Group Risk and Internal Audit Manager

High growth Global energy business with revenues over £200 million require a Group Risk and Internal Audit Manager to join their HQ based in Nottingham. The business have had a hugely successful recent history and require a recently qualified Accountant(ACA/ACCA) from a practice background who has had exposure to the Energy industry.
The Role
- Monitor the Group’s risk register, ensuring risks (and opportunities) are appropriately documented and controlled
- Define and review commodity position and risk analysis reports: to ensure commodity trading is in line with approved risk mandates
- Review and make recommendations to amend the Group’s trading risk and general risk mandate
- Assess risks, and opportunities to amend risk frameworks, related to the Group’s operations, including customer and trading credit risk
- Chair the Risk & Internal Control forum
- Provide oversight to the Group’s internal control framework, testing for weaknesses and ensuring improvements are progressed with the relevant stakeholder
- Performance of internal audits across the Group, including assessments of financial and non-financial policy compliance and assessing areas for improvement
- Monitor regulatory compliance, utilising internal and external compliance resources
- Identify and then implement new initiatives to drive better risk management across the organisation
- Manage Group insurance positions
- Partner with the senior leadership to identify areas of risk and input into agreement of suitable risk policies, and input on key business projects or new product offerings
- Contribute to a continuous improvement culture driving market leading performance
- Make consistently good internal control & risk decisions despite challenging deadlines

The Person
- Qualified ACA/ACCA Accountant
- Energy - Industry knowledge, including forward commodity trading activities, value at risk techniques, and clear understanding of commodity trading risks
- Knowledge - a view of risk management techniques in a commodity trading business, and capable of reviewing appropriate controls and their operation
- Analytical - naturally curious & understanding of risk simulation models, immaculate attention to detail, whilst finding solutions to problems