Head of Risk, Control & Continuous Improvement

A newly built Global Shared Service Function with a focus on finance and operations is looking to hire a Head of Risk, Control & Continuous Improvement to lead a small team and provide support to the Board of Director in the plannng and execution of a number of projects across governance, risk and control.

A newly built Global Shared Service Function with a focus on finance and operations is looking to hire a Head of Risk, Control & Continuous Improvement to lead a small team and provide support to the Board of Director in the planning and execution of a number of projects across governance, risk and control.

Key responsibilities include:

• Executing and maintaining a sustainable and scalable programme of process enhancements, controls improvements and waste elimination initiatives

• Implementing automation technology to drive efficiency and effectiveness

• Delivering service improvement across UK operations through performance improvement initiatives

• Delivering best practice performance improvement solutions

• Tracking delivery and performance of projects and managing corrective action where necessary

• Alignment of pipeline and workload to ensure consistency with the priorities of the Head of Finance Services, the Delivery Pillar Leads, the governance model and the UK business.

• The delivery of an incrementally improving control environment, with accompanying appropriate MI

• Delivery of cross-tower risk-focused processes and reporting

• Training, cross-training and re-enforcing best practise risk mitigation and control management approaches across the UK business

• A pipeline of innovation – new ideas for trialling and piloting control solutions

• Alignment of pipeline and workload to ensure consistency with the priorities of the Head of Finance Services, and divisional teams

The ideal candidate will have worked within a Group / multi-divisional structured business and/or within a Shared Service environment.

A core background in risk, control, governance with a leaning towards the creation and execution of improvement projects will be advantageous.