Senior Accounting Auditor

HR Business Partner & Talent Manager – Alter Solutions Portugal

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Acquire a strong knowledge of the accounting control set up quality in the regions/entities placed under your scope.
• Build a strong, trust, transparent and efficient two-way communication, and partnership with the region/entities/process stakeholders under your coverage.
• Ensure that the Group Accounting Control Plan is properly rolled out and monitored in the regions/entities placed under your coverage.
• Perform oversight review of control set-ups in the regions/entities under your coverage. Estimate and measure the deficiencies identified in the accounting controls set up under your coverage and prepare associated reports to Senior Management and governance bodies.
• Ensure that Regional Finance teams comply with their control obligations, and that they have fully implemented the Group Accounting Control Plan and all procedures prescribed by the Infinity Platform.
• Obtain and analyse certificates covering accounting stream from the different entities/regions under your scope.
• Have a good understanding of the production and control set-up of the entities/regions under your scope.
• Understand and report in a concise and precise way the problems faced by entities/regions and the action plans to remediate.
• Contribute to the preparation of the related reports.
• Monitor recommendations issued by General Inspection / Internal Audit, Regulators and External Auditors in the regions.
• Follow up operational risk incidents involving Finance and their impact on the control framework. Monitor remediation plans and timeline.
• Hold regular (at least quarterly) Internal Control Committee meetings with the regions/entities of the scope to review the accounting control issues.
• Contribute to the Accounting and Financial Risk Committee (AFRiC) for the allocated regions and transversal topics.
• Hold ad-hoc meetings with Regional Finance when needed.
• Ensure that any other Controls Plans are properly rolled out.

Technical Skills

• The ideal candidate is not an accountant per se, but rather someone coming from an Audit firm (big4 or similar) with background in Financial Services and knowledgeable of IFRS norms.
• Experience in control or audit (preferably in the banking and/or financial sector).
• Strong accounting expertise.

Soft Skills

• Organizational skills
• Critical thinking

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Consulting

Industries

Investment Banking

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