Job ID:
34832
Published date:
24-04-2025
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Job ID:
34733
Published date:
22-04-2025
Summary
Want to join a stable firm that has had year on year growth?
Want exposure to working with a FTSE250 client base in the corporate client base? This role is due to business growth and requires someone who has experience of strong business development skills.
The ideal candidate will be:
- Based in London / ability to get to London on a hybrid working basis.
- Fully Qualified with an accounting qualification such as an ACCA/ACA/CPA or even an IIA/CIA
- Experience of SOX and internal controls testing
- Previous experience of working in a consulting firm and being client facing.
- Reporting to senior stakeholder (internal & external)
- Ambitious, keen for future progression.
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Job ID:
34700
Published date:
16-04-2025
Summary
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Finance Manager - Governance, Risk and Control – Clothing & Home |
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Finance |
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Reporting to |
Sophie Carton – Senior Finance Manager, Change & Controls |
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Scope of the role |
You will be the day-to-day contact within our C&H business unit helping to deliver against the group risk and controls strategy. You will provide support to C&H teams (first line of defence) in identifying and monitoring risks, and in maintaining a strong control environment, through ongoing partnering and provision of effective guidance and training. This role requires excellent stakeholder management and communication skills to discuss risk, process and controls with senior finance and non-finance colleagues, supporting consistency and compliance across the function. Whilst the role reports into Finance, you will be expected to work across both the Finance function and the wider C&H business to support initiatives and projects that improve the control environment. |
Key accountabilities, responsibilities, and measures
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M&S is an iconic British retailer focused primarily on own label businesses within Food and Clothing & Home (C&H), as well as M&S Bank. We operate as a family of businesses, selling high-quality, great-value products in the UK and in 71 international markets. Together our 64,000 colleagues across our stores, support centres, warehouses and supply chain serve around 32 million customers each year. Our vision is to be the most trusted retailer, doing the right thing for our customers, with quality products at the heart of everything we do. Our C&H business is in an exciting period of growth, with significant transformation programmes underway to reset the function and set it up to deliver long-term, sustainable, profitable growth for our investors, colleagues, and wider communities. C&H delivers c.48% of M&S group operating profit, selling product across Womenswear, Menswear, Lingerie, Kidswear, Home and Beauty, in stores and through the M&S.com website and app. While primarily an own-brand business, we have a growing external brands department selling some of the nation’s favourite clothing, home and beauty brands – delivered through a mix of brand acquisitions (e.g. Jaeger) and brand partnerships (e.g. Early Learning Centre).
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OUR M&S CULTURE & BEHAVIOURS
Culture is the result of consistent behaviours. It’s what you see week in, week out, in how we work.
Job ID:
34634
Published date:
15-04-2025
Summary
Bunzl Internal Control
Position Description Internal Control Analyst, UK&I
Position Title Internal Control Analyst, Bunzl UK & Ireland
Department/Business Unit Finance, Bunzl UK & Ireland
Reports To Internal Control Manager, Bunzl UK & Ireland
Date July 2022
Role Responsibility & Objectives
Main Function/Purpose
The Internal Control Analyst will provide practical hands-on support to regional management and to all business areas to enable them to design, implement, stabilise and optimise their internal controls. You will report into the Internal Control Manager of Bunzl UK & Ireland, and work alongside a network of Control teams to cascade the new Group Internal Control Programme. You will do this with drive, energy and pragmatism. You approach will be tailored to Bunzl’s highly decentralised, international network of operations. You will win hearts and minds by acting as a true Business Partner. In this way you will ensure effective and efficient control activities, that balance risk and reward, are built in to all our daily activities in a way that adds value to the business. You will support the regional Internal Control Manager in a variety of project work in the areas of internal controls, risk management, compliance, IT, etc. as and when required. Travel is required across UK & Ireland but combined with flexible working.
Detailed Accountabilities/Objectives
• Support the Group Internal Control programme
• Work with the Regional Control Manager to support the Group Internal Control team in London on specific control projects as required
• Scoping of financial processes and control activities
• Act as subject matter expert in the region for internal control methodologies and activities across all processes
• Work with process owners, control owners and other stakeholders to ensure controls are documented to an appropriate standard
• Evaluate existing control design and, where required, recommend improvements
• Work with all stakeholders to ensure that control design improvements are implemented in accordance with agreed timelines
• Coordinate control test work, evaluate findings and report back on required actions
• Critically monitor progress made and provide regular update reports
• Be an ambassador for control improvement across all business areas; Leverage your knowledge of Bunzl operations by sharing best practice
Bunzl Internal Control
• Tracking, monitoring and advising on the remediation and closure of control gaps identified through management testing, control self- assessments or internal/external audit
Direct Reports None
Development Opportunities Opportunities to progress within the Global Internal Controls Team or into a number of finance or commercial roles within Bunzl Group.
Key Contacts
Internal
Regional Internal Control team Business Units finance and leadership teams Central and local IT teams Shared Service team Group Internal Controls team Group Head of internal Audit and Risk Internal Audit team
External External Audits External Consultants (where applicable)
Candidate Background
Education/Qualifications
• Risk and controls specialist with experience in a similar internal audit/internal controls/SOX compliance function and/or one of the Big 4 firms
• Minimum of 2 years relevant experience
• Qualified accountant, internal auditor or equivalent post graduate professional qualification
• Experience of working in a complex, decentralised international environment
Experience & Skills
• Understanding of financial and finance related processes and controls including related IT automated and IT General Controls
• Knowledge of “what good likes like” in respect of control design and operating effectiveness documentation, testing and control methodologies such as scoping, information produced by the entity (IPE), thresholds, sampling etc
• Working knowledge of IT General Controls (ITGC) is an advantage
• Knowledge of key finance systems with a capacity, curiosity and willingness to learn
• Previous experience coordinating and/or auditing under a SOX404 framework (or similar) highly valued
• Experience with the development and delivery of Controls, Risk and Compliance training
• Experience with Governance, Risk and Compliance software an advantage
• Project management and scoping and monitoring progress against work plans
• Knowledge of fraud management programmes and anti-fraud activities and controls
• Exposure to risks and opportunities relating to Shared Service environments
• Enterprise Risk Management processes and reporting
Bunzl Internal Control
Personal Characteristics & Behavioural Traits
• Communication – Confidently communicates with a range of audiences ensuring messages are concise, articulate and impactful, using the most appropriate methods of communication. Fluent English essential.
• Solves Problems – Monitors programs, identifies potential problems, and develops and implements collaborative solutions
• Team Player – Works collaboratively with other members of the Regional team, the broader Bunzl control network and other second/third lines of defence
• Inquisitive and curious – Performs root cause analysis to understand issues and problems, the key drivers behind it, then works with business leaders/risk/process/control owners to define solutions
• Continuous Improvement – Assist and guide others to address emerging challenges and risks and generate support for change initiatives and a continuous improvement environment
• Business and Political Acumen – Understands Bunzl’s business cycle and the execution of strategic goals. Keeps up to date with legal, regulatory, market and technological developments
• Nurtures Strong Relationships and acts as a Business Partner – Builds and sustains relationship with key stakeholders
• Autonomy – Understands what is required, structures time and tasks and puts action plans in place, manages multiple projects and holds people accountable to appropriately achieve outcomes
• Tenacity, Commitment and Personal Drive
• Integrity, Professionalism – exhibits high ethical standards
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Job ID:
34237
Published date:
21-03-2025
Summary
Senior Operational Risk and controls manager - FTSE250 manufacturing
Yorkshire and Midlands based
Up to £85,000 plus car and benefits
Are you experienced in operational controls and audit across a manufacturing (or relevant) sector?
This FTSE250 are developing and increasing strength in their governance offering to the business. As such, this is a brand new role, seeing you leading on implementing, redesigning, and embedding operational controls and risk across the business.
The role will see you exposed to corporate senior management, as well as manufacturing site General Management.
A highly autonomous role, you will be a self starter who will be able to influence, liaise, and sell the value of controls to this business.
The role will report to a Director of HSE, with a dotted line to the Director of audit, risk and controls; as such, a superb level of exposure to a FTSE250.
The role will see you travel to sites across Yorkshire and the Midlands, as well as home working.
Ideal candidate;
- Strong operational risk, controls, and audit experience ideally from a manufacturing sector.
- Excellent ability to liaise with stakeholders and GMs across factories.
- Keen to be face to face with the business where needed.
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