Finance Compliance Manager
Camelot Group, United Kingdom
Job Description
Millions of people play our games every single week, with annual sales in excess of 7billion. That's a lot of transactions for our finance team to account for, ensuring that every winner is paid and that our Good Causes are supported. As Finance Compliance Manager, you will work with the leadership team in Finance and other departments to ensure that we have a forward looking compliance plan, providing assurance to the business of the effectiveness of our financial controls and processes as well as understanding and mitigating risks.
A Place To Be You
We want to create games that appeal to people from all walks of life and we need a rich and diverse blend of people to make that happen. We hire exclusively on talent and we want our employees to feel like they can bring their whole self to work every day.
We have continued recruiting throughout COVID-19 and have been successfully conducting interviews and onboarding new starters virtually since March. This has meant that we have been able to keep our people as safe as possible.
How you'll make a difference
- Lead the first line compliance activities for Finance coordinating the outputs that are required as part of the agreed reporting framework.
- Act as an influencer to enhance and embed the culture of compliance across the first line teams within the Finance function
- Work closely with each of the teams within finance to understand the risks within their team and ensure these gross risks have been sufficiently mitigated and in the event that the identified risk materialises
- Work closely with the second line Compliance, Risk and Internal Audit Team, actively contributing to the efficacy of Camelot’s risk registers and Internal Audits risk universe.
- Be an individual contributor performing compliance and risk management activities, ie delivering key pieces of work across the function (as well coordinating outputs from across the finance function).
- Develop a strong working understanding of Camelot’s finance and security operations policies, procedures and processes.
- Develop and then maintain a suite of first line compliance/control documents that provide assurance and oversight of the high risk activities across the finance function.
- Prepare reports and MI related to compliance activities within the finance function that provide assurance to senior management, management committees and for boardlevel committees including the Compliance Risk Committee, Operations Board and Audit Risk amp; Security Committee.
- Ensuring the performance and delivery of Camelot’s Self-Assessment Programme, across the finance function. Monitoring progress, coverage and assessing whether the programme needs updating to reflect current risk/process.
- Develop and apply sound risk assessment principles and methods taking into account business diversity
- Regularly evaluating the efficiency of controls, procedures and policies in place and work with the control owners across the function to improve them
- Ensuring Compliance activities are supported by adequate documentation, peer reviews and quality checks.
What you'll bring to the table
- Either Accounting and/or Audit and Compliance qualifications and experience (which may encompass business administration, audit, finance, Corporate Governance, Risk Management, IT, BCP / DRP, QA, security and project management)
- Have a strong controls and compliance background and ideally demonstrable experience of developing and implementing compliance/control frameworks
- Ability to write reports to communicate findings and propose solutions
- Proven track record of building senior internal and external relationships.
- Proven experience as a Senior Compliance Manager
- Bright, highly analytical and intellectually agile, able to learn and manage complexity quickly.
- High level of integrity and independence whilst also able to successfully partner with the business in meaningful ways through building trusting relationships and connections.
- A strong collaborator, influencer, listener, to build consensus and a constructive working relationship across the organisation.
- Excellent communication skills and executive presence, and ability to influence a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong commercial acumen and strategic mind-set.
- Strong experience in business operations, along with regulatory exposure.
What we’ll give you
We look after our people. There’s a competitive bonus and benefits scheme, 26 days of annual leave and a rather generous pension scheme. Thinking about your health? No probs - we’ll give you full private medical cover, access to dental schemes, eye care rebates, your annual flu shot, 50% off your annual gym membership, we’ll even