Head of Sox

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This role is based in Guernsey and as such all normal working days must be carried out in Guernsey.

Join us as Head of SOX & Control Manager
- You’ll support the maintenance of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX 404) and Senior Accounting Officer (SAO) methodology and Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework (EWRMF)
- In this role, you’ll collaborate with our executive level stakeholders across all of the three lines of defence and experience excellent future career opportunities
- This is your chance to work across all personal and non-personal customer types and risk categories, in particular operational, conduct, regulatory compliance and financial crime

**What you’ll do**:
Day-to-day, you’ll be overseeing activities to meet the requirements of SOX 404 and SAO legislation and wider jurisdictional regulations to make sure all key controls are tested, while driving the delivery of the EWRMF to ensure the control environment is updated to reflect changing regulations.

Your top priorities will include:

- Ensuring the material risks of our business are considered within an end-to-end context, key controls are established and tested and our appetite is understood and monitored
- Leading the development of a cost-effective and automated controls environment that meets regulatory and policy expectations and brings risks within appetite
- Managing the relationship with specific SOX 404 and SAO teams by establishing and maintaining relationships up to senior management and executive levels
- Engaging with external auditors to review and support assessments and remediate findings
- Driving the continuous development of people and processes to help the risk and control teams to deliver practical and automated control solutions in support of our strategies

**The skills you’ll need**:
To be successful in this role, you’ll have a background as a controls professional that has led multi-jurisdictional teams of control specialists, the ability to influence at executive level and work with cross-functional business and risk stakeholders and great verbal and written presentation skills.

Alongside this, you’ll need a professional accounting, risk management or operational risk qualification and knowledge of how to work on your own initiative, with general project and stakeholder management experience to resolve complex process, people and technology issues.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

- An understanding of how to work in and lead a risk and controls function across multiple products, processes, operations, technology and change functions
- Experience of SOX and non-SOX testing activities and an understanding of SAO legislation and SOX 404
- Good analytical skills, knowledge of how to review and challenge both quantitative and qualitative matters and the ability to put in place and deliver strategic plans
- Great communication skills and the ability to clearly and succinctly articulate issues
- Knowledge of the internal audit environment and a track record of the effective interpretation and implementation of regulations and policies