Controls Framework Regional Lead

Job Purpose and Impact

• This role sets goals and objectives for the achievement of operational results for the team responsible for deploying global internal control policies, processes and tools for financial reporting risk management in support of efficient operations, reliable financial reporting and compliance with laws, regulations and corporate policies. This job leads the team to provide guidance and coordination across all constituents or partners in terms of risk management and serves as management's liaison between the third and the first line of defense. This job also manages the implementation of centralized monitoring of financial reporting risk management process effectiveness through various forms of evaluation and testing. 

Key Accountabilities

• CONTROL FRAMEWORK DESIGN: Oversees the design, monitoring and enhancement of the organization's financial control framework. Document process flows, identify risk and controls, perform design assessments as per COSO methodology.
• CONTROL FRAMEWORK TESTING: Oversee the control testing, design testing procedures, review control testing of team, identify control gaps, perform financial assessment and consult for remediation of control issues and follow of remediation to fix control gaps. All as per COSO methodology  
• CONTROL FRAMEWORK SELF ASSESSMENT: Oversee  
• REPORTING: Monitors status of design and testing assessments, prepare reports to evaluate control health, articulates and gets agreement on the control issues. Discussion of the reporting with relevant internal partners and stakeholders. 
• PLANNING & REPORTING SOLUTION EFFICIENCY: Leads the team to collaborate with various internal partners in the process of scoping, obtaining information for design and operating assessments and discussion of the control issues and reporting. 
• TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVES: Leads the implementation of financial internal controls transformation initiatives globally to drive process clarity and simplification.  
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Encourages continuous improvement efforts by enabling teams to see opportunities to improve reporting processes, frameworks, procedures and technology. 
• TEAM MANAGEMENT: Manages team members to achieve the organization's goals, by ensuring productivity, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, recognizing achievement and lessons learned, and developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in an inclusive team culture 
• Lead, mentor and develop internal control specialists and make them experts in internal control processes and COSO methodology. Review work of internal control specialists to ensure quality, reperformance standards and whether in line with COSO methodology.  

Qualifications

• Qualified CA with 6-8 years of post qualification experience in internal controls or audit. 
• Good knowledge of all business processes (RTR, PRTP, OTSC, FA, Treasury, Tax, etc) 
• Strong understanding and experience in  COSO methodology or other internal control framework standards. 
• Excellent communication and articulation skills.