Financial Controls Manager

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65507 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent Warning: When posting this job advertisment on an external job board, the length of the following fields combined must not exceed 3950 characters: "External Posting Description", "External Posting Footer"
Role Description Salary circa £70k - Guildford (hybrid 2 days a week in office)

Join our dynamic new team as a Financial Controls Specialist, where you'll be instrumental in designing and establishing a cutting-edge financial controls framework within our UK finance function. This initiative aims to elevate the quality of finance-owned controls, address any identified gaps, and enhance stakeholder transparency through comprehensive reporting. You'll also play a pivotal role in transitioning to innovative software solutions, moving away from traditional spreadsheets to ensure consistency and standardisation in our documentation processes. Additionally, you will support Non-Financial Risk Management (NFRM) reporting to our Risk Function.

Key Responsibilities

• As part of the project team, develop and integrate a robust financial controls framework across the UK finance function.
• Develop high-standard processes and controls documentation, identifying both new and existing controls.
• Detect and address any control gaps, ensuring comprehensive remediation.
• Design and implement test plans, scripts, and cycles, providing guidance to control owners.
• Facilitate the adoption of a new workflow tool to manage and sustain the framework on a Business As Usual (BAU) basis.
• Ensure timely remediation of any control weaknesses or failed tests of operating effectiveness.
• Streamline, rationalise, and automate controls to maximise efficiency and effectiveness.
• Manage communications with key stakeholders, including process owners, and prepare reports for senior management to enhance financial controls visibility.
• Advocate for the significance of financial controls, educating the finance function and beyond on the new framework's role and importance.
• Liaise with external auditors who may request controls information to support the UK external audit cycle.
• Assist with the completion of all Non-Financial Risk Management (NFRM) reporting to the Risk function.
• Collaborate with Internal Audit as required.

About You

• Proven experience in documenting and managing financial processes and controls within a finance function.
• Internal and/or external audit experience.
• Expertise in finance process improvement, including automation, rationalisation, and redesigning processes and controls.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, engaging both finance and non-finance personnel.
• Proficiency in planning and facilitating workshops of various sizes.
• Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or CIA) or equivalent relevant experience.
• Extensive experience in finance or financial controls teams, or within external/internal audit.
• Capability to challenge the status quo and enhance the control environment with stronger, more effective controls.
• Insurance experience is beneficial but not mandatory.
• Familiarity with workflow tools is advantageous.
• Knowledge of SOX or other financial controls frameworks is a plus.
• Experience in mentoring junior staff members.

If you are ready to take on a pivotal role in shaping our financial controls framework and drive excellence in our finance function, we encourage you to apply.

What We Will Offer You Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that's perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That's on top of enjoying all the benefits you'd expect from the world's number one insurance brand, including:

• 25 days holiday
• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts

Our Ways of WorkingDo you need some flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it's right for our customers, our business and for you, then we'll do everything we can to make it happen.

Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Diversity & InclusionAt Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it's assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Accessible Application for AllAs part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.

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