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Financial Controls (FC) Design Advisor will be part of a global Centre of Expertise providing advisory and deep professional support on Financial Controls Design & Deploy.
This global position will give the successful candidate opportunity to collaborate with Process Owners & Architects, Process and Business stakeholders who own fit-for-purpose, risk-value driven financial control framework. Working on the assigned projects, this position will contribute to ensuring that Shell maintains an effective financial control framework, including technical & digital elements of controls.
It will also provide the opportunity for visibility across end-to-end processes, and the prospect to drive forward and influence changes of global control framework.
This position will primarily focus on, but will not be limited to, projects related to end-to-end risk & control framework in the Reporting & Analysis workstream.
Principle Accountabilities
Working with the relevant Process Owner organization and various business stakeholders, the Financial Controls Design Advisor will support risk appetite conversations & deliver assigned projects related to control framework design changes driven e.g. by Finance Digital Strategy, process, business or system changes / upgrades, digital transformation, remediations, migrations etc.
The successful candidate will build a specialist end-to-end process and business knowledge across the assigned workstream to effectively business partner with Process & Business stakeholders in transformation of control framework in their respective area.
Financial Controls Design Advisor will apply high quality standards of Control Design Change Management Process, risk-based mindset and end-to-end perspective to ensure that design effective Financial Control Framework is maintained, and controls are fit-for-purpose in line with the Future of Controls vision.
Design & deploy of financial controls will involve good understanding of IT technical aspects of Application Embedded Controls and interdependencies with IT Controls Framework, including conducting Technical Validation for simple & medium complex projects.
This role will also require continuous learning of emerging digital technologies used by the Process / Business and will understand and apply principles of the Future of Controls vision, contribute to FOC roadmap with timely identification of potential opportunities for application of FoC technologies.
Financial Control Design Advisor will deliver Finance Operations assurance activities related to the annual SOX lifecycle, including among others Risk & Controls Identification, SOX sign-offs, Process (LoD1) and Shell Internal Audit & External Audit (LoD3) queries, deficiency evaluations and ensuring high data quality in MetricStream.
Disciplined project delivery – ensuring timely delivery of key project outcomes within budget & deadlines, and for ad hoc initiatives such as query resolution resulting from controls testing and internal / external audits – within applicable audit timelines.
End-to-end risk management - ability to articulate , assess and address risks in the end-to-end transaction flow, and support risk appetite discussions with Process/Business stakeholders.
Digital Risk Management – ability to continuously learn new digital technologies emerging across assigned process / business areas and provide digital risk assurance / advisory to the key stakeholders.
Required Experience:
A minimum of 5 years related work experience below will be required for this opportunity.
Finance professional with previous experience within the Accountancy / Audit Profession, Risk & Assurance, Internal Audit or someone who has built a broad process knowledge in IT risk, systems and digital tools would be a plus.
Successful candidate would be expected to demonstrate strong stakeholder engagement, effective communication and influencing skills, a track record of managing change projects, delivering value add and learning new technologie
Successful candidate would be expected to demonstrate strong stakeholder engagement, effective communication and influencing skills, a track record of managing change projects, delivering value add and learning new technologies
The successful candidate will be a Chartered Accountant / Auditor or studying towards their professional exams (e.g. CIMA / ACCA / Certified Internal Auditor / Certified Information Systems Auditor or equivalent)
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