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EMEA Risk & Controls Director - Exclusive Retained Role

Recruiter
Hanami International
Location
London, UK
Salary
£85 -100,000 plus bonus
Closing date
23 Sep 2021
Reference
BZA

Job Details

Our client is an award-winning division of a FTSE 100 marketing, public relations (PR), communications and advertising agency, which is known as the market leader in its field. We have been retained to build the team and our next assignment is to find a Risk and Controls Director for their EMEA region, based in central London.
  
Risk & Controls Director, EMEA

This role leads the EMEA regional Risk and Controls team and reports to the Global Risk & Controls Director, with a dotted line to the Global Deputy Global Risks and Controls Director. In order to achieve the objectives of this role, the successful candidate will:
  

  • partner with the various senior leaders to drive change and establish processes and controls under the Group controls framework to comply with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and various accounting and control policies;
  • advise the company and Group EMEA CFO’s and CEO’s in the area of internal controls and compliance;
  • provide process improvement solutions, balancing the business requirements and the control framework requirements;
  • be actively involved with and understand the business. Although this is not an (internal) audit position, this person will work closely with the auditors;
  • support the culture of control compliance and continuous controls improvement;
  • provide training and development at the regional and operating company level.


We are looking for an engaging and effective leader, who will inspire people both in the department and beyond it... Someone who is able to effectively communicate diplomatically and skilfully with levels of the organization by being both detail-oriented and thinking strategically, with a team-first mindset. The ideal candidate will be/have:
  

  • significant experience of accounting and/or internal audit/external audit, most likely in a public accounting firm (Big 4 or Top 10), with some industry experience ideally. Media experience is an advantage;
  • a relevant qualification e.g. CPA, ACCA, ACA, CIA etc. preferred;
  • experience with IFRS, GAAP, GAAS, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, SEC, PCAOB, etc.;
  • risk & control experience.

  
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Company

International recruitment specialists in Audit & Finance. Hanami International is an Audit & Finance recruitment specialist, operating worldwide across multiple sectors within global businesses and consulting firms. In partnership with Recruitment Entrepreneur, James Caan’s growth capital firm, providing us with the platform to grow in an area that is increasingly specialist and ever-changing.

We base our business on our core values of honesty, transparency and the passionate belief that delivering an outstanding and straight-forward service will achieve the best outcome. Commercially, we provide a full range of recruitment solutions including single and multi-vacancy, contingent or retained campaigns.
 
Key to this is providing a rewarding service that has real substance.
 
Why Hanami?

We operate cross-border and without geographical limitations – we have placed as far west as San Francisco and Santiago, and as far east as Tokyo and Brisbane. Our agility and cultural adaptability allows us to deliver consistently through any major global centre.

Our mission?

To be the most trusted and informed recruitment advisors – with our values of honesty, transparency, respect, humility, and self-improvement. These guide us through every step of our service to candidates and clients. The result we aim for is a rewarding experience that provides genuine value.

Our experience, knowledge and market information is of course available free of charge to anybody in our network. Please contact us with absolutely any queries such as country-specific remuneration, employment law, visa and relocation information or general candidate and market knowledge from within the audit & finance world.

Contact us anytime on +44 (0) 207 048 7880.


Hanami International Ltd are committed to protecting your Data. By submitting your information, you confirm that you have read and understood our Privacy Notice which outlines how we use information we collect about you. (Our Privacy Notice can be found at www.hanamiinternational.com/privacy-notice). Feel free to visit this for more information about how we collect and process personal data.

Company info
Telephone
+44 (0) 207 048 7880
Location
Thomas House
84 Eccleston Square
London
SW1V 1PX
United Kingdom

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