Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Audit, or Business Administration; CPA, ACCA, CIA, COSO or equivalent required., At least 8 years of total work experience, with 4-6 years in Big 4, auditing, advisory, risk management, or internal control, preferably in a US listed company., Strong technical background in risk management/internal controls and experience with corporate governance and/or risk management activities., Excellent communication skills in English, with proficiency in Ukrainian as a plus..

Key responsibilities:

Provide support to business units for control optimization and address identified risks.

Act as custodian of the SOX methodology, ensuring its development, implementation, and monitoring.

Liaise with Internal and External Audit for coordination of testing activities and reporting on SOX control framework effectiveness.

Manage annual reporting cycle for SOX HQ control framework and provide training to ensure understanding of SOX methodology across business units.

Job description

The Manager Internal Control provides expertise, support and advice in areas of Governance, Policies, Internal Control, and Compliance for the Kyivstar Group. This position is to provide essential support to Kyivstar Group in meeting its Internal Control obligations as well as ensuring the existence and application of a fit-for-purpose internal controls framework throughout the Group.

He/she will develop strong relations with the Company’s Senior Management, and external auditor to drive Internal control culture and implementation, with a great deal of autonomy.

He/she will be leading projects in different geographical areas and cultural environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Internal Control:

· Provide support to business units in the area of control optimization.

· Provide recommendations to address identified risks

· Assist in the response to Audit findings and identifying root causes

· Champion a culture of risk and control to ensure embedded within the business

· Provide an evaluation of major control Gaps for escalation to Senior Management

· Monitor remediation of control deficiencies

SOX Methodology:

· Act as custodian of the SOX methodology including the related policies and procedures.

· Ensures that SOX methodology is developed, implemented and monitored

· Manage annual cycle for Group SOX compliance in line with RACI.

· Liaison with Internal Audit (or outsourced tester) and External Audit for coordination of scoping, planning of testing activities and deficiency evaluation.

· Effective reporting on regular basis to management, audit committee and other relevant committees with respect to the effectiveness of the SOX control framework including recommendation on required improvements and related actions.

· To ensure that the various Financial Controls/SOX focal points in the Business Units have an adequate understanding of the mandated common SOX methodology and processes, are equipped with the appropriate skills and competences to assist the delivery of SOX attestation process. Provision of training where required.

Internal Controls OpCo liaison:

· To act as the Kyivstar Group focal point for expertise and advice in SOX methodology

· To ensure that all SOX methodology and compliance related matters are escalated to the right parties when necessary and to ensure that follow-up on those issues is undertaken

· To promote knowledge sharing leading to implementation of responses to lessons learnt and to establish cross leveraging between the Kyivstar Group entities

Internal Controls Kyivstar Group liaison:

· To act as the Kyivstar Group focal point for design, implementation and monitoring of SOX control framework for HQ functions

· Actively assist HQ directors with implementation and monitoring of SOX control framework.

· Manage annual reporting cycle for SOX HQ control framework (e.g. documentation update, testing, deficiency evaluation and testing)

Assurance processes:

· Custodian of the assurance processes including financial management certification process, liaison role with other assurance functions and External audit. Completion of documents necessary for US listed company as part of SOX compliance.

Critical Skills & Experience:

· You demonstrate a high level of integrity, compliance and professionalism

· You thrive in dynamic environments and are able to effectively work under pressure with multiple projects and deadlines

· Strong Business Process Skills (understanding of Telcos, digital services companies and financial institutions is a plus)

· Ability to establish and maintain strong relations with company management and external providers, to enable when necessary to robustly challenge alternate views

· Strong project management skills - ability to successfully run multiple projects in different cultural environments with several stakeholders

· Strong technical background and/or management background in risk management/internal controls. Systems background is a plus.

· Strategic thinker with high degree of analytical talent and business process understanding

· Initiative and pro-active. Ability to function as catalyst and resource for establishing strategic directions.

· Ability to simplify complex analysis that delivers comprehensive understanding

· High degree of demonstrated collaboration with peers and clients

· Communicates crisp and effectively at the executive levels

· Experience with corporate governance and/or risk management activities

· Self-motivated, flexible, proactive and responsive

· Strong presentation skills with experience of interacting with senior management and the Board of Directors; proven ability in building strong relationships across organizations globally

· Excellent computer skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PowerBI)

· Leadership qualities, ability to work independently and capable of identifying and resolving issues

Education & Experience

· At least 8 years of total work experience; at least 4-6 years of previous experience Big 4, auditing, advisory, risk management or internal control preferably in US listed company.

· Good command of PowerBI and able to create and manage dashboards and reports

· Demonstrated ability to lead and influence diverse and multiple teams operating on a global basis

· Experience with corporate governance and/or risk management activities

· Proven knowledge of industry economics, COSO, Sarbanes-Oxley and SEC/PCAOB regulations

· In-depth understanding of the internal control issues and an understanding of which issues are relevant for SOX compliance

· Ability to simplify complex analysis that delivers comprehensive understanding

· Bachelor in Finance, Accounting, Audit or Business Administration. CPA, ACCA, CIA, COSO or equivalent is required.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, good proficiency in Ukrainian is a strong plus.

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