Job Description for Senior Control Specialist - Control Services

Scope of Position:

Reporting to the Team lead - Controls Services. The successful applicant will be encouraged to demonstrate their knowledge and experience across different functions/departments/processes to operate Internal controls for different processes across COO.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Be accountable for the Internal control operation.
• Ensure understanding of the internal controls, its objective, and the risk it is trying to mitigate.
• Ensure preparation/revision of standard operating procedures for respective controls as and when required
• Ensure completion of control operation (Financial/Key/Operational) with accuracy and within defined timelines.
• Ensures responsibility of evidence gathering and storage for future retrieval purpose.
• Collaborate with customers/parters to ensure that impact of changes in the operational process is fully understood to align with its impact on the control design and operation.
• Be responsible to raise control related issues to the respective teams and ensure closure within timelines.
• Recommend and implement improvements to controls processes (participate in improvement/simplification projects), ensuring changes to internal controls are agreed by management and signed off by the respective customers/partners.
• Ensure that preparation, outputs, and follow-up for audits are carried out to the required standard as determined by relevant internal parties. Lead process walkthroughs to external auditors. Collect, generate and dispatch data feed access declarations (DADs).
• Organizes and attends internal meetings and supports in the preparation of responses to requests for information from various customers/partners.

Control Framework Compliance:

• Develop understanding of the LSEG Control framework and related policies and standards.

Relationship with control owners:

• Partner with control owners to ensure Control operation and monitoring. Providing regular updates on control operation status.
• Relationship with 1st LOD and 2LOD:
• Partner with the 1st LOD and 2 LOD Risk to ensure the operation of Internal controls owned by CST/respective business/functions with accuracy and within defined timelines.
• Partner with 2LOD risk to ensure alignment of the Control Services processes with Group Risk standards.
• Relationship with 3LOD Internal Audit: Partner with 3LOD Audit to provide the level of clarity encouraged.
• Analytics and Automation: Develop relevant skills and apply them to find opportunities to use analytics and automation for the operation of controls.
• Governance and reporting:  Support the Team leads with preparation and reporting of MI/KRIs on scope coverage and effectiveness of the Control Services function.

Experience/Skills Requirements:

• Candidate with proven track record in Operations background (e.g., Order Management/AP/AR experience/BSR) will be preferred. Profiles with understanding of Internal control design and operation background will be an added advantage.
• Any bachelor’s degree with the proven experience and skills.
• Candidate should be able to connect with transparency and precision.
• Ability to multitask with organization skills.
• Ability to work independently and be a problem solver.
• A proven focus on continual improvement.
• An Innovative approach to work.
• Strong understanding of operation processes.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office specially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Data Analytics skills would be an added advantage

Career Stage:

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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