Financial Controls Manager

Overview

The Financial Controls Team is headquartered in Woking , the Nomad Foods Head Office. The team support Group functions, Shared Finance Centre (Hammersmith) and markets which are UK and other European countries.

 

The Team manages several aspects of the Financial Controls Framework, supporting global process owners to understand and manage risk, helping control owners to comply with Financial Controls, and working with testing teams (both internal and external) to ensure smooth audits.

 

This role will have specific responsibility for supporting the Head of Internal Controls to embed and sustain the Financial Controls Framework across Nomad operations. Our controls frameworks are going through an exciting period of redesign in 2026, which includes a new IT controls framework, additional IT application coverage and more extensive use of the controls tool Workiva. This role will be the group expert and lead on the implementation, communication, training, monitoring and improvement of:

• group/central (group RACM and Entity Level) including Acquisition controls;
• Workiva; and
• cash management (bank account and related areas) process controls.

The role also provides expertise/support to IT controls and advocates for/supports the embedding all financial controls within our frameworks.

Responsibilities

The role holder will be expected to:

• Be the group expert and lead on the group/central controls (group RACM and Entity Level Controls):
  • partner the group consolidation Global Process Owner
  • design and maintain the Entity Level and Acquisition Controls, including at least an annual refresh and handholding related control owners
  • fully understanding the risks, as well as controls / mitigation activities
  • communicate and educate stakeholders on risks, controls and testing
  • participate in relevant committees / regular meetings to keep abreast of related organisation and operational changes 

• Support the operation of group/central (group RACM and Entity Level) including Acquisition controls:
  • work with the control owners to ensure they understand what is expected of them with respect to controls
  • proactive and pre-emptive focus on group acquisitions to ensure controls are planned and executed without deficiencies
  • proactive and pre-emptive focus on ‘significant unusual transaction’ controls due to infrequent performance
  • ensure assurance activities are scheduled and delivered to plan
  • handhold non-Finance control owners so that they are confident in their control activities
• Be the group expert and lead on the cash management process controls:
  • partner the cash management Global Process Owner in financial control activities such as deficiency remediation
  • fully understanding the risks, as well as controls / mitigation activities
  • clearly communicate control activities in an easy to understand way to relevant Nomad employees
  • participate in relevant committees / regular meetings to keep abreast of related operational changes
  • update the framework for any changes in operations
• Be the group expert and lead on use of Workiva to support controls performance:
  • use external radar and networking to identify enhancement opportunities
  • maintain the system
  • support users
  • deploy the tool wherever it is advantageous for Nomad to do so, improve dashboarding / visibility to support controls culture

• Support the Head of IT Governance on the maintenance and implementation of IT controls, including:
  • General Controls
  • Application Controls
  • User Access

• Support the Head of Financial Controls with other ad-hoc and planned tasks such as:
  • create and deliver general controls training
  • assist in driving a standardised and consistent approach to controls
  • drive cultural shift and behaviours regarding controls and accountabilities
  • coordinate and support internal and external audit activities
  • monitor the progress of audit finding remediation
  • identify opportunities to standardize, simplify and improve processes to drive balanced risk management

Qualifications

Essential

• Working within Internal Audit, Internal Controls or specific SOX experience
• Accounting or controls qualification
• University degree or equivalent
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to act in a professional manner with the skills to influence others
• Excellent communication skills and able to deliver information orally and written
• An ability to gather, analyse and evaluate facts
• Pays attention to detail and sees things through to completion
• Meets deadlines
• Have an enquiring and questioning approach to work

Desirable

• FMCG/ foods
• Accounting qualification
• Big 4 firm
• Be a self-starter who manages their own time and seeks to add value to the role
• Flexible to develop and learn