Audit and Compliance Manager
Join Us
At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.
What you’ll do
In joining the Corporate Functions team, you will support our Vodafone Business’s colleagues in strengthening our position as an admired company in the eyes of our customers, shareholders, partners and employees. The team is varied; you will be working with colleagues from Vodafone Business organisation, and with other Group functions (Finance, Commercial, Billing, IT, Human Resources, Legal or External Affairs, Fraud, Internal Audit, etc.) supporting Vodafone Business organisation in ensuring a robust and efficient control environment. What links us all together is that we are all customer obsessed, innovation hungry and ambitious!
As our Audit & Compliance Partner you will be charged with supporting the Vodafone Business Senior Financial Manager- Controls and Compliance in developing, maintaining, regularly assessing, and enhancing a culture of effective and efficient financial and operational internal controls throughout Vodafone Business processes and across multiple legal entities.
• Promote, maintain, and enhance a culture of effective and efficient financial and operational internal controls throughout Vodafone Business processes and across relevant legal entities (registered in different countries/jurisdictions), by acting as a business partner for all stakeholders.
• Ensure strong level of compliance with the Company's control framework and policies by performing periodic risk assessment reviews, control activities design and operating effectiveness assessments, and monitoring activities on remediation actions.
• Identify and document relevant controls gaps and improvements/efficiency opportunities, provide support and periodically monitor the progress of the remediation actions required to timely mitigate / address the existing gaps /improvements.
• Ensure that all Balance Sheet and P&L impacts from controls weaknesses are investigated and resolved, to ensure that accounting clarity is improved month on month and correct and complete financial figures are reported.
• Perform audits on end-to-end processes to assure continued compliance (with policies/standards) and confirm effective, sufficient, relevant and properly designed controls are operated to mitigate existing risks.
• Assist in managing, resolving, and reporting audit exceptions. Follows up on the implementation of management action plans to address identified control gaps.
• Keep abreast of updates to Group Accounting Policies, Group Policies, and organisation changes, projects / programmes, and assess impact on controls and the compliance level.
• Contribute with expert advice on the relevant risks and controls (new, changed) driven from programmes, project or other initiatives which impact Vodafone Business control environment.
• Prepare, update, and enhance the value of the company's SOX and controls documentation and testing approach (e.g. using data analytics), with a goal of increasing effectiveness and efficiencies within processes, controls and their assessment.
• Work with process /control owners and department managers to develop, implement, monitor, and run the Vodafone Business’s compliance and internal control requirements.
• Provide support to Vodafone Business Finance teams to implement and ensure compliance with group policies requirements (e.g. Economic Sanctions, Data Privacy, Business Continuity, etc.)
• Provide training and guidance to managers/process owners responsible for implementing and running key controls.
• Report and present to senior management, on a regular basis, the results of the assurance work and the progress on the remediation actions implementation.
Who you are
• ACCA/ACA/CIMA, CIA part of fully qualified.
• Working knowledge/qualification on internal audit, Sarbanes-Oxley internal control requirements, risk management.
• Working knowledge/qualification on financial accounting and reporting standards.
• Working knowledge/qualification on use of data analytics and relevant tools (for scoping, delivering assessments - e.g. in tools such as PowerBI, QlikSense, Tableau, Python, etc.) and fluent in working with Microsoft Office 365 suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, Access, Power Apps, Power Automate, etc.).
• Knowledge on statistical concept used to perform data analysis and sample testing.
• At least 5 years experienced in internal/external auditing and/or Sarbanes-Oxley/internal control assessment work (on manual or automated financial, operational controls), risk management (including on fraud risks).
• Knowledge of data analytics and relevant tool (for scoping, delivering and/or consuming - e.g. in tools such as PowerBI, QlikSense, Tableau, Python) and fluent in working with Microsoft Office 365 suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate etc.).
• Experienced in delivering against timescales and at the expected level of detailed quality.
• Ability to think analytically, creatively, and independently.
• Ability to understand complex business process flows, and rigorously identify, analyse, quantify and solve complex problems.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and conflict management skills with the ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organisation.
• Strong organisational skills, including ability to multi-task, prioritise and be comfortable with a changing environment.
• Experienced in working within complex multinational and/or multi-cultural environments.
• Excellent English communication, report writing, presentation.
Not a perfect fit?
Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.
What's in it for you
- Yearly bonus: 10%
- Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
- Charity days: 5 days/year
- Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
- Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
- Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
- Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan
Who we are
We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.
Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.
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Together we can.