Head of Internal Control

3 semanas atrás


Porto, Portugal Unilabs Tempo inteiro

The Head of Internal Controls will oversee and development of a robust internal controls culture and environment through formalization of key controls, policies, and procedures, and ensuring their monitoring. The position reports to the Head of Reporting and Tax and 4 direct reports. The position will be highly visible and impactful within the group as well as the audit and risk committee of the Board.

Main Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 4 professionals and role model a leadership style which is inclusive, proactive, respectful, change agile, innovative/creative and results driven with a strong customer service focus.
- Build and develop talent, and drive a compliance and continuous improvement mindset in the organization and develop and execute training in the defined areas of process expertise
- Ensure and drive design, implementation, continuous improvement and monitoring of the Group’s internal control framework, through:

- Support and coach operating entities in implementing and adjusting defined controls in the core operations.
- Ensure process controls are adequately designed to address all identified risks while simplifying and automating controls whenever possible
- Training of control owners in operating entities.
- Oversee and conduct 2nd line of defence reviews to monitor compliance against Unilabs group policies and procedures and local regulations.
- Identify key control gaps and define mitigating solutions
- Coach, drive and support the operating entities in implementing mitigating solutions and ensure remediation actions are swiftly taken
- Develop and update policies and processes to prevent gaps occurring going forward.
- Identify key risk areas and recommend, coordinate appropriate risk treatment
- Ensure closure of internal and external audit. Share best practices and learnings.
- Oversee advisory in the controls design and implementation of multiple enterprise IT systems (e.g. MD365, Oracle, Coupa and Tagetik).
- Ensure automation of controls. Partner with Finance transformation team to ensure alignment between system and process step-outs and controls.
- Reduce the overall number of SoD conflicts across systems and processes.
- Ensure critical transactions are only granted to the right users
- Be a catalyst in finding an optimal balance between maintaining a sound control environment with efficiency and pragmatism. Ensure transparent, reliable and agile stakeholder management.
- Drive continuous process control improvements, define solutions and lead the implementation
- The position will be located in a Unilabs office in (CITIES TO BE COMPLETED LATER) and has a 30% travel component, predominantly in Europe and UAE.

**Requirements**:

- University degree and preferably a professional qualification in relevant fields such as Business and Economics, Finance and Accounting, Compliance.
- Professional experience of 8+ years in Big 4 audit firm or multinational with good understanding of COSO and internal control requirements.
- Leadership experience previously managed a team of professionals.
- Ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Be curious, solution oriented and practical when identifying gaps and risks and recommending improvements. Analytical, forensic mindset and ability to understand situations, interdependencies and challenges in a holistic way.
- Process excellence with focus on risk management and driving process performance and excellence. Strong continuous improvement and innovative mindset. Lean / Six Sigma Certified preferred.
- Excellent organizational, prioritization, pro active and interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English with preferably good knowledge in 1 or 2 other European languages.
- Excellence in Microsoft Office Suite (including Access). Preferably knowledge of MS D365 and Tagetik as well as interrogation / data analytics software.



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