Senior Associate - IT Application Control

Senior Associate (Contractor), Band 12

Infrastructure & IT Controls Advisory, Financial Controls Team

ROLE PROFILE:

The Financial Controls team is charged with the design and build of a robust financial controls framework for LSEG. This includes scoping, risk identification, design of controls, testing of those controls and serving as a 2LoD function for management. The team is part of the larger LSEG Finance organization and reports to the Group Controller. The team also plays a significant role in ensuring that LSEG is ready for anticipated changes following the UK Corporate Governance and Reforms (e.g. introduction of UK SOX).

LSEG is embarking on a multi-year Finance Transformation journey. We are delivering our Finance Vision by transforming the way we work to build value and deliver balanced growth for the business. The ERPM Program (one aspect of Finance Transformation) will drive efficiency and improve benefits on Billing, Accounting, Finance Operations and Reporting for LSEG by replacing two ERPs with one integrated Oracle Cloud Platform.

The successful candidate will be part of the Controls Workstream of the ERPM Program and will be primarily responsible for assisting with designing new controls to ensure data integrity and documenting automated controls for the new ERPM system as we transform our finance ecosystem across LSEG.

You will also assist with detailed process & controls walkthroughs, assess design of control; monitor implementation of changes; produce control-related documentation; coordinate the evaluation and remediation of control issues; assist the business on control optimization and rationalization.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Review functional specifications, technical specifications, System Architecture and any other relevant materials to understand the end to end integrations and design the controls

- Design and document new controls for end-to-end data integrity to ensure completeness and accuracy of data transferred between ERPM and relevant upstream or downstream applications

- Document IT automated controls (ITACs) detailing how the controls operate from system to system via middleware tools capturing the configuration details.

- Assurance testing and documentation to cover positive and negative scenarios.

- Ensure that any changes are documented, implemented, and monitored.

- Assess the impact of new integrations on the existing controls and document the changes.

- Communicate design effectiveness, control changes, deficiencies/gaps, and remediation to appropriate levels of management and track remediation to resolution.

- Review test scripts, provide inputs for relevant test scenarios, functionalities to be used during SIT and UAT

- Document ITACs within new ERPM capturing the configuration details

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Experience level: 5+ years

Skills:

Required:

- IT audit experience within SOX Compliance/ Risk functions or Internal Controls Advisory or Assurance services/ TOD: Test of Design, TOE: Test of Effectiveness.

- Familiarity with IT Applications and its infrastructure including Oracle Fusion, SAP Accounting and Billing applications, SalesForce.com, Snowflake, Integration tools (e.g BOOMI, Oracle Integration Cloud, Informatica, Matillion)

- IT Application controls (ITACs) including automated interfaces, configurations, reconciliations, calculations, validations, authorizations, SOD, access restrictions.

- Understanding of SQL and other Scripting Languages & comfortability reviewing the code.

- Ability to adapt to change and multi-task in a dynamic environment.

- Ability to understand complex issues outside their experience and expertise and facilitate resolution across multiple functions/managing across boundaries is essential

- Demonstrate ability to take initiative and drive projects to completion.

- Capable of working independently with little guidance.

- Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact with peers and management globally.

- Strong command of Office applications

Preferred

- CISA Certification

- Experience in similar ERPM implementation