Job Title:  Manager | Financial Services | Gurgaon | Finance Transformation

Role Purpose:

The role is part of the Finance NFR team within Global Finance supporting Sustainability related disclosure reporting processes. The incumbent  would be primarily responsible to facilitate Embedding Risk management capability and driving sustainable control environment for various processes supporting (ESG) disclosure processes.

The role will be based out of a Gurgaon location and will support the Finance NFR activities.

Location: Gurgaon & Delhi NCR

Key Activities:

Execution of Risk and Control Assessments (RCAs)

1. Facilitate RCA creation for in scope processes
2. Facilitate RCA refresh and update (annual/based on trigger events)
3. Review of RCAs including ensuring global RCA consistency from a scoping, risk assessment and controls perspective
4. Support the scoping of RCAs
5. Support to ensure that there is a RCA and associate control owner continuous monitoring plans maintained for all key processes and controls across Finance

Issues, actions and incident management

1. Qualitative review of issues and actions recorded by control owners and incidents recorded by event owners
2. Review impact of recorded issues and incidents on the control environment
3. Advise on issue remediation planning and tracking by issue owners
4. Provide guidance on remediation to control, issue and incident owners
5. Reporting issues and actions status to appropriate governance forums

Facilitation of risk and control governance meetings

1. Manage secretarial activities relating to risk and control governance meetings (e.g. scheduling, attendance tracking, terms of reference maintenance, etc.)
2. Support the meeting chairperson with execution of the meeting (e.g. agenda, areas of focus)
3. Preparation for governance meetings through review of relevant management information (e.g. follow up on emerging and outstanding issues)
4. Provision of updates on key matters and other subject matter expertise into governance meetings

Training facilitation on risk and control topics

1. Facilitate development course material for training related to risk or control topics
2. Support delivering and facilitating training (relating to the team)
3. Facilitate reviewing and updating of training/course material

Liaison and co-ordination with internal and external stakeholders

1. Work with external auditors at global and regional levels
2. Meet regularly with relevant Internal Audit / external audit leads to understand audit plan and emerging issues to support senior management's planning and response
3. Support other areas of Finance with engagement with relevant external stakeholders (e.g. regulators) and internal stakeholders in the Global Businesses and Global Functions

Support and advice to Risk and Control Owners

1. Support Risk Owners with understanding their risk profile, related controls and related issues
2. Advise Control Owners on control identification, design, documentation and continuous monitoring

Customers / Stakeholders

• Maintain key stakeholder relationships to enhance awareness of operational risk including its identification, assessment, mitigation and control.
• To support and ensure that local management fully considers and effectively manages operational risk in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Leadership & Teamwork

• Actively engage in establishing a strong control environment at GFOC
• Be a good team player 
• Self-driven and motivated
• Ability to deal with senior management

Knowledge Required :

• Knowledge of finance functions such as accounting, reconciliation and reporting in the financial services sector is a must
• Understanding of SOX, operational risk and COSO frameworks would be required
• Knowledge of sustainability related standards (ISSB standards) would be required

Skills Required :

• Good business writing skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Should have eye for detail and problem solving and influencing skills

• Ability to challenge information presented, providing reasoned explanation to ensure that agreement is reached by both parties
• Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with team members/wider business including senior executive management and ability to develop a good rapport in challenging situations

• Able to cope with pressure and tight deadlines
• Assertive, with a positive attitude and an open mind

Qualifications and Experience

• Education: CA or MBA finance
• 9 to 14 years of relevant post qualification experience in the risk and controls domain with a leading accounting firm / financial services industry.
• Strong risk and control experience. Experience in performing risk and control assessments, assurance reviews and managing SOX framework is a key requirement