Senior Accounting Auditor

Senior Accounting Auditor
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Job Description:

• Key Responsibilities: Acquire a strong knowledge of the accounting control set up quality in the regions/entities placed under your scope.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Detailed responsibilities:
• Build a strong, trust, transparent and efficient
  - way communication, and partnership with the region/entities/process stakeholders under your coverage.

• Accounting Control Plan:
• Ensure that the Group Accounting Control Plan is properly rolled out and monitored in the regions/entities placed under your coverage
• Perform oversight review of control
  - ups in the regions/entities under your coverage. Estimate and measure the deficiencies identified in the accounting controls set up under your coverage and prepare associated reports to Senior Management and governance bodies.
• Ensure that Regional Finance teams comply with their control obligations, and that they have fully implemented the Group Accounting Control Plan and all procedures prescribed by the Infinity Platform.
• Perform LOD2 controls on Head Office central teams

• Accounting certification:
• To obtain and analyze certificates covering accounting stream from the different entities/regions under your scope.
• To have a good understanding of the production and control
  - up of the entities/regions under your scope.
• To have the ability to understanding and report in a concise and precise way the problems faced by entities/regions and the action plans to remediate.
• To contribute to the preparation of the related reports.

• Recommendations:
• Monitor recommendations issued by General Inspection / Internal Audit, Regulators and External Auditors in the regions.

• Operational Risk Incidents:
• Follow up operational risk incidents involving Finance and their impact on the control framework. Monitor remediation plans and timeline.

• Finance Internal Control Committees:
• Hold regular (at least quarterly) Internal Control Committee (FORCC) meetings with the regions/entities of the scope to review the accounting control issues.
• Contribute to the Accounting and Financial Risk Committee (AFRi
  C) for the allocated regions and transversal topics.
• Hold
  - hoc meetings with Regional Finance when needed.

• Other control plans:
• To ensure that any other Controls Plans are properly rolled out

Technical Skills:

• Experience in control or audit (preferably in the banking and/or financial sector).
• Strong accounting expertise.

Language Skills:

• English - Expert

Soft Skills:

• Organizational skills
• Critical thinking