 

Controls and policy work, including:

• Support roll-out of new minimum control requirements across relevant processes and geographies;
• Assist finance teams and global process owners in interpreting and applying minimum control requirements and best practice for controls in their processes;
• Deliver training to aid the embedding of minimum control requirements;
• Support finance teams and global process owners in completing self-assessments of their control environments;
• Monitor the completion, and quality of self-assessment certifications through interviews and reviews, identify gaps and areas for improvement
• Support remediation planning and progress tracking where control weaknesses are identified.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the Financial Control Framework and associated governance processes.
• As Collinson is a dynamic business, and currently undergoing a period of significant transformation, the role will be involved in other ad-hoc finance projects as these arise.

Knowledge, skills and experience required 

• The successful applicant will ideally have a recognised accountancy qualification (ACCA/ACA or overseas equivalent) and demonstrable experience with control frameworks. Either implementing or managing controls in a finance or operational environment.
• Strong understanding of financial processes and controls
• Strong analytical skills and an eye for detail
• Strong communication skills and ability to maintain good working relationships with global subsidiary finance teams
• Comfortable delivering training
• Able to prioritise effectively and ability to handle multiple tasks
• Ability to work as part of a global or multi-functional team and be collaborative
• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint and Word