Finance Controls Manager

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail organization in Welwyn Garden City is seeking a Finance Controls Specialist to enhance its financial controls framework and provide mentorship. You will work closely with various teams to ensure compliance and drive improvements in financial processes. This role offers a blend of office and remote work, with a comprehensive benefits package including a bonus scheme, healthcare, and generous leave policies.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme up to 20% of base salary

25 days holiday plus personal day

Private medical insurance

Generous maternity and paternity leave

24/7 virtual GP service and mental wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Proven track record in implementing and testing internal controls.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively communicate and tailor information to various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing the integrity of core financial checks.
• Crafting the annual control monitoring program.
• Performing quality assurance over control testing.
• Preparing reports on control testing results.
• Providing advice on controls and delivering training.

Skills

Accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Experience in internal controls

Solid understanding of key financial process cycles

Job description

Overview

Tesco UK • Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City • Permanent • Apply by 15-Oct-2025

Reporting into the Head of Financial Controls, you will be responsible for crafting and embedding our Key Financial Controls Framework across Finance. You\'ll be closely involved in the daily functioning of our finance processes, working with different collaborators to offer expert mentorship on financial controls composition.

Strengthening Tesco\'s control environment will be a key objective, particularly in light of recent corporate governance reform, and this position will sit within the team tasked with making these things happen, providing significant opportunity to raise your profile across the Group.

In the team you\'ll be surrounded by a group of other expert risk and control professionals, who are available for support and discussion, but you\'re also given the independence and autonomy to go about your role in the way that best suits you.

The hiring manager for this vacancy is Haris Dar

What is in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years\' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

Responsibilities

• Analysing the integrity of our core financial checks by conducting process walkthroughs and collaborating with control owners and Global Process Owners.
• Crafting our annual control monitoring programme and ongoing review and update to our internal control methodology.
• Performing quality assurance over control testing performed by junior resources.
• Preparing reporting, including to Senior Management and the Audit Committee, on the results of our control testing.
• General ad hoc second line of defence activities - providing advice to the first line on controls, preparing and delivering training on controls, investigating control failures.
• Supporting our controls culture, running training, information sessions and building control communities.

Requirements

• Accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Experience in internal controls, preferably financial controls, covering design, implementation, improvement or testing.
• Solid understanding of key financial process cycles (e.g. Record to Report, Procure to Pay).

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we\'re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you\'re just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we\'re here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We\'re proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone\'s welcome. That\'s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you\'re interested in joining our team but don\'t tick every box, don\'t let that hold you back from applying.