Job Description
Strengthening the Smiths Group internal control environment is a priority for management and the Board. The Group Internal Controls team was established to address key finance control priorities and controls over the IT environment which include both general IT and segregation of duties controls.
Collectively, this has driven a group-wide internal controls transformation and enhancement programme to support the business meet requirements in readiness for UK Corporate Reform (“UK SOX”). The scope of the programme includes implementing and embedding a standardised financial and IT control framework, enabling this through a group-wide technology platform, executing the annual Internal Controls testing plan, and driving remediation in a pragmatic way identifying opportunities to standardise and automate processes to enable enhanced standards to be achieved efficiently and sustainability.
This is a high-profile role within the business. The ideal cand...