Exciting opportunity to join the Internal Controls team as a Senior Manager · Job Title – Senior Manager - Internal Controls Assurance · Location – BL9 8RR · Working rota – Mon-Fri · Working hours – Full time What You'll Be Doing: As a Senior Manager, you'll be doing the following: Develop and annually refresh the Group's assurance strategy over financial controls. In time, expand the strategy to include material controls. Plan, manage and execute testing in line with the assurance strategy. Manage day-to-day and review the work of two resources – one based in the UK and one based in North America Develop the Group's methodology for testing internal controls. Prepare workpapers in line with department methodology. Track and report deficiencies to Process and Control owners. Identify thematic issues and support communication and reporting of issues to senior and executive management Make recommendations to support the remediation of the deficient controls Analyse control deficiencies to identify impact on financial statements and disclosure in the annual report What We're Looking For: Accounting qualification – ACA/ACCA or equivalent Audit experience, preferably controls-testing focus – minimum 7 years post qualification experience Exposure to an effective understanding of internal controls over financial reporting and controls testing. Be a strong communicator and possess an ability to develop trusting and credible relationships at all levels of the business and across various teams Strong Excel skills An understanding of IT systems and operation will be helpful The Company: The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world. We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity. To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day. We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits: Incremental Holiday Allowance Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme Discounted Gym membership Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications Interested? If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button . Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager. Thank you again for your time. LI-HC1