Senior Manager, Global HAFS Compliance & Process Integration

Essential Criteria

• Deep understanding of accounting, SOX, financial and operational controls, with the ability to connect controls to end-to-end business processes.

• Demonstrated ability to lead risk-based assurance, control testing, issue evaluation and remediation monitoring.

• Strong finance process knowledge and the ability to identify opportunities for standardisation, automation, efficiency and improved governance.

• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to interpret large or complex data sets and focus work on higher-risk activity.

• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional programmes in a matrix organisation with geographically dispersed stakeholders.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to produce clear executive reporting and influence stakeholders at all levels.

• Strong project and change-management capability, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver through others.

• Demonstrated people leadership, coaching and capability-building skills.

• High standards of integrity, professional judgement, confidentiality, accuracy and accountability.

• Ability to work independently, remain adaptable under time constraints, and travel when business needs require.

Preferred Criteria

• Experience in a global hospitality, shared-service or multi-entity finance environment.

• Strong knowledge of hotel operations and shared service model

• Knowledge of record-to-report processes, balance sheet governance, and hotel operations

• Experience designing SOX-compliant operating models, process flows, governance frameworks and standard operating procedures.

• Experience with finance transformation, automation, artificial intelligence or digital process improvement.

• Working knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP and US GAAP.

• Experience using Oracle, BlackLine or comparable enterprise finance and reconciliation systems.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.

• Specific Experience: Ten years of accounting, audit, compliance, controls or business transformation experience, including experience in a global or matrix environment.

• Technical Experience: Strong understanding of SOX, SOC1, internal controls, financial processes and risk-based assurance.

• Additional Requirements: Role based in Watford or Glasgow under the applicable hybrid-working arrangements. International and UK travel may be required based on business needs.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

• Professional accounting or audit qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA, CIA or equivalent.

• Internal or external audit experience, including risk assessment, audit scoping, fieldwork and executive reporting.

• Experience leading global finance transformation or compliance programmes across multiple jurisdictions.

Planning and Risk Assessment

• Develop a risk-based compliance plan aligned to business priorities, financial reporting risks and changes in systems or processes.

• Analyse data across financial systems to identify trends, exceptions and higher-risk activities requiring focused assurance work.

• Partner with stakeholders to define testing scope, expected outcomes, resource needs and delivery milestones.

• Assess proposed process, technology and organisational changes for implications to controls, governance and compliance.

Compliance Assurance and Control Improvement

• Design assurance testing of operational controls across global HAFS and shared-service activities.

• Evaluate control design and operating effectiveness, clearly document conclusions, and recommend practical remediation that mitigates risk and reduces the potential for fraud or financial reporting error.

• Monitor remediation actions, challenge overdue or insufficient responses, and escalate significant or recurring issues appropriately.

• Act as an escalation point for control issues and coordinate cross-functional resolution, including targeted training where required.

Process Integration and Transformation

• Lead the design, documentation and implementation of standardised global processes, control frameworks and standard operating procedures.

• Connect controls to end-to-end processes to identify gaps, duplication, manual effort and opportunities for automation or simplification.

• Support finance transformation, system implementation and transition initiatives to embed compliant and sustainable processes.

• Apply experience across record-to-report, balance sheet governance, capital and lease accounting, and related finance processes to strengthen integration and consistency.

Stakeholder Management, Reporting and Training

• Build effective partnerships with HAFS leadership, corporate finance, hotel operations, Operations Finance, and other key stakeholders.

• Prepare concise, executive-ready presentations and reports that communicate testing outcomes, root causes, key insights, remediation status and programme progress.

• Design and deliver training and change-management activity that builds capability and reinforces compliance expectations and process standards.

• Communicate effectively with internal and external auditors and support relevant audit activities and statutory requirements.

People Leadership and Team Development

• Lead, coach and develop Compliance Team Members, setting clear priorities and quality expectations.

• Build team capability through mentoring, technical guidance, training and sharing of best practices across regions.

• Promote a culture of integrity, collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement and customer focus.

Direct Reports

Compliance Team Members as assigned.

Essential Criteria

• Deep understanding of accounting, SOX, financial and operational controls, with the ability to connect controls to end-to-end business processes.

• Demonstrated ability to lead risk-based assurance, control testing, issue evaluation and remediation monitoring.

• Strong finance process knowledge and the ability to identify opportunities for standardisation, automation, efficiency and improved governance.

• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to interpret large or complex data sets and focus work on higher-risk activity.

• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional programmes in a matrix organisation with geographically dispersed stakeholders.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to produce clear executive reporting and influence stakeholders at all levels.

• Strong project and change-management capability, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver through others.

• Demonstrated people leadership, coaching and capability-building skills.

• High standards of integrity, professional judgement, confidentiality, accuracy and accountability.

• Ability to work independently, remain adaptable under time constraints, and travel when business needs require.

Preferred Criteria

• Experience in a global hospitality, shared-service or multi-entity finance environment.

• Strong knowledge of hotel operations and shared service model

• Knowledge of record-to-report processes, balance sheet governance, and hotel operations

• Experience designing SOX-compliant operating models, process flows, governance frameworks and standard operating procedures.

• Experience with finance transformation, automation, artificial intelligence or digital process improvement.

• Working knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP and US GAAP.

• Experience using Oracle, BlackLine or comparable enterprise finance and reconciliation systems.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.

• Specific Experience: Ten years of accounting, audit, compliance, controls or business transformation experience, including experience in a global or matrix environment.

• Technical Experience: Strong understanding of SOX, SOC1, internal controls, financial processes and risk-based assurance.

• Additional Requirements: Role based in Watford or Glasgow under the applicable hybrid-working arrangements. International and UK travel may be required based on business needs.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

• Professional accounting or audit qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA, CIA or equivalent.

• Internal or external audit experience, including risk assessment, audit scoping, fieldwork and executive reporting.

• Experience leading global finance transformation or compliance programmes across multiple jurisdictions.