Group Controls Manager

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About your team: 

You’ll be working centrally within our mission control room, aka Centrica’s group functions. From Finance and Data Science, to our Wellbeing and People teams - this is the engine of our energy system, where our various Centres of Excellence power up each of our brilliant businesses, ensuring they have all the support, technologies, and capabilities they need to get our customers to Net Zero by 2050.

Group Controls Manager

We have a great opportunity for a Controls manager to join the team and lead the development and operation of an effective and efficient internal control framework across the Group to include oversight of new business activities.

Supporting the transformation of the Group Controls function into a centre of excellence, driving best practice, enhancing testing capabilities and supporting the engagement with auditors and external advisors on control matters – It is an opportunity to really engage with business units, functional teams, and the finance leadership team to provide oversight and guidance on controls maturity

Location – Windsor with flexible home working

Salary – Competitive with bonus potential, car allowance, pension, healthcare + more

The Role

• Leading the creation of an effective internal control framework (financial and non-financial) that meets internal, regulatory and governance standards (primarily, but not exclusively, the FRC UK Corporate Code)
• Facilitating and driving management discussions, decisions and strategies on the internal control framework at management and leadership meetings
• Ensuring effective processes are in place to identify, manage, monitor and report on controls to which the organisation is or might be exposed, in line with the control policies.
• Supporting the sustained implementation and maintenance of the internal control framework, including supporting second line testing via an outsourced model.
• Raising awareness and articulating the benefits of an effective and efficient internal control framework within BUs and Functions.
• Collaborating with BU and Functional control resources and proactively sharing good practice across the Group.
• Providing independent challenge on BU and Function control data particularly, the validity of the identified process, process risk and control design effectiveness to mitigate that risk.
• Supporting control owners to ensure that existing and proposed controls and actions are appropriate and being enacted as planned including conducting gap analysis to identify weaknesses in the controls framework.
• Supporting risk owners to ensure that their controls are being monitored and that control data held in the Group GRC tool is being updated on a timely basis.
• Providing timely advice and support to individuals and groups, including advice on the application of the internal control framework where required, and disseminate top-down control communications, as well as providing a conduit for BU/Function-Group bottom-up communication.
• Ensuring control issues are escalated as appropriate in line with escalation criteria.
• Producing control information for consideration by the Board, Audit & Risk Committee and Executive through collation, aggregation, calibration, and analysis.

The Person

• Accounting qualification preferred by not essential
• Knowledge and experience in designing and implementing financial and non-financial control frameworks
• A proven collaborator with the ability to influence and co-create solutions
• A track record of supporting business leaders to optimal solutions to business problems
• Comfortable using data to drive insight and decision making
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills
• Comfortable and productive in ambiguity.  Pro-active, resilient, motivated and results oriented
• Proven experience delivering finance, risk and/or controls projects within a large complex matrixed organisation
• Experience delivering financial control assurance testing programmes or demonstrating progress in respect of control upgrades

Why should you apply?   
  
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https://www.morethanacareer.energy/centrica

If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.

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