Senior Finance Governance Officer

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Canada Life Full time

12 Month Fixed-Term Contract Opportunity
Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies.

We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.


Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.


Job Purpose
To assist the Head of Finance Governance, Risk & Controls with the following activities and responsibilities:

  • Risk related activities are implemented & reported in accordance with the Canada Life Risk and Control framework.
  • UK Division compliance with Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICOFR) for both Canadian and UK reporting regimes.
  • Data Governance standards (including those relating to GDPR) are met through effective endtoend data controls with appropriate reporting to the relevant Boards and Committees.

Duties/Responsibilities

  • To play a key role in the required quarterly ICOFR CEO/CFO certification ahead of the annual control testing program.
  • Liaison with both Business and Support functions (Finance, Risk & Compliance, Operations, IT and Customer Service) teams to ensure that ICOFR documentation is kept up to date: Process Narrative Reports, Risk and Controls, EUC asset controls, SAP accounts scoping.
  • To assist with the CLL Data Governance framework activities and Data Register held in SharePoint

To include:

  • Working with the business teams in the maintenance of the individual Data Sets.
  • Manage and facilitate the attestation of each Data Set by the Data Register Owners and Data Owners.
  • Maintain the Issues and Remediation log working with the business to resolve issues.
  • Assist the Head of Finance Governance, Risk & Controls with the preparation of a Quarterly Data Quality Report for review and approval by the Financial Controller and Actuarial Function Holder.
  • To assist the Head of Finance Governance, Risk & Controls with General Data Protection Regulation compliance by the Finance Teams:
  • Review and maintenance of the functional Record of Processing Activity (RoPA) to ensure it is accurate, up to date and made easily retrievable for inspection and ongoing monitoring.
  • Review and maintenance of the Record Retention and Disposal Guide (RR&DG) to ensure that it is accurate, up to date and made easily retrievable for inspection and ongoing monitoring.
  • Management and deletion of data in accordance with the Record Retention and Disposal Guide.
  • To assist the Head of Finance Governance, Risk & Controlswith the Finance Teams CLUK policy attestation process

Activities to include:

  • Review of the evidence to support the team's implementation of policy requirements where applicable.
  • Review of the CLUK Data Governance Operating and Regulatory Reporting & Disclosure policy workbooks to ensure the implementation of these policies across CLUK.
  • Liaison with Risk team to ensure that the policy process requirements are kept up to date.
  • To assist the Head of Finance Governance, Risk & Controls with 1st LOD activities for Finance Teams including:
  • Completion of a RCSA for each specific Finance Team function
  • arranging meetings, compiling and reporting on recognised risks
  • Risk Event Reporting within GRC/MetricStream including monitoring remediation action plans through to completion.
  • GWL EUC Standard compliance across the Finance functions including: overseeing the use and management of EUC assets; ensuring that assessments are performed in accordance to the Standard and that, the CLUK EUC Inventory is kept current.
  • Develop and enhance current controls and processes and work with the business to implement best practices ensuring that procedures are kept up to date.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

  • Commercial awareness and understanding of the needs of the business.
  • Willing and capable of making decisions independently to progress issues, and able to exercise sound judgement and commercial sense to understand the importance of different issues and assess when matters need to be escalated.
  • Strong communication skills, demonstrating a clear and articulate standard of written and verbal communication in a complex environment, tailored for all levels of management.
  • Strong ability to adapt messages to the audience in a format that is easily understood by colleagues.
  • The ability to develop and maintain strong relationships across the finance function, acting with integrity and role modelling the company values at all times.
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