Finance Governance (1 year contract)

Prudential's purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people's career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

To administer finance policies and procedures as well as to assist in finance control function in the area of expense and project cost management.

Job Description:

• To administer finance policies and procedures on expense management,
• To manage the IT platform for expenditure approval workflow
• To review, process and manage the expenditure requests, including project budget requests and follow up on post implementation reviews.
• To perform/provide ad hoc expense analysis for the purpose of budget control, procedure review, and/or reporting.
• To monitor and track project spend/budget and escalate any issue in a timely manner
• To assist in general expense budget control (including business planning where appropriate) and expense reporting functions.
• To perform periodic QA reviews
• To assist in tracking and follow up on governance issues throughout the Division.
• To assist and support activities during period of parallel run of systems.
• Provide support on ad hoc tasks assigned under Finance Governance.

Who we are looking for:

Competencies & Personal Traits

• Accounting knowledge or qualification
• Analytical and logical
• Detailed and meticulous
• This role is required to manage internal stakeholders as well as various control/audit functions. The candidate should have strong communication skills, both written and spoken
• Self-driven

Working Experience

• About 8 to 10 years permanent working experience, preferably in a regulated industry
• Knowledge and/or experience in life insurance, financial accounting and/or SOX

Professional Qualifications

• ACCA / Degree in Finance/Accounting

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.