ICFR Compliance Specialist at De Beers Group

Job Description:

The ICFR Compliance Specialist will be positioned to support De Beers within the Anglo American group with meeting global and local compliance requirements for internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR).

Performance and Delivery

• Work with BU/ Function Leads, Anglo American’s global compliance function and control owners in implementing financial reporting control standards
• Deliver training to BU/Function stakeholders on financial reporting control standards
• sing your knowledge of financial controls proactively identify the impacts of changes in business processes to financial compliance, working with both local and global stakeholders
• Identify opportunities for continual improvement and optimization
• Support control operators to manage and maintain RACMs, enabling robust change management
• Plan and deliver risk-based control reviews, in consultation with local management and Anglo American’s global risk and compliance function
• Evaluate and respond to control testing results, working with relevant stakeholders to create remediation plans, compensating controls and mitigating controls as needed
• Track remediation actions to ensure effective and timely responses to control review outcomes
• Plan and deliver periodic attestation over key controls, in consultation with BU/ Function management and Anglo American’s global risk and compliance function
• Manage local risk relating to Fraud and Segregation of Duties (working in consultation with the global IT function)
• Support relationship with internal, external audit teams including supporting management responses, and align with key internal stakeholder and third-party service providers

People and Team/Leadership

• Build partnerships and maintain strong relationships with all relevant senior management and their teams
• Contribute to the broader business by working with others in such a way that it optimises the overall business results
• Demonstrate behaviour in line with the Group’s values, standards and a professional workplace

Sustainability

• Perform work in line with Anglo American’s Sustainable development framework, ensuring business decisions and objectives are aligned.

Safety & Health

• Demonstrate behaviour in line with safety, health and environmental (SHE) standards and with the Group’s values. This includes leading and adhering to the SHE expectations for your team, ensuring your behaviour meets the required standards and participating in relevant safety audits

Compliance

• Ensure compliance with the Anglo American Values in all work undertaken
•  Apply knowledge within the business to mitigate risk and identify new ways to assess adherence

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Auditing / Finance / Risk
• Professional designation (CPA or CA) required

Knowledge & Technical Skills

• Prior management role within in a Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Environment – i.e. within a SOX registrant; or as Audit or Advisory professional to SOX registrants
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical, project and product management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs
• Translate methodology into pragmatic and value enhancing project outcomes
• Deliver presentations and materials, targeted at the appropriate level to engage senior management
• Manage multiple tasks concurrently and work to deadlines
• Utilise efficient work practices to ensure work is performed at the appropriate level
• Demonstrate proven attention to detail, including the ability to make decisions in conditions of uncertainty