Senior Accounting Auditor Lisboa

Overview

Senior Financial Auditor position based in Portugal with requirements to be
- based 3/5 days per week. The role focuses on evaluating and improving internal controls, accounting processes, and risk management across regions and entities within scope.

Responsibilities

• Build a strong, transparent, and efficient
  - way communication and partnership with regional and process stakeholders under your coverage.
• Control Plan Management: ensure that the internal Accounting Control Plan is properly implemented and monitored across the regions and entities within your scope.
• Perform oversight reviews of control
  - ups in the entities under your responsibility. Assess and quantify deficiencies identified in accounting controls and prepare corresponding reports for senior management and governance bodies.
• Ensure that regional finance teams comply with their control obligations and have fully implemented the defined control procedures and standards.
• Perform
  - line controls on central teams when required.
• Accounting Certification: obtain and analyse accounting certificates from the different entities and regions under your scope; maintain a clear understanding of the production and control frameworks of those entities and regions; accurately identify and report issues encountered by entities and regions, along with related remediation plans; contribute to the preparation of related summary and status reports.
• Recommendations: monitor recommendations issued by internal audit, regulators, and external auditors in the covered regions.
• Operational Risk Incidents: follow up on operational risk incidents impacting Finance and evaluate their implications on the control framework; monitor remediation actions and associated timelines.
• Internal Control Committees: organize regular (at least quarterly) internal control meetings with the regions and entities in scope to review accounting control matters; contribute to financial and accounting risk committee meetings for the assigned regions and transversal topics; schedule
  - hoc meetings with regional finance teams when necessary.
• Other Control Plans: ensure proper implementation and
  - up of any other relevant control plans across the assigned perimeter.

Required Qualifications

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• Ideal candidate profile: professional with audit or internal control experience in financial services, ideally from a consulting or audit firm, and with strong knowledge of IFRS norms.
• Proven experience in audit or control functions within financial institutions or similar environments.
• Solid accounting expertise and analytical skills.

Language Skills:

• English – Expert level

Soft Skills:

• Strong organizational and planning abilities
• Critical and analytical thinking

Must be physically in Portugal, and work at the office 3/5 days a week

Details

• Seniority level: Entry level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Accounting/Auditing and Finance
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting

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