Algemene informatie vacature:
Governance Specialist
WO
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ZH
04-10-2024
- De functie
The Finance Governance Specialist role, is part of the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) and you will work in an international and dynamic environment. The Finance Governance Specialist will report to the GRC Supervisor.
Within the organisation you will be the sparring partner for internal and external stakeholders, in this position you will be responsible governance and policies & procedures. You will take the lead in the day-to-day activities, solving issues, implementing procedures and controls and process improvements.Within this public listed company you are acting as it is a start-up situation due to rapid growth and newly founded European Headquarter.
Responsibilities
- Support the development and continuously improvement of the governance framework for the organisation and its subsidiaries.
- Be the custodian of the organisation policy management framework, including Management Guide, Office Manual and all charters across the group.
- Review detailed procedures and policies and revising office manuals and management guides.
- Ensure compliance with the steering documents and is responsible for a number of key continuous improvement initiatives to develop a corporate governance process for the orgvanisation.
- Support different stakeholders through corporate governance analysis of group companies.
- Verifying decision-making and risk-taking procedures, in the form of limits (tolerances), by management, and defined in accordance with risk appetite, are strictly complied with.
- Maintain detailed knowledge of the various governing agreements to ensure that the organisation processes are in compliance with the corporate steering documents.
- Review detailed procedures and guidelines, these include conducting review of company finance and accounting guidelines and office manual.
- Become a focal point of contact between organisation and Group Companies governance issues in view of established steering document. Also, align and seek corporate legal organizations recommendations on legal issues facing or raised by affiliates affairs.
- Identify Corporate Governance issues, coordinate input from across the company (i.e. Legal, Finance, etc.), and develop recommendations on how the issues should be addressed.
- Ensure alignment of policies with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
- Maintain and develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Assist in ad hoc tasks relative to Governance and/or Risk.
- Assist with coordination of and provide support to internal audits and ensure adequate and timely follow-up.
- Draft Board presentations in the area of GRC.
- Support the Governance, Risk and Controlling throughout the organisation.
- Previous experience with Policies and Procedures (writing and managing)
- De functie-eisen
- Master degree within Finance/Accounting.
- Preferably CPA / RA qualified.
- At least 10+ years of experience in a relevant international corporate governance positions.
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbally.
- Strong stakeholders focus and quality orientation.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- Excellent in both analytical and conceptual thinking.
- Able to apply critical reasoning to bring clarity and insight.
- Effective written communication skills – prepare documents and reports that are easily understood, gather data, and prepare analysis and recommendations.
- Self-management of own workload
- An understanding of governance planning and monitoring
- Experience of compliance reporting and corporate governance including development and reviewing policy and regulatory change
- An understanding of risk management frameworks, identifying and managing risk and related controls