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Senior Manager -Controls SOX

Brimstone Consulting
Posted a month ago, valid for 4 days
Location

Manchester, Greater Manchester M17 1DJ, England

Salary

£48,000 - £57,600 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position of Senior Manager in Risk, Controls, and SOX is available in Manchester, Leeds, or Liverpool with a hybrid work model of 2-3 days WFH.
  • Candidates should have at least 5 years of relevant experience and be accountancy qualified (ACA, ACCA, MIIA or equivalent).
  • The role involves leading internal control projects, delivering US SoX testing, and providing advisory services while ensuring adherence to risk management and quality control procedures.
  • A competitive salary is offered, although the exact figure is not specified in the job description.
  • The ideal candidate will possess strong knowledge of UK reporting standards and have experience in risk management and internal audit.

Risk, Controls, SOX - Senior Manager

Location: Manchester or Leeds ideally (maybe Liverpool) (Hybrid WFH 2-3 days)

Our client a leading global advisory firm and winner of many awards has an outstanding culture and offers support, progression and an emphasis on work/life balance (plus strong benefits).

The Role

To support senior members of the team including assisting with strategy, to drive marketing and business development. Your role will include delivery of US SoX testing, design and implementation of controls as well as ad- hoc advisory services.

Responsibilities

  • Lead projects professionally, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the service.
  • Scoping and delivering internal control projects including identifying and documenting process flows, risk and controls, identify deficiencies and remediate. Lead on assurance testing of controls (testing the design, effectiveness and evaluation).
  • Review the work of managers and more junior members, providing constructive feedback to enable their development and technical ability.
  • In addition to internal controls and SOX capabilities, you will have a rounded business knowledge, able to analyse client data, make recommendations and talk credibly to clients on the issues they face. You will also have a good working knowledge of IFRS and FRS 102 accounting standards.
  • Display judgement on when to escalate issues to management or involve other experts to support clients.
  • Ensure risk management and quality control procedures are adhered to.
  • Identify and recognise business and sales opportunities with new and existing clients.
  • Engage in networking and building internal and external relationships to identify new business and sales opportunities.
  • Scope new projects and construct accurate fee proposals and budgets for review.
  • Collaborating on the day-to-day management of the pipeline, ensuring all opportunities are recorded and proactively followed up.
  • Monitors delivery against a project plan and intervenes or escalates issues to management as necessary to ensure engagements stay within budgets.
  • Support the management team with the implementation and communication of any new business strategy for existing clients or target clients.

Skills / Qualifications

  • Accountancy Qualified: ACA, ACCA, MIIA or equivalent
  • SOX experience or experience with UK internal controls frameworks
  • Awareness of compliance, legislative and market issues relevant to client businesses
  • Ability to prioritise and plan effectively, adopting a logical and methodical approach in order to meet tight deadlines and balance client needs
  • Knowledge of Microsoft packages including Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Desirable

  • Experience in a practice within a manager capacity
  • Experience of risk management, internal audit and systems/controls testing
  • Strong working knowledge of UK reporting standards (including UK GAAP and UK-adopted IFRS) and related financial reporting requirements
  • Microsoft Visio experience (or a similar software)
  • Power BI experience

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About Brimstone Consulting: We specialise in finding highly qualified staff in the following areas:Forensic Accounting & Fraud - (AML/CTF, Investigation, CFE’s etc.); Legal and LegalTech (E-Discovery, Digital Forensics, EDRM); Big Data and Data Analytics- (MI/BI/CI);InfoSec and Cyber Crime; Audit; Accountancy and Finance; FinTech (Payments etc.);Risk - (Credit, Regulatory, Liquidity, Market, Analysts-SAS, SPSS etc.);Compliance/Corporate Governance ;IT- (full SDLC- BA’s PM’s , Architects, Developers etc.);

Brimstone Consulting acts as an employment agency (permanent) and as an employment business (temporary) - a free and confidential service to candidates. Brimstone Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. Due to time constraints we can only reply to applicants that match our clients’ specifications. We may store applications in our cloud storage facilities that may include dropbox.

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