eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Brightwater

• Location

  Ireland-Dublin

• Remuneration

  up to €65,000

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  30 Oct 2008

• eFC Ref no

  455877

A world leader in financial services, spanning across 130 countries. As part of a team of 38, this role offers excellent autonomy to drive forward internal control enhancement across the Dublin and the German offices. Fluent German ideal with strong SOX, flowcharts and process documentation

As world leaders in insurance and financial services this leading group spans across 130 countries and jurisdictions. A leading provider of retirement services, financial services and asset management around the world they are also listed on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as the stock exchanges in Paris, Switzerland and Tokyo.

The Role

• The current vacancy is for a qualified accountant who will report directly to the Risks and Controls Specialist with specific responsibility for completion of Risk and Controls Self Assessment as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Anti–fraud program and other Operational and Enterprise Risk management areas.
• Responsibilities will include:-
• Responsible for the roll-out of the Risks and Control program, Anti- fraud and other areas of the Operational Risks function
• Ensure the integrity of financial reporting by leading the documentation, testing, evaluation, reporting and remediation phases of Risk and Controls self assessment
• Development and implementation of standard accounting procedures and controls across multiple territories
• Responsible for the design of business process documentation, flowcharts, testing of controls and remediation of business process within deadlines set
• Responsible for Business Process Engineering for functions
• Responsible for formation and maintaining of effective working relationships with other members of the team
• ( Actuarial, Finance, Compliance, Administration, IT)
• Effective scheduling and organisational skills
• Effective communication skills
• Ensure robust financial controls and sound commercial practices / decisions
• Follow developments under Solvency II and assessing implications
• Development and implementation of standard accounting procedures and controls across multiple territories
• Ensure future product launches are compatible with accounting processes or appropriate alterations are made to finance or administration processes
• Formation of effective working relationships with other members of the team (e.g. Accounting, Compliance, Administration, IT, Actuarial)

 Technology skillsExposure to any of the following systems will be an advantage : Epicor eBackOffice (Platinum), Ingenium, Princeton Asset Management (PAM), InvestPro, Visio, OpenPages 

The Person

• Demonstrate analytical thinking, problem-solving and initiative in handling tasks
• Effective scheduling and organisational skills
• Can identify problem areas for attention and develop action plans to remediate
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Exposure to basic project management
• Commitment to ongoing professional development