Accounting Process Controls Manager - Hybrid
Job Description
The Internal Controls Team in Global Business Support (GBS) is responsible for monitoring effective financial control design and operation across GBS, leading initiatives to improve performance, efficiency and effectiveness of the GBS control activities, investigating controls issues as they arise and ensuring that the GBS drives compliance through the Informa business.
The Process Controls Manager reports to the GBS Head of Internal Control and is responsible for ensuring that the GBS Process Controls environment remains appropriate to Informa’s needs from both a regulatory and financial control perspective, whilst also ensuring that Business and GBS operations are able to function efficiently.
Global Processes which are within the scope of the Internal Control Team’s activities include Purchase to Pay, Order to Cash and Record to Report, Tax and Financial Accounting, HRSSO and Payroll.
The primary aim of the role is to develop and monitor the effectiveness of the internal control environment within the Global Business Services (GBS), and to lead the building of a fit for purpose financial and supporting IT control framework across the Informa Americas organization and shared service centers.
A key requirement of the role is to maintain effective working relationships and communications with internal stakeholders inside and outside of GBS and Global Technology, including the Global Process Owners, Americas Regional Delivery Lead and each Americas SSC leadership team, SAP and Oracle ERP Teams, Internal Control Administrators and Informa’s Internal Audit team and its External Auditor.
Outcomes will be maintenance and improvement of a GBS Control framework that safeguards Informa’s assets and manages financial risk enabling the external auditor to move to a controls-based audit.
Key responsibilities
The Process Controls Manager (Americas) is expected to assume the following key responsibilities plus any other reasonable duties as required:
Qualifications
Skills & Abilities
Knowledge and qualifications
Additional Information
Employee experience is very important to us at Informa. On top of joining a supportive, diverse and ambitious team that welcomes all types of candidates. We are also flexible with different working patterns and prioritizes promotions internally. Our benefits include:
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