Job description:
Key responsibilities of the role:
* Acquire a strong knowledge of the accounting control set up quality in the regions/entities placed under your scope.
Detailed responsibilities:
* Build a strong, trust, transparent and efficient two-way communication and partnership with the region/entities/process stakeholders under your coverage.
Accounting Control Plan:
* Ensure that the Group Accounting Control Plan is properly rolled out and monitored in the regions/entities placed under your coverage
* Perform oversight review of control set-ups in the regions/entities under your coverage. Estimate and measure the deficiencies identified in the accounting controls set up under your coverage and prepare associated reports to Senior Management and governance bodies.
* Ensure that Regional Finance teams comply with their control obligations, and that they have fully implemented the Group Accounting Control Plan and all procedures prescribed by the Infinity Platform.
* Perform LOD2 controls on Head Office central teams
Accounting certification:
* To obtain and analyze certificates covering accounting stream from the different entities/regions under your scope.
* To have a good understanding of the production and control set-up of the entities/regions under your scope.
* To have the ability to understanding and report in a concise and precise way the problems faced by entities/regions and the action plans to remediate.
* To contribute to the preparation of the related reports.
Recommendations:
* Monitor recommendations issued by General Inspection / Internal Audit, Regulators and External Auditors in the regions.
Operational Risk Incidents:
* Follow up operational risk incidents involving Finance and their impact on the control framework. Monitor remediation plans and timeline.
Finance Internal Control Committees:
* Hold regular (at least quarterly) Internal Control Committee (FORCC) meetings with the regions/entities of the scope to review the accounting control issues.
* Contribute to the Accounting and Financial Risk Committee (AFRiC) for the allocated regions and transversal topics.
* Hold ad-hoc meetings with Regional Finance when needed.
Other control plans:
* To ensure that any other Controls Plans are properly rolled-out.
Main Tasks:
* Experience in control, finance or audit (preferably in the banking and/or financial sector).
* Strong accounting expertise.
Soft Skills:
* Organizational skills
* Critical thinking
Language Skills
* English