Job description Posted 14 March 2019

Risk & Reporting Analyst

GSK House, Brentford

12 Month Contract

Pay: up to £430 per day


Job Purpose

Support Finance teams to mitigate risk by performing adequate risk assessments, risk mitigation plans including implementing compensating controls, data cleansing or other solutions and preparing adequate documentation. This role will perform reporting on Global Finance risk after considering risk mitigation plans, controls testing. And prepare finance compliance reporting to internal and external parties.


Key Responsibilities

1. Prepare reports/communications to Senior Management or external parties including the CFO/Financial Controller/Audit and Risk Committee (ARC)/SVPs of Functional Areas on the results of Compliance initiatives, SOX controls testing, risk mitigation plans and any other finance risk and/or compliance reporting.

2. Coordinate relations with the External Auditors or other third parties (GEC- ABAC, SEC...) in relation to risk and controls

3. Provide support to SOX compliance champions across the Finance organization in relation to controls testing

4. Coordination of the updating of results of testing, global control monitoring and framework tool supported by offshore 3rd party (currently BWISE/ and in future SAP GRC)

5. Manage third party providers for SOX coordination and administration of BWISE and SAP GRC (Access rights, structures, etc)

6. Provide support for CFO LT risk management – maintenance of risk register, map etc

7. Coordinate across risk groups and across Global Finance to ensure other enterprise risks adequately supported by Finance

8. Perform reporting on SLAs on service catalogue (management of control change requests, report issues, etc) and share with internal customers

9. Managing the collation and reporting of control testing deficiencies (issues) and monthly monitoring of remediation progress to Group Financial Controller

10. Managing the Sarbanes-Oxley global scoping process and communicating the annual instructions/timetable to the SarbOx community.

11. Managing the year end compliance tasks, including Management Representation Letters and Consent/Waiver Forms

12. Collation of appropriate evidence to support the CEO’s and CFO’s certification under Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, involving:

 Ownership of the year end General Manager /Finance Director certification process (an automated certification process)

 Evaluation of frauds

 Maintenance of related process documentation



Educational/Candidate Background

  • Newly qualified CA, or CIA qualified
  • Specialist in Finance, Internal Control and Audit
  • The job holder must have understanding of financial processes to appreciate issues that are being identified during L1 / IBM and SOX testing.
  • The job holder should have experience of Finance, Accounting and Auditing processes, preferably in a multinational environment. Ability to communicate effectively to and influence senior management is an absolute must.


Additional information about the process

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications, we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply.