Audit and Compliance Manager at Vodafone

What You’ll Do

In joining the Corporate Functions team, you will support our Vodafone Business’s colleagues in strengthening our position as an admired company in the eyes of our customers, shareholders, partners and employees. The team is varied; you will be working with colleagues from Vodafone Business organisation, and with other Group functions (Finance, Commercial, Billing, IT, Human Resources, Legal or External Affairs, Fraud, Internal Audit, etc.) supporting Vodafone Business organisation in ensuring a robust and efficient control environment. What links us all together is that we are all customer obsessed, innovation hungry and ambitious!

As our Audit & Compliance Partner you will be charged with supporting the Vodafone Business Senior Financial Manager- Controls and Compliance in developing, maintaining, regularly assessing, and enhancing a culture of effective and efficient financial and operational internal controls throughout Vodafone Business processes and across multiple legal entities.

• Promote, maintain, and enhance a culture of effective and efficient financial and operational internal controls throughout Vodafone Business processes and across relevant legal entities (registered in different countries/jurisdictions), by acting as a business partner for all stakeholders
• Ensure strong level of compliance with the Company's control framework and policies by performing periodic risk assessment reviews, control activities design and operating effectiveness assessments, and monitoring activities on remediation actions
• Identify and document relevant controls gaps and improvements/efficiency opportunities, provide support and periodically monitor the progress of the remediation actions required to timely mitigate / address the existing gaps /improvements
• Ensure that all Balance Sheet and P&L impacts from controls weaknesses are investigated and resolved, to ensure that accounting clarity is improved month on month and correct and complete financial figures are reported
• Perform audits on end-to-end processes to assure continued compliance (with policies/standards) and confirm effective, sufficient, relevant and properly designed controls are operated to mitigate existing risks
• Assist in managing, resolving, and reporting audit exceptions. Follows up on the implementation of management action plans to address identified control gaps
• Keep abreast of updates to Group Accounting Policies, Group Policies, and organisation changes, projects / programmes, and assess impact on controls and the compliance level
• Contribute with expert advice on the relevant risks and controls (new, changed) driven from programmes, project or other initiatives which impact Vodafone Business control environment
• Prepare, update, and enhance the value of the company's SOX and controls documentation and testing approach (e.g. using data analytics), with a goal of increasing effectiveness and efficiencies within processes, controls and their assessment
• Work with process /control owners and department managers to develop, implement, monitor, and run the Vodafone Business’s compliance and internal control requirements
• Provide support to Vodafone Business Finance teams to implement and ensure compliance with group policies requirements (e.g. Economic Sanctions, Data Privacy, Business Continuity, etc.)
• Provide training and guidance to managers/process owners responsible for implementing and running key controls
• Report and present to senior management, on a regular basis, the results of the assurance work and the progress on the remediation actions implementation

Who You Are

• ACCA/ACA/CIMA, CIA part of fully qualified
• Working knowledge/qualification on internal audit, Sarbanes-Oxley internal control requirements, risk management
• Working knowledge/qualification on financial accounting and reporting standards
• Working knowledge/qualification on use of data analytics and relevant tools (for scoping, delivering assessments - e.g. in tools such as PowerBI, QlikSense, Tableau, Python, etc.) and fluent in working with Microsoft Office 365 suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, Access, Power Apps, Power Automate, etc.)
• Knowledge on statistical concept used to perform data analysis and sample testing
• At least 5 years experienced in internal/external auditing and/or Sarbanes-Oxley/internal control assessment work (on manual or automated financial, operational controls), risk management (including on fraud risks)
• Knowledge of data analytics and relevant tool (for scoping, delivering and/or consuming - e.g. in tools such as PowerBI, QlikSense, Tableau, Python) and fluent in working with Microsoft Office 365 suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate etc.)
• Experienced in delivering against timescales and at the expected level of detailed quality
• Ability to think analytically, creatively, and independently
• Ability to understand complex business process flows, and rigorously identify, analyse, quantify and solve complex problems
• Strong interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and conflict management skills with the ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organisation
• Strong organisational skills, including ability to multi-task, prioritise and be comfortable with a changing environment
• Experienced in working within complex multinational and/or multi-cultural environments
• Excellent English communication, report writing, presentation