Controls Advisory Lead

Company Description

Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments - from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers - we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organizations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 20,000 people operating across 44 countries and every day we’re investing in new technologies, talented people, and innovation to help all our clients maximize every opportunity.

**Job Description**:
The Controls Advisory Analyst will be responsible for developing controls governance processes, standards, methodologies and supporting the business implementation of Experian’s most critical controls through advice, oversight, and quality assurance. They will have input into the definition of control objectives, and both design and implementation of control activities as well as helping oversee the Experian controls assurance methodology.

**Role responsibilities**:

- Support the development and maintenance of governance processes for controls with a focus on controls objective definition, control design and implementation, and associated oversight and QA processes.
- Operationalise and execute governance and support 1LOD and other 2LOD functions in adherence to control frameworks and governance.
- Lead development of training requirements for all things controls and where required working with our Training teams to prioritise course creation and delivery.
- Implement and execute quality assurance processes for controls to validate that documented control objective and activities comply with defined governance processes and are appropriately recorded in Archer GRC.
- Lead the development of requirements, prioritisation and testing of GRC (our central repository) changes to support the controls organisation.

**Qualifications**:
**Key requirements and person profile**:

- 6-10 years experience in a risk management, controls or audit role with at least 2-3 years of that time working in transformational projects or a global organization.
- Tier-1/2 consulting experience and / or work in a technology or similar company is a plus
- Experience of control design and testing, internal audit, risk management, information security, finance or operational management roles. Risk transformation and controls implementation experience would be beneficial. i.
- Beneficial: continuous improvement, program execution and change management
- Good understanding of best practice risk and control frameworks. Ideally undertaken previous risk and control review/audit & improvement project. Experience of RSA ARCHER beneficial but not essential.
- Self-motivated team player with an entrepreneurial yet pragmatic mindset and get-things-done mentality
- Ability to work within a global team, across multiple time zones, with different regions and many workstreams
- Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to formulate insights around complex business problems with senior audiences
- Strong personal initiative and good judgment; desire to succeed in a demanding, innovative, and entrepreneurial environment
- Ability to adapt quickly and work independently
- Desire to continuously learn and develop skills
- Ability to assimilate information and synthesize a way forward quickly; takes an evidence-based approach
- Gravitas, comfortable expressing views in front of senior executives
- Team oriented and highly collaborative approach
- Able to work across a variety of topics and learn new areas
- Reliable and diligent personality with eagerness to contribute to the success of the team
- Excellent communicator, experienced in managing own performance and contributing to team spirit

Additional Information

Our benefits include: Medical, life and dental insurance, Asociacion Solidarista, International Share Save Plan, Flex Work/Work from home, Paid time off, Annual Performance Bonus, Education Reimbursement, Family Bonding, Bereavement Leave, Referral Program, and more.

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