Senior Finance Risk & Controls Manager

London Finance – Finance / Employee - Permanent / Hybrid

Hello there. We’re Zopa. We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward.

Zopa Bank is one of the fastest growing neobanks in the UK. We're looking for a Senior Manager Finance Risk and Controls to join our first line Finance and Legal team to manage and develop risk and controls in a high-growth, fast paced digital bank preparing for the next stage of scale.

This is a rare opportunity that provides high visibility with senior leadership across Risk and Finance, ability to lead changes and influence Finance-wide processes, opportunity to build scalable controls and shape a strong risk and controls environment.

The Senior Finance Risk and Controls Manager will report to the Finance Director and work with leaders of each Finance function to maintain and manage robust control frameworks over all aspects of internal and external reporting. The role will cover the whole of CFO function (Financial Control, Management Reporting, Financial Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, Financial Planning and Budgeting, Tax Reporting, Treasury and Legal).

A day in the life:

• Maintain and manage the internal control frameworks as well as the design, implementation, and operating effectiveness of key controls across Finance & Legal.
• Continuous monitoring of the key Finance & Legal processes, delivering efficiencies and control automations where possible.
• Ensure Finance functions comply with operational risk framework and support leaders of each Finance function in carrying out their operational risk responsibilities.
• Liaise and work closely with Zopa 1st Line Risk and Compliance to manage risk events and change initiatives.
• Periodic review of Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) across Finance & Legal function.
• Forge a strong relationship with the first and second line risk community in the Bank.
• Periodic review and testing of Finance End User Computing (EUCs).
• Educate and support teams in appropriate execution of internal controls.
• Work closely with the first and second lines of defence and internal/external auditors as part of periodic reviews and audits.
• Prepare and present reports to senior management and Board committees.

About you:

• You're ideally a qualified accountant with demonstrable post qualification experience in external/internal audit, risk or compliance.
• You are a fast learner who is hands-on, agile and adaptable, with the confidence to lead change management across Finance.
• You have a proven track record in assessing the design, implementation, and operating effectiveness of internal controls.
• You're highly organised, effective at stakeholder management, project management and can manage conflicting priorities.
• You're resilient under pressure, embrace change and can operate in a fast-paced environment.
• You’ll be energetic, motivated, and have a passion for excellence and innovation in pursuit of success.
• An understanding of bank regulatory (PRA/FCA) reporting and compliance requirements is preferred.

At Zopa we value flexible ways of working. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week. You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!

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