Financial Control Governance Manager

Manager, Financial Control & Governance

Purpose

The Manager of Financial Control & Governance represents a key part of the Wealth Management Europe (WME) Financial Control (FC) Team and is responsible for ensuring the end-to-end financial control framework that supports the production of an IFRS Compliant Balance Sheet and Income Statement.

The role will be supporting the WME FC Team to uphold the highest standards in control and governance that underpin the control framework and to drive for continuous improvement of the control and governance environment.

Primary Responsibilities

• Contributing towards key controls processes across WME including SOX controls refresh, EUDA compliance, PAR process, NBC review and EIM Issues Management.
• Make contributions to continuous improvement of the Financial Controls process, constantly challenging the way things are done to save time and improve the control environment
• Ensure key control reconciliations, Standards of Documentation (SoD) packages and PEGA attestations are produced, reviewed and signed off in line with policy
• Participate in monthly general ledger attestation review.
• Contributing towards Internal and External audit deliverables.
• Update documentation of process and procedures maintained in Confluence as required.
• Ensure monitoring and resolution of all reconciliation breaks and review points by development and implementation of appropriate action plans with agreed timescales.
• Ad Hoc project work
• The marginal functions of this position have not been included and the responsibilities above are not the only duties to be performed. Will be required to perform any other job-related duties required by the Director, Financial Control.
• Authorities, Impact, Risk
• This position supports the key functions listed under primary responsibilities.
• Authority to manage, coach and mentor team, ensure consistency, accuracy and timeliness of deliverables.
• Providing senior management with information to influence or enable decision making to mitigate or remediate risks and/or issues.
• Authority to make recommendations within the respective governance frameworks and to own and drive initiatives to enhance the control environment of the CFO Europe Group.

Working Conditions

• Being close to our colleagues and the communities we serve is critically important to our culture and will remain so in the future. This will mean residing within a commutable distance to the office.
• Hybrid working with 4+ days in office.
• Fast pace/work under pressure along with multi-tasking.

Key Relationships

• Finance Senior Management team, including CFO
• Members of wider RBC Finance Team
• Finance colleagues at all levels of the organisation globally.
• Centres of Governance including CFO Op Risk, SOX Office.
• Internal and External Audit.

Education &/or Experience

• Accounting/Finance degree or equivalent.
• Professionally qualified accountant.
• Strong commercial acumen, knowledge and understanding of the key outputs and associated controls of the finance function, finance processes and Financial Services/banking processes.
• Solid understanding of the control framework
• SOX audit knowledge
• Strong IT skills, and in particular advanced Excel is essential
• Able to converse with people at every level of an organisation.

Competencies

Behavioural

• Good Communicator
• Proactive
• Driven
• Flexible
• Enthusiastic
• Committed
• Team Player

Technical

• Qualified ACCA/ACA/CIMA with undergraduate degree in quantitative field and suitable financial services work experience.
• Understanding of the Balance Sheet and areas of risk.
• Strong communication skills both written and vebal and ability to tailor for audiences.
• Data literacy, finance architecture and systems, MS Office.