Gresham Hunt have been engaged by a Leading Banking Group who are looking to bring on an Interim Finance Risk & Control professional to support the wider Finance team.
Essential Skills –
- Qualified accountant with experience in Risk and Control or external audit
- Experience of performing controls testing in line with annual test plans
- Working with Finance to ensure that risks and issues are well understood and action plans are completed
- Updating risk and controls logs and systems to ensure that they are recorded correctly
- You will have delivered accurate MI and have experience of the process of ‘Review and Challenge’
- Experience supporting risk assessments and documenting process flows
- Naturally, you will have great communication skills and be confident driving change and making recommendations on how we can improve our function
Project Commentary –
- This position is responsible for Finance controls testing and documentation and making sure we continually improve our risk framework and controls
- Assisting in the preparation and co-ordination of the Risk and Control Self Assessments (RCSAs) across Finance
- Leading on controls testing programs and test of effectiveness
- Assessing both design and execution of controls
- Ensuring appropriate closure of action plans developed in response to ineffective controls/control gaps
- Developing Finance policies and procedures to address the areas of risk/control gaps
- Looking after a library of key process documentation across Finance
- Making recommendations to improve the quality of the first level control framework
- Updating risk and controls logs and systems to make sure that they are recorded correctly
- Working closely with the whole Finance team to understand risks and issues and create appropriate action plans