Manager - Global Financial Controls CoE

Job Description:

Job Title – Manager –Global Financial Controls CoE

The Purpose of This Role

The Global Financial Controls CoE (GFC) is an enterprise-wide function that supports the Finance strategic objective of ensuring a strong financial controls environment. The function provides reasonable assurance over the completeness and accuracy over the key processes that impact Fidelity’s financial statements. Specifically, GFC evaluates the design and operating effectiveness of key financial controls through the execution of integrated reviews.

The Manager role delivers significant value by assessing key risks and controls supporting Fidelity’s financial controls environment through integrated audits. This is a high visibility role with frequent interactions with senior leaders including Business Unit Controllers (SVP/VPs), Function Heads, process/control owners, and other risk groups. Based on experience, candidates will be assessed at the Manager or Senior Associate level, and this role will report to a Director within the Global Financial Controls CoE

The Value You Deliver

• Assist GFC engagement teams with integrated workstream execution
• Coordinate with external auditors and other internal risks teams to support the financial audit
• Support creation of high quality workstream deliverables (e.g., process flows, RCMs,
  workpaper documentation)
• Discuss findings and improvement opportunities noted with the GFC workstream teams and client contacts
• Effectively manage assigned deliverables in a timely manner and hold self-accountable
• Assess the design and operating effectiveness of key ITACs, manual controls and key reports (IPEs)
• Lead or participate in process walkthroughs with process and control owners
• Cultivate productive relationships with GFC team members and internal business partners
• Support training of local Control Leads and Executors on internal controls methodology and tools.
• Provide guidance on the use of technology to support our internal controls processes.
• Support GFCs’ IT Center of Excellence (CoE) and help co-lead internal training initiatives
• High level of professionalism, sense of urgency, and self-motivation

The Skills that are Good To Have for this role

• Must be able to successfully navigate an ambiguous environment and manage your time effectively with multiple significant priorities.
• Exhibit excellent people skills, influence, and tact across multiple and diverse business groups.
• Be open to coaching and accept feedback in all aspects of the role and execution.
• Must have a mindset that "owns the outcome" by working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to ensure an excellent end-to-end outcome.
• Exhibit excellent communications, analytic, and problem-solving skills, keeping the customer at the front of your analysis and solution development.
• Ability to identify repetitive, manual, and knowledge-intensive work and translate it into scalable AI-enabled operating models. 

 How Your Work Impacts the Organization

This role contributes to the integrity and reliability of the firm's financial reporting by providing assurance over key technology-enabled financial processes and controls. Through the identification of control gaps, emerging risks, and improvement opportunities, the role helps strengthen the overall control environment and supports compliance with regulatory and governance requirements.

The role's assessments and recommendations assist management in mitigating risk, enhancing operational effectiveness, and maintaining stakeholder confidence in the firm's financial reporting and control framework.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s Degree or above in relevant fields (e.g., CS, IT, Information Security, Accounting)
• Three to five years of experience with IT Audits and/or integrated audits. Experience with Big 4 audit firms desirable.
• Professional certification CISA and/or CA desired. Other relevant certifications DISA, CISSP, CIA and CPA
• Public Accounting (SOX / IT SOX) and/or relevant Internal Audit experience desirable
• Direct experience with IT General Controls (ITGCs) and IT Applications Controls (ITACs) testing
• Experience on Internal Financial Controls (IFC) as per The Companies Act, experience with manual controls environment and Management Review Control (MRC) procedures.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to present information to team members and clients
• Ability to manage competing priorities and workloads within team settings in matrixed environments
• Strong learning agility to quickly understand and connect key concepts
• Exposure partnering with the Financial Audit teams in performing integrated audits as an IT Audit SME
• Exposure to general accounting concepts including financial statement risks and controls desirable
• Financial services industry experience desirable

Location : Bangalore - EGL

Shift timings: 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

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Accounting