Your new company
Hays are working in partnership with a highly reputable and international insurance business, with extensive global operations, to recruit a new member to their Financial Controls & Transformation team. This company is highly regarded as an employer, with a highly competitive offering, flexibility and trust to deliver in your role. They are genuinely people-focused with excellent staff retention numbers, supporting growth and development across every function.

Your new role
This role will support large-scale business-led change and finance transformation initiatives that are crucial for strategic growth. You will be at the forefront of providing a robust control environment, enabling the business to achieve higher levels of efficiency while minimising risk. You will have autonomy to work with a vast number of business units to drive meaningful change in a variety of ways, working in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
You'll have the opportunity to improve the efficiency and sustainability of the control environment, including opportunities to leverage emerging technologies.Created in response to significant transformation activities within Finance, this role emphasises the importance of a high-quality, sustainable control environment.As a subject matter expert, you'll partner with various stakeholders across finance, using your expertise to generate ideas, challenge processes and support delivery.You will focus on the full lifecycle of the change process, and will include using your subject matter expertise to:

• Provide support to identify opportunities to drive improvements in the control environment, leveraging the planned change activity.
• Support the design and implementation of controls and integration into planned process improvements.
• Support the identification of risks associated with change delivery and design of mitigating activities.
• Support and challenge through the various stages of change delivery, including testing and business readiness activity.
• Provide input and support on the design and implementation of an overarching framework for supporting finance colleagues assess and address risk and controls through change delivery.

You will be working in a partnering role with individuals leading and delivering finance transformation and change activity, therefore you will be building working relationships with appropriate contacts and building your understanding of the relevant impacted processes, systems, and data.

What you'll need to succeed
You will be a fully qualified accountant, ideally from a Top 10 firm and have a strong grounding in audit, risk and financial controls. You will have experience in improving financial control processes or delivering outcomes to reduce risk. You will have strong financial reporting skills within the insurance industry. You will have an affinity for the utilisation of new technologies that could benefit or enhance a business process, and be open to the positive elements and pitfalls of using such tools. You will have excellent communication ability and be able to engage with stakeholders at all levels of business to drive operational change.

What you'll get in return
You will receive a highly competitive package: an annual performance-based bonus of up to 10% of annual salary, 50% hybrid working opportunity, up to 14% pension, 37 days annual leave (inc BH), plus a range of discounts and optional salary sacrifice benefits. They also offer excellent, enhanced maternity/paternity/parental and carers leave, amongst other things.

What you need to do now

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