One Stop - Finance Control Manager ICFR Project

at  One Stop Convenience Stores Limited

About the role
At One Stop we aim to serve our local shoppers a little better every day, with a culture that is friendly, fun and where everyone is treated with respect, you have a really great place to work. As part of the team, you can make a difference to our business by:

• Treating each other how they like to be treated.
• Making things easier.
• Working together as one team.
• Making our customers at the heart of everything we do.

We want you to understand the business inside out, we need you to live and embed our values and build great relationships with the amazing people across our business.
As a business we’re at our best when we’re connected and working together. We believe coming together in person enables us to deliver more effectively on our core purpose and provides stronger connection between colleagues, as well as with customers, and suppliers. It also allows us to truly experience the culture which makes One Stop a great place to work for all. At One Stop we offer a flexible working pattern that will support us to connect more in person, whilst continuing to provide the flexibility that we know you value and maintain the benefits we have experienced from blended working. All colleagues will be expected to spend at least two days each week working in the office and should expect to come together more than this on a regular basis, as needed, on any given week, this will be driven by role, business priorities, workload requirements, or to enable us to work more effectively together. Please talk to us about what this means for you.

You will be responsible for

• Strengthening One Stop’s control environment is a key objective of Senior Management, particularly in light of recent corporate governance reform, and this position will sit within the team tasked with making these things happen.
• Responsible for shaping and embedding our Key Financial Controls Framework across Finance.
• Closely connected to the day- to- day operation of our finance processes, working collaboratively across a number of stakeholders to provide expert guidance on financial controls design.
• Reviewing the design of our key financial controls through process walkthroughs and discussions with control owners and Global Process Owners.
• Designing our annual control monitoring programme including testing, self assessment and continuous controls monitoring.
• Ongoing review, update and improvement of our internal control methodology and ways of working.
• Working with the finance team to ensure controls are embedded in new processes and system implementations.
• Supporting our controls culture by developing and running training, providing information sessions and building control communities.
• Performing quality assurance over control testing performed.
• Preparing reporting, including to Senior Management and the Audit Committee, on the results of the project programme and the control testing.
• Providing advice to the first line on controls, investigating control failures.
• working with our Group Risk function and Internal Audit function.
• I carry out other tasks as required by my manager.

SKILLS I NEED

• Excel
• Visio
• Excellent communication skills
• A problem solver
• Confident and resilient
• Results driven with excellent planning and organisational skills

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3 years post ACA qualified or equivalent.
• Technical knowledge and training in financial reporting
  You will need

STAY CURIOUS:

Looking in different places for new ideas and perspectives
Being inclusive and giving everyone a voice
Wanting to learn more
Seeking to understand yourself and others
Embracing change and adapting to the opportunities and challenges it brings
Understanding how your work enables our purpose and strategy

ABOUT US

One Stop Stores Limited is a retail convenience business with over 1,000 company and franchise neighbourhood stores across Great Britain. We employ more than 10,500 colleagues.
The majority of our stores are open seven days a week from 7am to 10pm and offer local communities an impressive range of fresh and chilled food, cupboard essentials, lunchtime meal deals, frozen food, household essentials, snacks and treats and beers, wines and spirits. Whether it’s popping in for a quick snack or grabbing ingredients for an evening meal, One Stop has everything its customers’ need.
In addition to One Stop’s comprehensive product range, many of our stores offer services to enhance the shopping experience, including free cash machines, Post Office, Evri Parcelshop, PayPoint (for bill payments and mobile top-up), lottery, as well as vending solutions such as Costa Coffee and Tango Ice Blast.
One Stop is a subsidiary of Tesco which acquired the stores in 2003. We operate as a separate business from our Head Office, also known as Store Support Centre in Brownhills, Walsall, West Midlands and we service our stores from 3 distribution centres in Brownhills, Nursling (Hampshire) and Wakefield (West Yorkshire).
With our stores situated throughout England and Wales, there’s sure to be One Stop near where you live or work.
We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Level 2 and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

• Strengthening One Stop’s control environment is a key objective of Senior Management, particularly in light of recent corporate governance reform, and this position will sit within the team tasked with making these things happen.
• Responsible for shaping and embedding our Key Financial Controls Framework across Finance.
• Closely connected to the day- to- day operation of our finance processes, working collaboratively across a number of stakeholders to provide expert guidance on financial controls design.
• Reviewing the design of our key financial controls through process walkthroughs and discussions with control owners and Global Process Owners.
• Designing our annual control monitoring programme including testing, self assessment and continuous controls monitoring.
• Ongoing review, update and improvement of our internal control methodology and ways of working.
• Working with the finance team to ensure controls are embedded in new processes and system implementations.
• Supporting our controls culture by developing and running training, providing information sessions and building control communities.
• Performing quality assurance over control testing performed.
• Preparing reporting, including to Senior Management and the Audit Committee, on the results of the project programme and the control testing.
• Providing advice to the first line on controls, investigating control failures.
• working with our Group Risk function and Internal Audit function.
• I carry out other tasks as required by my manager