Senior Manager - Financial Controls - Crawley

Join us as a Senior Manager - Financial Controls you will be accountable for evolving the design and implementing a financial control framework across the Finance function. Leading on the adoption and roll out of UK Corporate Governance reform and provide assurance to the wider business and leadership team in support of requirements to make explicit external disclosure on the effectiveness of internal controls.

As a part of developing the controls framework, you will be responsible for advising on controls within the new People and Finance system as well as creating, reviewing existing, and maintaining end-to-end process documents around internal controls, and using your judgment to assess the level of risk and materiality associated with each process. As the subject matter expert on control environments, you will be responsible for identifying any deficiencies in existing processes, and delivering innovative solutions which address the risks identified. It is expected that you will initially work with teams to design and run their self-assessments of processes; as you drive understanding and further controls maturity across the directorate, you will transition into an advisory, "second line of defence" role.

Reporting into the VP - Finance Operations, you will have wide scope to make this role your own, drawing on your experience and knowledge to ensure a successful implementation. You will have high visibility to the Finance Leadership Team and be viewed as a subject matter expert for internal control, responsible for delivering high quality internal controls expertise for the Finance Operations team, as well as the wider Finance function. The role will work closely with the Financial Accounting, Internal Audit teams and external auditors, and you will be expected to influence Senior Management across Finance to engage with and support an enhanced risk and controls culture.

So, if you have experience leading the design, implementation, and continuation of internal financial control frameworks, we would love to hear from you!

Day to day

• Designing and implementing the internal financial control framework whilst influencing a broad spectrum of colleagues across the Finance function and wider business to deliver the required outcomes.


• It is anticipated that establishing a financial controls framework will take c.12mths and that this role will ultimately transition to owning the day-to-day management and continuous improvement of the framework as well as assisting other parts of the business as they develop their own internal controls.


• Developing ongoing monitoring and reporting procedures, which you will use to brief Senior Management and the company's Board on your progress, but also use tools to drive compliance with and continuous improvement of the internal control framework.


• Support the adoption of the financial controls framework going forward by actively coaching and developing wider teams who will ultimately have responsibility for the controls in their own areas.


• Continuously monitor and stay abreast of changes to external governance requirements, leveraging knowledge and good practice from wider industry colleagues to ensure Virgin Atlantic's financial control environment matures at pace.
  
  You will have an accounting qualification and experience within audit or internal control framework such as SOX/ COSO ideally from Big 4 company with strong knowledge of risk assessments and design of appropriate, proportionate controls to optimise processes, identifying areas of improvement.


• Experience in evaluating and managing projects and change initiatives such as implementing a SOX program.


• Demonstrated ability to manage third party relationships for example, outsourced resource providers or external auditors.


• Strong Finance business process knowledge, having led initiatives in the Finance arena.


• Strong communication and negotiation skills and ability to maintain and influence effective internal and external relationships at senior levels.


• Evidence of working independently providing professional reasoning, high level of analytic skills, and financially astute problem-solving skills to distil complex information into clear deliverables against targets.


• Proven capability for prioritising work, working under pressure and delivering to tight deadlines.