Vice President - Risk & Control - BFSI

Role Purpose

- Conduct assurance reviews.

- Ensure that all key risks within their activities and operations are identified, mitigated, and monitored by an appropriate control environment that is commensurate with risk appetite.

- Oversee remediation for controls assessed as - ineffective- or - needs improvement-, and challenge procedures covering areas under review.

- Assess adequacy of remediation of issues, including audit findings, internal control issues, and regulatory observations

Global Service Delivery is a business-aligned, customer-servicing organization with the primary objective of driving operational excellence across our businesses worldwide. Achieving this through the consolidation, simplification and continuous improvement of processes across the full range of operations, the division simultaneously takes responsibility for managing operational, location and processing risk and ensuring that services provided are at a best-in-class price point for the required quality level.

Principal Accountabilities: Key activities and decision making areas

Impact on the Business / Function

- Ensure practical and robust Finance standards are rolled out in the region

- Ensure Internal Control within the Finance function in the sites are strengthen

- Through site visits, check to ensure that sites maintain the internal control standards

- Through site visits, ensure accurate and reliable information financial information is produced by the sites for internal and external reporting

- Good knowledge of accounting standards and GRCA requirements, particularly changed and new ones

- Good understanding on regulations and reporting requirements and the system processes in producing returns

- Reconciliation of financial data

- Take initiative to resolve potential issues and alert line manager early

Customers / Stakeholders

- Periodic site reviews to help to strengthen internal controls whereby Op Risk is minimized and reducing the likelihood of regulatory penalties and adverse audit comments

- Key Liaison point for Operational Risk Indicators for the Finance team

- Main point of contact for Internal Audit for Finance

- Effective communication with site finance teams to maintain open relationship and understanding their needs

- Prompt and accurate analysis provided to sites to assist decision making and planning

Leadership & Teamwork

- Work closely with all departments under Finance management

- Keep abreast with work done by departments in order to share best practices and developments with sites

- Confidently liaise with site CFOs, Internal Audit and Senior Management

- Work effectively with members of the site visit team

- Attend cross functional seminars, meetings and conferences to maintain up to date knowledge of initiatives within the various regional finance teams

- Confident team player and able to get along with people

Operational Effectiveness & Control

- Share best practices with sites in line with Finance Gold procedures

- Periodic site visits to review control framework

- Highlighting areas of concern to relevant FIN policy and SOX team where deficiencies are discovered

- Recommend ways to reduce deficiencies noted above

- Visits should ensure that there are no - surprises- when sites are reviewed by external auditors or regulators

- Visit recommendations should assist sites to reduce any new and repeat audit comments

- Implement Finance Gold procedures for generic processes across sites

Major Challenges

- Working in different regions where each site is unique and governed by their existing local regulations. Incumbent must be aware of the regulatory issues within each site where a review is being undertaken

- Having to deal with Country CFOs and Senior Management proactively and confidently

- Keeping abreast of all Finance issues (Policy, Reporting, Systems etc) in order to add value to the site visits

Role Context

- The job holder is expected to work with sites where the level of staff expertise, systems used, external environment would be different across the region and sometimes even within a country (e.g. having a branch and a strategic subsidiary investment in a country)

- The job holder would be expected to work independently within their own area of expertise but at the same time working towards achieving team targets