Projects & Change Controls Transformation Senior Manager
Location – London/ Dublin Hybrid - 2 days per week (Dublin only) About Flutter consists of two commercial divisions (FanDuel and International) and our central Flutter Functions; COO, Finance & Legal. Here in Flutter Functions we work with colleagues across all our divisions and regions to deliver something we call the Flutter Edge. It’s our competitive advantage, our ‘secret sauce’ which plays a key part in our ongoing success and powers our brands and divisions, through Product, Tech, Expertise and Scale. In Flutter Finance we pride ourselves in providing global expertise to ensure Flutter is financially healthy. Utilising our Flutter Edge to turbo-charge our capabilities. What You’ll Do At Flutter, we are embarking on an ambitious global finance transformation programme over the next three years. This finance transformation programme includes an ICFR pillar, as we look to ensure we are well-controlled as a finance organisation, in a balanced manner. Senior Manager will be responsible for ensuring that the transformation is well controlled and delivered according to Flutter’s policies around change programmes. This requires that the relevant programme and change controls, both business and IT, are operated as and when required, providing a clear audit trail of how the transformational changes have been delivered in a well-controlled manner. The role also has a broader remit to ensure that other finance-impacting projects have appropriate change and programme controls in place, ensuring that all relevant finance stakeholders are engaged at the right time. The role report directly to the Head of IT Controls Transformation, The ICFR Pillar Includes The Delivery Of
- Transformation of the ICFR annual cycle
- Transformation of how ICFR are crafted, implemented and operated, across the global organisation
- ICFR support for the wider transformation being delivered through the finance transformation programme, which cover data, systems, people, organisation design, and global process owners.
- Project management and oversight for the implementation of deficiency remediation, for the purposes of SOX 404 (a) and (b) reporting.
- Lead the day to day oversight of project and change controls for transformation as well as taking ownership for the embedding change controls. Develop balanced processes that will naturally embed into future finance-impacting projects, by refining existing processes and crafting new processes, if required. You may also be asked to lead the day to day delivery of some other short-term or long-term transformation elements of the ICFR project plan.
- Manage to deliver ICFR project plan according to the planned costs and timetable.
- Report on the status of change controls, highlighting clear areas where improvements need to be delivered in order for the finance transformation programme to be compliant.
- Represent the Internal Controls Transformation project team in stakeholder discussions on the topic of programme and change controls with the broader transformation programme
- Highlight potential challenges or revisions necessary to scope, timetable, resources or dependencies to the Head of IT Controls Transformation. Advise Director and the leaders on challenges.
- Identify improvement opportunities for example process changes or the automation of a particular control.
- If vital, prepare briefing documents for the Group’s external auditors on the elements of the ICFR project plan that you are managing. Perform a quality review of the documentation prepared by internal or external support showing the effective operation, ensuring that the documentation is ready for internal and external testing.
- Collaborate with the teams of other key internal stakeholders who have ownership in some or all of the ICFR project plan, the finance transformation programme and other finance-impacting projects, to deliver the vital transformation and address concerns they may have. This is likely to include teams reporting to Divisional CFOs and Divisional CIOs, and other senior members of the Group Functions such as Tax and Treasury.
- Strong project management and organisation skills, in order to be able to handle the delivery of one or several workstreams to short-term and long-term deadlines.
- Good leadership skills, for advising the day-to-day activities of the internal and external support.
- Strong communication skills, to be able to clearly articulate the status of work and the risks that may cause timetable or cost challenges.
- Good ICFR skills, covering general IT controls especially those relevant to large scale project and change management controls, is crucial.
- Some knowledge and skills to of business process controls would also be advantageous.
- Able to operate in a fast-paced environment in a management role that is empowered to deliver change.
- PCAOB audit experience and post-qualification experience in a professional services or industry role
- Experience of delivering ICFR activities day-to-day, across at least one whole financial year cycle
- Experience of navigating material weakness or significant deficiency remediation is advantageous, but not crucial.
- Some experience of significant finance transformation activities in ICFR or with ICFR impacts, such as a GRC implementation, global process owner deployment, an ERP implementation, or technology enablement of the annual ICFR cycle, is recommended
- Being a qualified accountant is good to have.
- Bonus scheme
- Uncapped holiday allowance
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Invest via the Flutters Sharesave Scheme
- Enhanced parental leave