Job description
Head of Financial Controls & Compliance - Corporate
This is your opportunity to become a vital part of the UK's largest private healthcare provider, specialists in complex care.
Job Title: Head of Financial Controls and Compliance
Location: Central London / Hybrid
Employer: HCA Healthcare UK
Team: Corporate Finance
Salary Range: Competitive with a range of exceptional Benefits
Shifts/Pattern or work: 37.5 per week - Office Hours / Hybrid Woking
Employment package extras: We will look after you with a very attractive salary, private healthcare insurance for you and your family, contributory pension scheme and a vast range of additional rewards. Being part of a large, multisite, and established healthcare group, we can offer career progression, development and support to grow internally, in addition to funded courses.
We have an exceptional opportunity for you as our Head of Financial Controls and Compliance
Reporting into the Director of Financial Compliance, you will lead the Financial Controls and Compliance department as part of the Corporate Finance team based in London.
You will need to be an experienced qualified accountant with proven leadership skill and ideally a background within audit.
This is a key role working with the finance teams across the UK Division to support the compliance of SOX and Key financial controls.
The successful candidate will manage a team of Financial Controls & Compliance Advisor(s), working closely with senior management to support compliance in other areas. An ability to communicate clearly with and manage all stakeholders at all levels is therefore essential.
You will have the Opportunity to:
- Have oversight of controls framework compliance, including maintenance of all financial process and controls documentation.
- Lead testing programmes for local compliance reviews, including testing the operating effectiveness across all key processes with new acquisitions and remediation of controls failures, to bring them in line with the HCA Controls Matrix.
- Engage with process owners to address financial risks and internal controls requirements
- Collaborate with management and finance process owners to drive efficiency and process consistency across the division.
- Report on financial compliance matters to the Quarterly Compliance Committee.
- Be responsible for the smooth running of the External and Internal Audits.
- Act as a key advisor for any projects that may arise
Ideally, we are looking for someone who has;
- Experience in integration of acquired companies (change management)
- Experience of internal control frameworks
- Highest standards of accuracy and precision; highly organised Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Good team player
- Self-motivation, with the ability to work on own initiative
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work well with others in a diplomatic and professional manner
- The ability to multi task under tight deadline
- An audit background is preferable but not essential
Additional Information:
HCA Healthcare UK is the country's largest provider of privately funded care with 800,000 patient interactions every year. From complex and urgent care, to primary care, outpatient and day-case treatment, we provide exceptional care across our network of facilities and key NHS partnerships in London and Manchester.
We're at the forefront of ground-breaking medicine and our clinical standards are a given, but it's the individual care we to each patient give that means 99% of them recommend HCA UK. Our facilities include The Harley Street Clinic, The Lister Hospital, London Bridge Hospital, The Portland Hospital, The Princess Grace Hospital and The Wellington Hospital. We also run HCA Laboratories and are growing via our expanding joint ventures divisions, including partnering with the NHS.
Our primary purpose is to provide exceptional care delivered with compassion and kindness, using state-of-the-art technology operated by expert, dedicated teams.
If you would like to join HCA Healthcare UK as a Head of Financial Controls and Compliance, and be part of an organisation shaping a healthier tomorrow, we invite you to apply. Our application process is quick and easy, completing a 2-minute questionnaire and upload a cv.
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