Internal Controls Lead

2 months ago


Bury, United Kingdom JD Sports Full time

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across several retail fascias in over 30 markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

**Title:
Internal Controls Lead

**Reports to:
Head of Internal Controls

**Location:
Bury, Lancashire (Head Office)

**Salary**:
Competitive

**Main purpose of role**:
To partner with the business, finance, IT and Multichannel teams across the Group to enhance the quality of the controls environment.

**Responsibilities**:
Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Support the controls managers in partnering with the business and Group IT and Multichannel teams to identify improvements in controls and ensure control deficiencies are tracked and remediated in agreed timelines.
- Lead the controls stream on Business and IT led projects.
- Support the end-to-end internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) programme.
- Lead the tracking and reporting of ICFR control deficiencies.
- Document key financial processes end-to-end, identifying risks and controls and creating a suitable matrix.
- Support the rollout of the internal controls framework to new acquisitions in the Group

**Qualifications & Experience**
- Accounting qualification - ACA/ACCA or equivalent
- Audit experience, preferably controls-testing focus - minimum of 7 years/
- Exposure to and an effective understanding of internal controls over financial reporting and controls testing.
- Be a strong communicator and possess an ability to develop trusting and credible relationships at all levels of the business and across various teams
- Strong Excel skills
- An understanding of IT systems and operation will be helpful

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

- Free parking
- Incremental Holiday Allowance
- Staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation
- Pension Scheme
- Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.

Thank you again for your time.


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