Purpose
& Overall Relevance for the Organization:
Position is integral to the on-going focus on Global Business Service (GBS) Governance in line with the Corporate Governance. It aims at:
Enhancing Internal Controls situation at GBS Porto.
Assess the compliance of GBS processes with established Group Internal Control frameworks and Group best practices and established policies.
Perform risk analysis and mitigation analysis to GBS processes and recommend new or redesigned controls ensuring effectiveness and efficiency of operations, reliability of reporting and compliance with applicable external laws and internal regulations.
Work with management to identify opportunities for improvement, measure and analyses current business processes and redesign processes to meet the needs of a complex and growing business.
Key Responsibilities:
Perform independent assessments to existing GBS internal controls ensuring their effectiveness.
Report deficiencies and propose respective action plans and perform necessary diligences to ensure control implementation and/or control effectiveness.
Recurrent assessment of Internal Control System (ICS) under GBS responsibility identifying misalignments and control environment opportunities.
Support operational GBS Porto managers or other in charge to ensure that GBS Porto desktop procedures are updated according with ICS and Global Policies requirements.
Create from the scratch related desktop procedures inherent to assigned recurrent tasks.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and GBS center director.
Capacity to handle with all requests received from external Group auditors as well GBS auditors.
Strong analytical and numerical skills
Ability to work with strict deadlines
Strong auditing/internal control skills
Qualifications:
Accounting/auditing qualification preferred
Minimum of 3 years in similar function/position
Knowledge of ERP system such as SAP
Fluency in English is a must
3 years of work experience in Finance (special focus on reporting, auditing and /or controlling).