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Job ID: 43765
Location: Birmingham : 1 Trinity Park : Bi
Position Category: Finance
Position Type: Employee Regular
Role Purpose
The Head of Financial Controls plays a critical role in strengthening the organization’s financial control environment with a primary emphasis on risk identification, mitigation, and compliance. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring robust internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR), evaluating control effectiveness, and aligning financial processes with risk management principles and regulatory standards.
Key Activities
- Develop and maintain a risk‑based internal control framework aligned with COSO and other best practices.
- Identify, assess, and monitor financial reporting risks and related controls across the Group.
- Conduct control testing and risk assessments to evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of key controls.
- Coordinate with enterprise risk management (ERM) to ensure financial risks are integrated into the overall risk register.
- Monitor compliance with internal policies, external regulations, and accounting frameworks such as IFRS, and local GAAP.
- Collaborate with operational risk, internal audit, and compliance teams to ensure consistent risk governance.
- Ad hoc projects as requested by the Director of group reporting.
- Provide risk-focused reporting and recommendations to senior leadership and audit committees.
- Facilitate internal training to promote a strong control and risk awareness culture across the business.
- Support risk mitigation strategies and business continuity planning related to financial processes.
Qualifications and experience
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CA or equivalent) with demonstrable up‑to‑date knowledge of UK Adopted IFRS and FRS102.
- Experience with ERP and analytics systems.
- Advanced user of Microsoft Excel.
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong working relationships.
- Culturally sensitive in implementing initiatives and solutions across teams in different Areas and Business Streams.
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Job ID: 43765Location: Birmingham : 1 Trinity Park : BiPosition Category: FinancePosition Type: Employee Regular
Role Purpose
The Head of Financial Controls plays a critical role in strengthening the organization’s financial control environment with a primary emphasis on risk identification, mitigation, and compliance. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring robust internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR), evaluating control effectiveness, and aligning financial processes with risk management principles and regulatory standards.
Key Activities
- Develop and maintain a risk‑based internal control framework aligned with COSO and other best practices.
- Identify, assess, and monitor financial reporting risks and related controls across the Group.
- Conduct control testing and risk assessments to evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of key controls.
- Coordinate with enterprise risk management (ERM) to ensure financial risks are integrated into the overall risk register.
- Monitor compliance with internal policies, external regulations, and accounting frameworks such as IFRS, and local GAAP.
- Collaborate with operational risk, internal audit, and compliance teams to ensure consistent risk governance.
- Ad hoc projects as requested by the Director of group reporting.
- Provide risk-focused reporting and recommendations to senior leadership and audit committees.
- Facilitate internal training to promote a strong control and risk awareness culture across the business.
- Support risk mitigation strategies and business continuity planning related to financial processes.
Qualifications and experience
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CA or equivalent) with demonstrable up‑to‑date knowledge of UK Adopted IFRS and FRS102.
- Experience with ERP and analytics systems.
- Advanced user of Microsoft Excel.
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong working relationships.
- Culturally sensitive in implementing initiatives and solutions across teams in different Areas and Business Streams.
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