Grafton Banks Finance are working with a growing business in West Sussex to recruit a Controls Accountant. This role is responsible for supporting for the design and maintenance of the Group's financial controls framework together with the wider finance senior leadership team.

• Support the design and continual monitoring of the groups financial control framework, across finance and the wider business

• Provide appropriate monitoring and escalation is in place on key operating financial metrics

• Support the administration of training and maintenance of key policy and procedure documentation across the Group. Provide association reviews and evidence across the teams

• Provide reviews of business and finance change for key control identification, control weakness and gaps requiring mitigating controls. Working with business and change leaders to ensure these are understood and accepted into the change delivery programme

• Conduct investigation, review and initial recommendations following a material error, omissions of evidence of lack of oversight in a financial transaction (s) across the Group

• Working with Compliance, Risk and internal audit ensure the finance KRI's, risk control framework and key controls are resilient, proportionate, and effective

• Support the ongoing review and continuous improvement of controls, across all of finance, in place for the preparation of all financial statements (internal and external reporting)
  • Provide cover during absence for the Financial Control Manager

• Support administration of horizon monitoring in financial service regulatory change that could impact the group, provide assessments and recommendations across the finance functions and SFLT

• Conduct deep dives across the business and within finance of key financial transactional processing to ensure proportionate and appropriate controls are in place, providing a written assessment for the relevant business owner

• Conduct colleague management duties including:

- Delivering coaching and feedback to direct reports to achieve KPI's and SLA's, and conducting regular performance reviews, includingprobationary reviews and annual appraisals as necessary.

- Deal with all colleague issues including monitoring absence and conducting disciplinaries

- Assist the recruitment process where necessary.

To be considered for this role you will have the following experience

• Internal or external audit experience
• Newly qualified or significant relevant accounting experience
• Desirable to have previous exposure in a group accounting function across multiple tax and regulatory jurisdictions
• Desirable to have previous exposure in SOX, COSO frameworks across a multi divisional group