The Financial Controls Team is headquartered in Woking , the Nomad Foods Head Office.
The team support Group functions, Shared Finance Centre (Hammersmith) and markets which are UK and other European countries.
The Team manages several aspects of the Financial Controls Framework, supporting global process owners to understand and manage risk, helping control owners to comply with Financial Controls, and working with testing teams (both internal and external) to ensure smooth audits.
This role will have specific responsibility for supporting the Head of Internal Controls to embed and sustain the Financial Controls Framework across Nomad operations.
Our controls frameworks are going through an exciting period of redesign in 2026, which includes a new IT controls framework, additional IT application coverage and more extensive use of the controls tool Workiva.
This role will be the group expert and lead on the implementation, communication, training, monitoring and improvement of:
group/central (group RACM and Entity Level) including Acquisition controls;
Workiva; and
cash management (bank account and related areas) process controls.
The role also provides expertise/support to IT controls and advocates for/supports the embedding all financial controls within our frameworks.
The role holder will be expected to:
Be the group expert and lead on the group/central controls (group RACM and Entity Level Controls): partner the group consolidation Global Process Owner design and maintain the Entity Level and Acquisition Controls, including at least an annual refresh and handholding related control owners fully understanding the risks, as well as controls / mitigation activities communicate and educate stakeholders on risks, controls and testing participate in relevant committees / regular meetings to keep abreast of related organisation and operational changes
partner the group consolidation Global Process Owner
design and maintain the Entity Level and Acquisition Controls, including at least an annual refresh and handholding related control owners
fully understanding the risks, as well as controls / mitigation activities
communicate and educate stakeholders on risks, controls and testing
participate in relevant committees / regular meetings to keep abreast of related organisation and operational changes
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Support the operation of group/central (group RACM and Entity Level) including Acquisition controls: work with the control owners to ensure they understand what is expected of them with respect to controls proactive and pre-emptive focus on group acquisitions to ensure controls are planned and executed without deficiencies proactive and pre-emptive focus on ‘significant unusual transaction’ controls due to infrequent performance ensure assurance activities are scheduled and delivered to plan handhold non-Finance control owners so that they are confident in their control activities
work with the control owners to ensure they understand what is expected of them with respect to controls
proactive and pre-emptive focus on group acquisitions to ensure controls are planned and executed without deficiencies
proactive and pre-emptive focus on ‘significant unusual transaction’ controls due to infrequent performance
ensure assurance activities are scheduled and delivered to plan
handhold non-Finance control owners so that they are confident in their control activities
Be the group expert and lead on the cash management process controls: partner the cash management Global Process Owner in financial control activities such as deficiency remediation fully understanding the risks, as well as controls / mitigation activities clearly communicate control activities in an easy to understand way to relevant Nomad employees participate in relevant committees / regular meetings to keep abreast of related operational changes update the framework for any changes in operations
partner the cash management Global Process Owner in financial control activities such as deficiency remediation
fully understanding the risks, as well as controls / mitigation activities
clearly communicate control activities in an easy to understand way to relevant Nomad employees
participate in relevant committees / regular meetings to keep abreast of related operational changes
update the framework for any changes in operations
Be the group expert and lead on use of Workiva to support controls performance: use external radar and networking to identify enhancement opportunities maintain the system support users deploy the tool wherever it is advantageous for Nomad to do so, improve dashboarding / visibility to support controls culture
use external radar and networking to identify enhancement opportunities
maintain the system
support users
deploy the tool wherever it is advantageous for Nomad to do so, improve dashboarding / visibility to support controls culture
Support the Head of IT Governance on the maintenance and implementation of IT controls, including: General Controls Application Controls User Access
General Controls
Application Controls
User Access
Support the Head of Financial Controls with other ad-hoc and planned tasks such as: create and deliver general controls training assist in driving a standardised and consistent approach to controls drive cultural shift and behaviours regarding controls and accountabilities coordinate and support internal and external audit activities monitor the progress of audit finding remediation identify opportunities to standardize, simplify and improve processes to drive balanced risk management
create and deliver general controls training
assist in driving a standardised and consistent approach to controls
drive cultural shift and behaviours regarding controls and accountabilities
coordinate and support internal and external audit activities
monitor the progress of audit finding remediation
identify opportunities to standardize, simplify and improve processes to drive balanced risk management
Essential
Working within Internal Audit, Internal Controls or specific SOX experience
Accounting or controls qualification
University degree or equivalent
Good interpersonal skills and ability to act in a professional manner with the skills to influence others
Excellent communication skills and able to deliver information orally and written
An ability to gather, analyse and evaluate facts
Pays attention to detail and sees things through to completion
Meets deadlines
Have an enquiring and questioning approach to work
Desirable
FMCG/ foods
Accounting qualification
Big 4 firm
Be a self-starter who manages their own time and seeks to add value to the role