Control Assurance

The primary purpose of your role is to support the ongoing management, maintenance, and assurance of the Financial Controls Framework to ensure compliance with the revised UK Corporate Governance Code, specifically provision 29. This includes delivering the annual scoping exercise, assurance testing, and reporting of controls to cover associated risks. You will be responsible for updating the materiality assessment and categorization of controls in the Financial Controls Framework based on the most recent financial numbers and risk assessment. Additionally, you will assess changes in the business that may impact the materiality of controls and design/implement new controls to cover new risks. Your responsibilities will also include coordinating the rolling self-assessment of Financial Control Framework standards across all business units, providing ongoing training to key stakeholders on the Financial Controls Framework and the assessment process, and reviewing and validating the results of self-assessment responses. You will be required to pull out common themes, understand root causes, and make suggestions for improvement to drive enhancements across the financial controls framework. Furthermore, you will work on setting up and maintaining a Controls SharePoint site, continuously reviewing the Financial Controls Framework and associated processes to identify opportunities for improvement, and supporting the Finance team in managing risk across all areas of Finance. You will collaborate with various stakeholders such as Process and Control Owners, Internal Audit, Ext auditors, Infosys C&C team, and Group Risk to align controls, address control breaches, and enhance controls effectiveness. In addition, your role will involve working on control improvement, best practices, change management activities, documentation enhancement, interface/data controls, and supporting the Finance function with ad-hoc tasks as required. You will also prepare updates for the annual report and Audit Committee as necessary and maintain an instruction manual/master user guide for using Synergi effectively. Overall, your role will play a crucial part in ensuring the effectiveness of the Financial Controls Framework, driving improvements, enhancing controls awareness, and aligning controls to meet regulatory requirements and best practices.,