Financial Control Solutions Specialist

SUMMARY:
Role Purpose:
Lead the design, operationalization, and execution of financial control solutions and data quality frameworks. Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, regulatory standards, and stakeholder needs. Own product delivery streams while monitoring and improving financial data integrity across systems and processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Information Systems.
• 3–5 years of experience in financial controls, systems accounting, reconciliation, or product ownership roles.
• Hands on experience with ERP implementations and structured delivery methodologies.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills, with the ability to contextualize complex technical and financial requirements.
• Solid understanding of financial services risk (FSR) principles and control frameworks (e.g. COSO).
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Finance modules will be advantageous, including AHCS, AFCS, FCCS, FDI, and specifically the Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS).

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Control Design & Execution:

• Design and implement financial control architecture and operating models, including governance and data quality frameworks.
• Own product streams such as reconciliation register development, procurement reconciliation analysis, and adapter data requirements.
• Lead control setup and testing across ERP phases (SIT, UAT, parallel run), ensuring traceability, auditability, and compliance.
• Provide technical guidance on reconciliation logic, control matrices, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Support the implementation and optimisation of automated reconciliation solutions, with a focus on scalable and sustainable control design.
• Data Quality Management
• Establish and monitor key data quality metrics and controls to identify anomalies across financial data sets.
• Conduct root cause analysis of data quality issues and drive sustainable resolution.
• Design and implement solutions to automate data quality monitoring and exception management processes.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of data quality processes, issues, controls, and resolutions.
• Liaise with internal and external auditors to demonstrate compliance with financial data quality and control standards.
• Monitor and report on data quality and control performance to senior leadership.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
• Drive structured facilitation sessions, workshops, and feedback loops with business, finance, IT, and risk stakeholders.
• Collaborate cross functionally to ensure financial controls and data quality are embedded throughout the end to end data lifecycle.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement
• Promote a culture of innovation by identifying and driving continuous improvements in financial control, reconciliation, and data quality processes

• Proficiency in ERP platforms and end to end reconciliation processes.
• Strong understanding of financial control and risk frameworks (e.g. COSO).
• Advantageous: Hands on exposure to Oracle ARCS configuration, reconciliation rules, matching logic, and exception management.
• Beneficial: SQL, Python, Excel, and data visualisation tools.