Financial Controls Specialist

Your main purpose

Deploy a continuous controls monitoring approach, aiming to reduce incidences of error, enhance operational efficiency and automate manual testing procedures.

Examine transactional data and detail transaction analysis against cut-off thresholds to identify unusual activity; timely identify key risks, exceptions, errors and anomalies and detect outliers in financial processes and transactions that may be taking on increased risk or experiencing atypical rates of change.

Develop a robust data validation capability and criteria to ensure integrity, quality, accuracy and completeness; acquire data for routine use by establishing access to data sources, cleansing and validating the data.

Extract data and combine from a variety of systems across the organization, relate it for further cross-platform analysis, remove unreliable transactions, and prepare the data in a standard audit format.

Automate data feeds to reduce validation time, increase the frequency of analysis, and examine, analyze and evaluate trends and patterns in exceptions, errors, anomalies, and outliers within a single financial process, as compared with its own past performance, against other processes/systems operating within the organization or via benchmarking.

Highlight areas where controls are not performing adequately and detect emerging areas of risk and control weaknesses.

What will you bring?

Education & Certifications: University degree in Business, Finance, Data or Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field (Master’s degree considered a plus); professional certifications (ex. CIA, ACCA, CIMA) will be considered an asset.

Experience: 3–5 years of experience in data or statistical analysis, within an internal controls or audit environment; experience with ERP systems and process automation tools, multinational business environments, and exposure to APQC or other related process taxonomies and benchmarks will be considered an asset.

Technical Skills: Excellent knowledge of MS Office, particularly Excel; experience on continuous controls monitoring and data mining (processing large datasets using digital tools such as ACL, Python, Power BI, Excel/Power Query or similar tools); familiarity with AI tools and other digital tools will be considered an asset.

Knowledge of Frameworks: Knowledge of Internal Controls standards and procedures (for example COSO Internal Controls Framework, COSO Enterprise Risk Management Framework, SOX internal controls framework) will be considered an asset.

Competencies: Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, ability to process complex and multiple sources data, and a collaborative mindset with the ability to work with multidisciplinary teams.

Languages: Fluency in English, both spoken and written, at a professional corporate level; fluency in Greek and Spanish language will be considered a plus.