Risk & Control Assurance Advisor

You will be joining the Financial Division and be part of our Internal Controls Team (FICA) within the Finance Transversal department. You will be responsible for ensuring the Finance closing processes are effective for all Euroclear group entities handled within our Finance Service Center.

• Responsible for the delivery of the firm’s end-to-end controls framework within particular lines of business. Individuals liaise with Compliance and Risk departments to ensure a seamless integration of the controls framework. Core areas within the framework typically include Controls, Governance, and Issue Management.
• Provides assurance on the design and effectiveness of the control environment, including during operational life cycle.
• Develops and implements programmes to establish and maintain control standards of existing and new products and services.
• Reports on identified control issues and plays a key role in issue resolution and future planning.
• Support the business in maturing their control environment in a consistent manner.
• Continuously stimulate risk awareness and focus. Develops programmes to focus employees on the improvement of risk and control.

• Responsible for providing assurance to the Financial closing processes and related control environment.
• Coordination and planning of timely issues resolution from previous months
• Monitoring and follow up of the General Ledger Ownership process (GLO – Balance Sheet reconciliation), ensuring it is timely & effectively performed, detected issues are tackled and solved within the month, process issues in the GLO are timely discussed with the Finance Internal Control Framework guardian
• Ensure all relevant information is properly widespread within all teams involved in the closing chain
• Participate & document to the Provision & Impairment Committee (PIC) and provide guidelines to Finance operational teams to book required adjustments
• Ease the Master Data Committee in order to help Finance operational teams to ensure a smooth & compliant IFRS accounting (with smooth local restatement when required)
• Help in the yearly accounts recertification of accesses and accounts
• Liaise, interact and support internal and external audit discussions and requests ;
• Build Reporting towards management
• Promote Risk awareness
• Dialogoue is with the business managers

• Ensures the Financial Closing Processes are smooth and effectives
• Builds the control and test plan for the Financial Closing, up to the GLO, and ensures execution.
• Performs complex / ad-hoc Financial support that requires out of the box thinking
• Identifies gaps and potential recomendations to mitigate. Formulates recommendations with business & challenges business if there is lack of consensus on necessity to close gaps.
• Has a broad knowledge of the accounting and builds knowledge as required for focus of work
• Risk sensitive mindset in day to day work - challenges assumptions or conclusions derived by the business.
• Validate findings on clearance GLO testing that feed action plans - validate with senior managemnt the reports from the team
• Perform GLO environment review and provide an opinion of the GLO environment.
• Provide reports on the assurance of the GLO environment
• Ensure work is compliant with methodology and GLO objectives.
• Responsible for reporting on findings from GLO tests.
• Centralises information and provides assurance reports on the GLO environment
• Centralises information and provides documentations on the PIC decisions, ensures the adjustements are timely booked
• Ease the Master Data Committee in line with IFRS & Local GAAP requirements
• Participate to the yearly recertification of accesses and accounts
• Works on transversal innitiatives of median size involving change management at middle management level
• Works autonomously
• Supports junior colleagues

Bachelor or Master in finance / accounting with a few years of experience

Excellent excel skills

Sound knowledge of accounting (IAS/IFRS) principles

Professional English communication skills are key (ie. corporate language)

Eager to learn, problem analysis and problem solving skills, proactive

Able to work both independently and as part of a team

Excellent communications skills

Experience in working with an integrated ERP system, preferably Oracle, is an asset