Risk, Controls, SOX - Senior Manager

Brimstone Consulting; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialized consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Manager to lead internal control projects. The role involves managing SOX testing, delivering advisory services, and ensuring quality control. Candidates should be accountancy qualified with experience in UK internal controls. The position allows for hybrid working from Manchester or Leeds. Competitive compensation and growth opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in a practice within a manager capacity.
• Experience of risk management and internal audit.
• Strong working knowledge of UK reporting standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects professionally, keeping clients informed.
• Scope and deliver internal control projects.
• Review the work of managers and provide feedback.
• Analyze client data and recommend solutions.
• Monitor delivery against a project plan.

Skills

SOX experience

Accountancy Qualified: ACA, ACCA, MIIA or equivalent

Knowledge of Microsoft packages

Ability to prioritise and plan

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Visio

Power BI

Job description

Overview

Risk, Controls, SOX - Senior Manager

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

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

• Lead projects professionally, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the service.
• Scoping and delivering internal control projects including identifying and documenting process flows, risk and controls, identifying deficiencies and remediating.
• Lead on assurance testing of controls (testing the design, effectiveness and evaluation).
• Review the work of managers and more junior members, providing constructive feedback to enable their development and technical ability.
• Analyze client data, make recommendations and talk credibly to clients on the issues they face, with a good working knowledge of IFRS and FRS 102 accounting standards.
• Display judgement on when to escalate issues to management or involve other experts to support clients.
• Ensure risk management and quality control procedures are adhered to.
• Identify and recognise business and sales opportunities with new and existing clients.
• Engage in networking and building internal and external relationships to identify new business and sales opportunities.
• Scope new projects and construct accurate fee proposals and budgets for review.
• Collaborate on the day-to-day management of the pipeline, ensuring all opportunities are recorded and proactively followed up.
• Monitor delivery against a project plan and intervene or escalate issues to management as necessary to ensure engagements stay within budgets.
• Support the management team with the implementation and communication of any new business strategy for existing clients or target clients.

Skills / Qualifications

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

Desirable

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

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About Brimstone Consulting

We specialise in finding highly qualified staff in the following areas:

Forensic Accounting & Fraud - (AML/CTF, Investigation, CFE’s etc.); Legal and LegalTech (E-Discovery, Digital Forensics, EDRM); Big Data and Data Analytics- (MI/BI/CI);InfoSec and Cyber Crime; Audit; Accountancy and Finance; FinTech (Payments etc.);Risk - (Credit, Regulatory, Liquidity, Market, Analysts-SAS, SPSS etc.);Compliance/Corporate Governance ;IT- (full SDLC- BA’s PM’s , Architects, Developers etc.);

Brimstone Consulting acts as an employment agency (permanent) and as an employment business (temporary) - a free and confidential service to candidates. Brimstone Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. Due to time constraints we can only reply to applicants that match our clients’ specifications. We may store applications in our cloud storage facilities that may include dropbox.