Risk and Controls Specialist

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience in risk management, governance, controls, and/or audits.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with management and financial systems/processes and the implications on compliance and controls.
• Experience working across Europe or multiple jurisdictions.
• Ability to effectively maintain and manage stakeholder relationships cross-culturally.
• Ability to work strategically with excellent commercial acumen delivered in international markets.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and cross-regionally with executives and present and communicate to audiences at all levels.

About the job

Our team handles the core accounting roles at Google. As a Risk and Controls Specialist, you will be a key contributor in managing the different risks within a high-energy growth environment. Working with global and other regional teams, you will identify process improvement areas and provide recommendations to strengthen internal controls across multiple jurisdictions and multiple stakeholders. You'll drive cross-functional collaboration to support both finance as well as business-led initiatives and implement and continually look to improve existing processes. In addition, you will continuously look for ways to help our team get better at what we do in the most efficient way possible.

In this role, you may be required to work late evenings and early mornings in order to work with cross-border teams and international stakeholders.

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

• Manage the robustness of internal financial controls in region while working with process owners to track and report on remediation plans and manage responses to external findings (e.g., from internal and external audit).
• Develop and execute a program of internal controls reviews across the region and manage the 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 to APAC.
• Partner with cross-regional counterparts and Controllership teams across the region to define, establish, and implement relevant processes and controls.

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