Financial Controls Manager - Farmington, United States - Beazley

Beazley

Verified Company

Farmington, United States

1 week ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

General:

Exciting opportunity to join Beazley's Finance Operations division. We are looking for a Financial Controls Manager for an 8month maternity leave cover role._

Who We Are

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years' experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world.

Our mission is to provide beautifully designed insurance, innovating to give our clients the maximum benefit with minimum hassle.

Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

Our Culture
We employ over 1,500 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences and backgrounds.

We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work in an adult environment that's big on collaboration, diversity of thought & personal accountability.

Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people & customers - 1) Be bold 2) Strive for better 3) Do the right thing.

Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organisation in touch with the changing world around us - our ambitious L&D & Sustainability targets are testament to this.

We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as iLearn (our own learning & development platform), LinkedIn Learning, our mentorship program and external qualification sponsorship.

As a Beazley employee, you also get access to our fantastic array of benefits which include commuting reimbursement, free in-office lunch, six months parental leave and a lifestyle allowance, amongst many others.

Job Title:
Financial Controls Manager

Division:
Finance Operations

Reports To:
As per Beazley's organisation chart

Key Relationships:
Internal: Finance Leadership Team (FLT), Finance leads and teams, various 1st line departments, Internal Audit, Risk Management, Compliance and IT platforms

External:
3rd party service providers, Auditors

Job Summary:

This role will support the Head of Financial Controls by being the primary point of contact for US activities (namely MAR requirements) which have a bearing on financial processes and control.

This role will also support the development of our internal controls over financial reporting (ICOFR) framework as well as contribute to strategic execution of the group's UK version of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Model Audit Rule (MAR) as required.

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Key Responsibilities

Support the Head of Financial Controls in the development and maintenance of Beazley's global and MAR financial control frameworks
Promote and communicate the expectations of the financial control framework to key stakeholders with a focus on change initiatives
Support the progress against the annual financial controls team plan in particular with a view to change initiatives.
Engage with key stakeholders, including the global finance team and other in scope departments, compliance, risk management, internal audit and third party auditors
Support the preparation of regular reporting to stakeholders including the group finance leadership team, risk and regulatory committee and relevant audit and risk committees

Strategic responsibilities:

Promote knowledge sharing across Beazley with a focus on the US by leading training sessions and focus sessions to demonstrate compliance requirements and share hot topics in SOX compliance
Support development and transition of the evolving finance organisation structure with a financial controls lens

Assurance and other responsibilities:

Engage with business sponsors to identify and monitor US initiatives to identify those with a financial control impact. This includes understanding the various US initiatives and sharing updates with the wider financial controls team.
Monitor US activities, ensuring that internal control requirements are satisfactorily addressed, designed and documented.
Participate on projects / initiatives as appropriate, providing advice and guidance in respect of new or reengineered processes, ensuring shared awareness of new system implementations, control change implications, and testing results.
Act as control champion across the Group to ensure that Control Framework requirements are delivered to relevant parties.

Decision-making responsibilities:

Work within the guidelines agreed by the Head of Financial Control

General
At Beazley we are committed to doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do.

It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley's core values and behaviours.