Group FCF Lead

Overview

The role will support the end‑to‑end FCF lifecycle across the organisation. This includes assisting with scoping activities, helping identify and assess risks, supporting the design and documentation of controls, and contributing to control testing and monitoring. The role will also help track issues, follow up on remediation actions, and support governance reporting. The successful candidate will play a key part in monitoring control performance, identifying gaps, and working with stakeholders to ensure timely and effective remediation, contributing to a strong and reliable control environment.

The role will support the delivery of key finance and governance initiatives by maintaining structured project oversight and actively contributing to project activities. Responsibilities include tracking milestones, maintaining project documentation, updating RAID logs, and preparing clear and consistent reporting for stakeholders. In addition to coordination tasks, the role will contribute directly to project deliverables under guidance from senior team members, helping drive progress and ensuring project outputs are delivered to the required standard.

This role will help enforce governance standards, support accountability against timelines, and ensure effective communication and transparency across all project activities.

Partner with process and control owners to support the development and maintenance of effective financial control processes and procedures that mitigate material financial reporting and fraud risks

Assist in ensuring overall process documentation is complete, accurate, and compliant with the FCF

Support annual FCF scoping exercises and risk refreshes, helping to identify, assess, and document key risks and controls

Contribute to process deep dives to ensure the FCF remains effective, up to date, and aligned with business changes

Support the evaluation of control design and operating effectiveness in line with FCF requirements

Develop the annual validation plan and perform validation testing across business-critical processes

Review reconciliation processes and associated controls to ensure adherence to policy

Support review of ITGC and EUCA validation testing and assess implications for the FCF and Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICOFR)

Use key management information (incidents, assurance reports, project impacts, etc.) to understand control and operational risks affecting process performance

Track, monitor, and help drive timely remediation of control deficiencies through action logs and follow‑up with owners

Ensure remediation actions are sustainable and effectively mitigate material risks, including identifying compensating controls where required

Liaise with Group Internal Audit (GIA) to understand the impact of identified weaknesses on the FCF and support remediation planning

Co-ordinate the quarterly Control & Process Owner sign‑off cycle within the GRC portal

Coordinate updates and changes within the GRC system to ensure accurate and timely information

Produce quarterly MI dashboards and reporting for Controllership, Risk and Audit Committees

Support management of Risk Acceptances (RA) and Remediation Plans Agreed (RPA)

Assist in managing external audit review activities related to ICOFR

Partner with the business during change programmes to ensure the financial control environment is maintained and strengthened

Identify opportunities to improve control robustness and process efficiency during transformation or system changes

Apply critical thinking to assess risks, issues, and process changes, ensuring controls remain effective and aligned to material risk mitigation

Support the delivery of key finance and governance projects by contributing to project tasks, analysis, and preparation of deliverables

Assist with day‑to‑day project activities to ensure progress against timeline

Help coordinate project meetings, prepare agendas, capture…