Risk, Controls, SOX - Senior Manager

Brimstone Consulting; Leeds, Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Manager for Risk and Controls to lead critical projects in a hybrid work environment. This role emphasizes delivering US SoX testing, designing controls, and providing advisory services. You will collaborate with senior team members, ensuring quality and adherence to risk management protocols while developing junior staff. The position offers a supportive culture that values work/life balance and provides opportunities for professional growth. If you are a qualified accountant with a passion for risk management and client engagement, this role is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with SOX experience and knowledge of compliance issues.
• Strong planning skills to manage tight deadlines and client needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead internal control projects and deliver US SoX testing.
• Review work of junior members and provide constructive feedback.
• Identify business opportunities and manage client relationships.

Skills

Accountancy Qualified (ACA, ACCA, MIIA)

SOX experience

Compliance awareness

Prioritization and planning

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Education

Accountancy qualification

Tools

Microsoft Visio

Power BI

Job description

Risk, Controls, SOX - Senior Manager

Location: Manchester or Leeds ideally (maybe Liverpool) (Hybrid WFH 2-3 days)

Our client, a leading global advisory firm and winner of many awards, has an outstanding culture and offers support, progression, and an emphasis on work/life balance (plus strong benefits).

The Role

To support senior members of the team including assisting with strategy, to drive marketing and business development. Your role will include delivery of US SoX testing, design and implementation of controls as well as ad-hoc advisory services.

Responsibilities

1. Lead projects professionally, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the service.
2. Scoping and delivering internal control projects including identifying and documenting process flows, risk and controls, identify deficiencies and remediate.
3. Lead on assurance testing of controls (testing the design, effectiveness and evaluation).
4. Review the work of managers and more junior members, providing constructive feedback to enable their development and technical ability.
5. In addition to internal controls and SOX capabilities, you will have a rounded business knowledge, able to analyse client data, make recommendations and talk credibly to clients on the issues they face.
6. Display judgement on when to escalate issues to management or involve other experts to support clients.
7. Ensure risk management and quality control procedures are adhered to.
8. Identify and recognise business and sales opportunities with new and existing clients.
9. Engage in networking and building internal and external relationships to identify new business and sales opportunities.
10. Scope new projects and construct accurate fee proposals and budgets for review.
11. Collaborating on the day-to-day management of the pipeline, ensuring all opportunities are recorded and proactively followed up.
12. Monitors delivery against a project plan and intervenes or escalates issues to management as necessary to ensure engagements stay within budgets.
13. Support the management team with the implementation and communication of any new business strategy for existing clients or target clients.

Skills / Qualifications

1. Accountancy Qualified: ACA, ACCA, MIIA or equivalent
2. SOX experience or experience with UK internal controls frameworks
3. Awareness of compliance, legislative and market issues relevant to client businesses
4. Ability to prioritise and plan effectively, adopting a logical and methodical approach in order to meet tight deadlines and balance client needs
5. Knowledge of Microsoft packages including Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Desirable

1. Experience in a practice within a manager capacity
2. Experience of risk management, internal audit and systems/controls testing
3. Strong working knowledge of UK reporting standards (including UK GAAP and UK-adopted IFRS) and related financial reporting requirements
4. Microsoft Visio experience (or a similar software)
5. Power BI experience