Risk and Controls Specialist
At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan(https://reconciliationactionplan.withgoogle.com/) for more information.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in finance/accounting/controls.
Preferred qualifications:
- CA/CPA or other professional accounting certification.
- Experience in internal audit or/and consulting.
- Experience with management and financial systems/processes and the implications on compliance and controls.
- Ability to effectively maintain and manage stakeholder relationships cross-culturally (both internally and externally).
- Ability to work cross-functionally and cross-regionally with Vice Presidents/Directors and to present and communicate to audiences at all levels.
- Excellent business acumen delivered in international markets and excellent stakeholder management skills.
About the job
The Finance Operations team manages Google's cash transactions on a global basis and ensures that Google's incoming and outgoing cash processes are controlled, effective and efficient. As a member of this team, you'll find innovative ways to manage our complex set of transactions. You'll make processes more efficient and scalable, work to ensure the highest level of quality of our operations, and proactively minimize operational risk. Externally, you collaborate with our extended workforce partners and internally, you will collaborate across the multiple areas of the Financial Operations team.
As Risk and Controls Lead, you will focus on working with operations teams to ensure all processes and systems have effective controls. You will work with the process managers to review all processes and systems to ensure risks are identified, provide proposals to reduce the risks, and improve controls.
The name Google came from "googol," a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.
Responsibilities
- Own the robustness of internal financial controls in the region, working with process owners to track and report on remediation plans. Manage responses to external results from internal and external audits.
- Develop and execute a program of internal controls reviews across the region. Manage performance of the reviews to identify process improvement and controls recommendations.
- Perform risk assessments and work with cross-functional teams on assessing the impact of risk events in APAC.
- Partner with the internal team as well as other controllership teams across the region to define, establish, and implement relevant processes and controls.
