Audit & Compliance Manager

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Compliance Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and internal policies. This exciting opportunity involves working closely with auditors and the finance team to maintain a robust compliance framework. You will be responsible for developing new policies, training staff, and ensuring best practices are followed across the organization. If you are passionate about compliance and eager to make a difference in a dynamic environment, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day

Enhanced Maternity and Adoption Leave

Flexible Working Model

Wellbeing and Health Benefits

Season Ticket Loan

Cycle to Work Scheme

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Experience in compliance reviews and audits.
• Strong understanding of compliance requirements and guidelines.
• Ability to create and implement policies to ensure compliance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with SOX/ICFR and statutory audits.
• Develop and communicate compliance guidelines effectively.
• Train finance and non-finance staff on compliance practices.

Skills

Compliance Management

Audit Coordination

Policy Development

Accounting Principles

Risk Assessment

Education

Degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

Maconomy

Job description

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This role reports to the Financial Controller. You will assist the Financial Controller in ensuring the Main Agency has a robust and efficient approach to compliance.

You will be the main point of contact for auditors on all audits, including statutory audits, SOX/ICFR audits and internal audits. You will also provide support to the EMEA Regional Compliance team on regular compliance tasks.

You will be one of three direct reports for the Financial Controller and will work closely with all members of the extended finance team to facilitate the provision of information to all auditors.

Your responsibilities as the Compliance Manager will also include ensuring best practice guidelines are in place for compliance in respect of SOX/ICFR and statutory audit recommendations, and other areas of compliance. You will devise new policies where necessary, set out clear procedures and policies that are communicated effectively in relation to compliance, and work with agency management to ensure policies and processes align with agency objectives.

Additionally, you will be involved in the training of finance and non-finance staff in good finance practice and updating on accounting regulations.

Key Responsibilities:

Compliance & Policies

Assisting the Financial Controller in the following areas:

• Ensuring best practice guidelines are in place for compliance in respect of SOX/ICFR, statutory audit recommendations and other areas of compliance
• Devising new policies where necessary which are in line with compliance guidelines and are aligned with the agency’s focus on commercial awareness and simplicity
• Setting our procedures and policies that are clear and communicated effectively in relation to compliance
• Ensuring the distribution of such guidelines to the relevant parties
• Setting out a work plan for any changes to systems or procedures as set out by Ogilvy Group, WPP or statutory legislation

Audit

Being the main point of contact for the agency with all audits which take place and ensuring remediation as and when needed.

This will include:

• Statutory and internal audits for the Main agency, and assisting other opcos when requested
• Internal for Sox-ID 1103
• SOX/ICFR for Sox-ID 1103
• ISO-9001: helping the group internal team in charge of this certification on the supplier management and due diligence aspects, and ensuring processes are followed
• GCC (General Computing Control): assisting group internal team and providing relevant financial information
• GRC: updating remediation status for WPP Internal Audit team review
• Working with the Financial Reporting and Commercial Finance Teams to ensure they are aware of their responsibilities in respect of any audits that may take place, and performing internal audits of these teams
• Working with the Financial Controllers in assessing the users’ access of the financial systems in place in the Financial Reporting and Commercial Finance teams

Other Responsibilities

• Maconomy: reviewing and updating the approval hierarchy, including for Pos and Invoices
• Being involved in the training of finance and non-finance staff to ensure compliance, good finance practice, and updating on accounting regulations
• GDPR: attending the committee to update and capture suppliers handling private data
• Ad-Hoc projects as directed by the Financial Controller
• Close collaboration with the rest of the Financial Reporting and Commercial Finance teams

Regional compliance support

Regional compliance reviews: Assist the regional team to perform reviews on compliance reporting submitted by local operating units in EMEA and raise questions where necessary.

Types of reports and key focuses included:

• Quarterly compliance certification – an overall review of the control environment for various perspective e.g. Finance, IT, Data Privacy and Client contractual compliance
• Gift register – Anti-bribery risks
• Finance ICFR self-certification – control design reasonableness and operating effectiveness assessment of finance internal controls.
• Business Risk Map – regional process support

Requirements:

• Experience in regional compliance reviews and audits.
• Excellent knowledge of accounting principles and practices.
• Strong understanding of compliance requirements and guidelines, with the ability to create and implement policies and procedures to ensure compliance.
• Ability to identify areas of risk and develop and implement mitigation strategies.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other teams and departments, including Financial Reporting and Commercial Finance teams.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy in work.
• Ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines.
• Experience working within the advertising/marketing industry is highly desirable.

If you are passionate about compliance and have a proven track record of success in this area, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity to join our team.

How we help you Thrive:

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
• We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
• Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life Assurance

Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for anyone who wants to work at Ogilvy.We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we workmusthave diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or veteran status have no bearing on our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know and we will do everything we can to accommodate.

At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.

We believe in building powerful teamswithpurpose. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities – and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.

Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.