Governance Controller: Operations

The primary purpose of this role is:

• Provide independent testing of processes, procedures and controls throughout the region.
• Provide detailed feedback to line management and agree corrective action plans with deadlines
• Collaborate with Governance Manager to ensure annual testing plan is aligned to the risk profile.
• Collaborate with Governance Controller Systems to maximise automated governance.

Minimum requirements: 

• Minimum BCom Honours
• CIA
• 2-3 years operational finance experience
• Previous governance & control experience an advantage

Key Outputs and Accountabilities

• Internal and External Audit:
• Prepare and review current internal controls (standard within organization)
• Review proposed documented processes and procedures to ensure that efficiencies and effectiveness within the operation are not negatively impacted
• Monitor that internal and external audit findings are closed out within agreed deadlines
• Provide independent testing
• Control Self-Assessment Tool:
• Collaborate with team and operations for proposed changes to CSAs
• Quarterly submission to Head Office
• Monitor that action plans and deadline dates are being delivered on by the operation
• Independent testing on CSAs (twice per annum)
• Regional Audit Committee Meeting:
• Partner with the regional FM for the preparation and running of the RAC meeting.
• Identify risks and opportunities and report to management
• Reporting:
• Provide agreed governance reporting to the regional and financial management
• Align governance and processes reporting across the region, highlighting best practice and recommend actions
• Highlight key governance, control and process deficiencies to the regional teams and agree timelines to close out.
• Other
• Stock counts: Attend, co-ordinate, approve results & process improvement
• LDPs: Testing, reporting, corrective actions & ensuring management responsibilities performed
• Continuous improvement in governance practices to streamline process
• Support to Governance Controller: Systems on identifying, building, testing and implementing system driven controls
• Partner with HQ to mitigate SODs
• Ensure compliance to corporate governance practices.
• Ad-Hoc process and governance evaluation.