Financial Compliance Specialist

Are you motivated to ensure financial compliance across all areas of a 10bn euro organization? Are you perhaps looking at making a move away from operational work and apply your process knowledge and strong moral compass to a growing and ambitious global business? If so, this could be your opportunity to join our Risk, Controls and Compliance (part of Arla Corporate Finance) as a Financial Compliance Specialist in our Gdansk office.

About the job

As our new Financial Compliance Specialist, you will work closely with and support other members of the team in a variety of tasks and activities to ensure the functioning and improvement of robust risk, controls and compliance systems. You can expect this position will give you a fantastic opportunity to grow, taking on more complex responsibilities as your experience develops.

Specifically, you will:

• Support more senior members of the team in:
  • Driving risk assessments of financial processes across countries with the objective of identifying risks, currently mitigating actions and need for change in our risk response.
  • Ensuring risk awareness and risk mitigation is considered when processes or business models are changed or new are developed.
  • Review of control activities design within specific financial processes across countries
  • Partnering with process owner and other stakeholders in implementing agreed procedures and controls
  • Conducting reviews / internal audits of financial processes
• Be involved in preparation of annual reports to Finance Executive Team on open observations / audit findings
• Drive continuous monitoring and follow up of the performance of minimum controls across countries

Who are you? You have:

• 2-4 years of experience from a similar position in a complex international organisation, or from big-4 consulting / auditing
• Strong knowledge within accounting, auditing, internal controls & financial compliance
• Ability and appetite for influencing overall development of global internal control framework
• Systematic approach to problem solving
• Ability to engage and influence stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills and strong personal impact
• Ability to navigate in a complex organisation
• Willing to travel 5-10 days/year

What do we offer ?

• Flexible working time (start your day of work between 7-9) and home office work possibility
• Relocation allowance
• Financial support of your education
• Medical care & life insurance 
• Additional benefits like gym card, vouchers, travel points or cinema tickets, etc.
• Scandinavian working style & no dress code
• Home kit – monitor, laptop, keyboard, mouse, headsets, webcam
• Referral program for employees
• Employee Assistance Program (legal, psychological, health, financial consulting, etc. )
• Support for your healthy lifestyle (fruit day, facility for sportsmen, sport challenges and activities, Arla active teams / sport groups)
• • Additional holiday depending on length of employment (up to 4 days)

… while in the office you can also use some of below:

• Modern office space with beautiful view and high standard furniture (i.e. adjustable desks)
• Chill-out rooms with X-box, pool table, board games, football table and swing