ICFR Transformation & Controls Lead

Location: Hybrid role based in the London or Nottingham office, with 40% office attendance.

Company

hirify.global is a global data and technology company serving markets including financial services, healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, and insurance.

What you will do

• Support the design, implementation, and embedding of hirify.global's global ICFR framework toward a leading-practice SOX-aligned standard.
• Partner with Finance Control Towers, IT Controls, Governance, and business stakeholders to standardise control execution across global processes.
• Lead control transformation programmes that simplify controls, remove duplication, and improve control effectiveness.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, analytics, control monitoring, and best-practice methodologies.
• Translate programme outcomes into scalable business-as-usual frameworks, standards, tools, and governance routines.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Financial Controls, SOX, ICFR, Internal Audit, Risk, or a related controls environment.
• Understanding of control frameworks, control design, and operating effectiveness, with experience embedding sustainable control environments.
• Experience working with Finance Control Towers, Shared Service Centres, or global process ownership structures.
• Ability to identify opportunities for standardisation, simplification, and control optimisation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across complex global organisations.
• Qualified or qualified-by-experience Accountant, such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.

Nice to have

• Experience with SOX readiness, SOX compliance programmes, or large-scale ICFR transformation initiatives.
• Knowledge of control rationalisation, control automation, and continuous controls monitoring.
• Experience with GRC platforms, workflow technologies, process mining, analytics platforms, or automation solutions.
• Experience developing control tower operating models, governance frameworks, or global controls standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with 40% office-based work.
• Pension, Bupa healthcare, Sharesave Scheme, and discretionary bonus.
• 25 days of annual leave, 8 bank holidays, and 3 volunteering days, with the option to purchase additional leave.
• Inclusive, purpose-driven culture with a focus on employee development and wellbeing.
• Opportunity to work on a high-profile global transformation programme with senior stakeholders across Finance, Technology, Risk, and Controls.