Internal Controls Senior Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Internal Controls professionals.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business and functional leaders on governance, risk, and internal control matters.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to embed effective controls into new processes, systems, and transformation initiatives.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior business leaders, Finance, Operations, IT, HR, Legal, and Compliance teams across the Group.
• Facilitate regular engagement meetings with Regional and Functional Leadership teams to discuss key control risks, improvement opportunities, and emerging concerns.
• Provide guidance on control design for new business activities, acquisitions, system implementations, and process changes.
• Promote a culture of accountability, risk awareness, and control ownership across the organization.
• Support Executive Leadership, Audit Committee, and Board reporting preparation.
• Lead fraud risk awareness initiatives across the Group and assess the effectiveness of controls to prevent, detect, and respond to fraud risks.
• Lead and coordinate the Group's J-SOX compliance programme, including risk assessment, control testing, deficiency evaluation, remediation oversight, and management reporting.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for Local Finance teams, Internal Audit, and External Audit on matters relating to internal controls and business processes across the Group.
• Analyse trends in control deficiencies and identify opportunities to strengthen the control environment and drive continuous improvement.
• Monitor management's progress against agreed action plans arising from internal controls reviews, internal audit, and external audit findings.
• Lead the continuous enhancement of the Group Internal Control Framework, including maintaining the Internal Controls Manual and delivering training and awareness programmes across the Group.
• Lead assessments of user access management and Segregation of Duties (SoD) risks in ERP, and ensure appropriate controls exist over the provisioning, modification, and revocation of system access.