SVP Financial Governance

Job Description:

Mubadala is a leading global and responsible investor with $385 billion AUM, five global offices and business investments in 50+ countries. While creating sustainable financial returns, we deliver impact and help find solutions to the world's biggest challenges.

As a business, we aim to double the size of our portfolio over the next decade. To achieve this, we are seeking talent with corporate experience that can contribute to the organization’s success across local and global offices, including London, Beijing and New York.

Join a team that is at the heart of change and be part of Abu Dhabi’s economic diversification and investment opportunities globally in partnership with some of the world’s largest financial institutions.

Find out more about how you can add value to our business.

This role sits within Financial Governance & Reporting (FGR) and is responsible for leading the financial governance, internal control, and ICFR agenda across Mubadala’s Group Finance environment. The role is expected to ensure that Mubadala’s financial information is supported by a robust, well-evidenced, and auditable control environment.

• Lead group-wide financial governance activities across legal entities, investees, and platforms, ensuring compliance with Mubadala policy requirements.
• Drive robust governance and controls over the financial close process, including close calendar governance, control ownership, reconciliation standards, and management sign-off.
• Provide executive-level leadership of Mubadala’s ICFR programme under COSO principles, including risk-based scoping, risk and control matrices, testing of control design and operating effectiveness, deficiency evaluation, remediation tracking, and management attestation, together with oversight of the ICFR programmes of significant investees.
• Act as a senior partner to investees and various Mubadala head office units, while leading the governance agenda across systems, data, and control processes.

• The role is designed to lead the Mubadala Group ICFR and financial governance framework across Mubadala Head office and its platforms, and to provide Group-level oversight of the ICFR programmes of significant investees, in an environment requiring consistency, transparency, and quality across multiple jurisdictions, platforms, and investee reporting models.
• The candidate is expected to have exceptional working knowledge and experience of internal control and ICFR frameworks, specifically COSO 2013, SOX-style control programmes, risk-based scoping, control design and testing, and deficiency remediation.
• The role also requires strong governance over the financial close control environment, policy compliance, and evolving digital processes and system controls, and the ability to embed a sustainable control ownership and attestation culture across Finance.
• The role will involve travel to investee locations to oversee and monitor investee ICFR programmes.

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Group ICFR framework under COSO 2013 principles across Mubadala Head office and in-scope entities.
• Oversee the external consultants that maybe engaged to support the Mubadala Head office ICFR programme, including scope, quality and timeliness of deliverables, value for money, and knowledge transfer to the FGR team.
• Own the annual risk-based ICFR scoping, including materiality, significant accounts, key processes, and in-scope entities, and maintain process narratives and risk and control matrices.
• Oversee testing of the design and operating effectiveness of entity-level, process-level, IT general, and application controls, including key…