Head of Risk & Internal Audit
- Recruiter
- Trainline
- Location
- London, Greater London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 16 May 2021
- Closes
- 17 May 2021
- Ref
- 4Buay5FoGLG6
- Job role
- Compliance/risk, Finance director, Internal audit
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
- Experience level
- Director
Trainline is an innovative, tech business with a mission to bring together the world's rail, coach and other travel services into one simple experience. We aim to make travel easier and more accessible, encouraging people to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices. We're hugely proud to be the world's leading independent rail and coach travel platform and rank among the highest-rated travel and ticketing apps globally. Today, we offer our customers travel to thousands of destinations in and across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. That's more than £3.7 billion in ticket sales annually, and over 90 million visits to our apps and websites each month. In another major milestone, Trainline listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2019 and is now part of the FTSE 250.
Our culture is central to our success.We're driven to sustain our phenomenal growth from recent years, and this means we're always working closely and collaboratively to turn our ideas into reality. It's this sense of pace, innovating and improving pretty much everything we do, that makes Trainline so exciting and unique - we truly believe our work has a genuine impact and will change travel for the better.
The Team
The Finance team has been central to supporting the business through this continued growth. Headed up by Shaun McCabe (a proven Finance leader in Digital & Technology), the team is laser focused on thinking insight not simply numbers, adding value across the business and acting as a true commercial partner at every step. To support our ambitious commercial goals, we're expanding our world-class Finance team to drive the next stage of our development.
The Role
Reporting to the Group Finance Director, you'll be responsible for tracking, assessing and reporting the key risks to our business, and will build out our new, co-source Internal Audit function to help address and track these risks. In this newly created role, you'll hold ultimate responsibility for developing and executing a risk-based internal audit plan as our business expands at rapid pace.
We're at a very exciting time in our evolution. As a recently listed business in a high growth sector, you'll help professionalise and formalise our processes for tracking and mitigating risk in establishing this new team. We want someone who has proven experience in maturing a control environment, and can bring new and fresh ideas to how we do things.
Working closely with our Executive leadership team, Board and Audit Committee, you'll help inform and focus them on mitigating the most significant risks to our business. As such, you'll be able to present a clear and concise view of our risks and how we plan to target them through our internal audit plan. In addition, you'll need to be able to develop strong cross functional relationships, to be able to effectively lead the risk assessment process and help recommend appropriate mitigation.
Other responsibilities include:
- Leading the new Internal Audit Function tracking, grading and reporting the Group's risk register
- Developing the relationship and parameters with co-source provider
- Performing initial scoping and risk assessment, and then formulating and maintaining the internal audit plan linking this back to risk register
- Compiling all reporting on risk for the Board and Audit Committee
- Liaising across the business to be involved in incoming risk assessments and audits to ensure they run smoothly
- Communicating recommendations for process and control changes to the Board and Audit Committee
This is a truly career defining role for someone passionate about building a new Internal Audit function that will be critical to our business and reach far beyond Finance. There'll also be an opportunity to travel to our operations in Edinburgh and Paris assessing and building our risk framework as you play your part in disrupting and defining a product that is changing the way we travel and inspiring millions people all over the world to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices every day.
The right candidate will be/have...
- A creative big thinker with a small ego to help achieve our ambitious plans
- Likely to be an ACA/ICAS/ACCA qualified accountant with practice-based training and have performing a broad and leading role in an industry internal audit function
- A track record in working in an immature Audit and Risk function and building a function out from scratch whilst working autonomously
- An expert in developing internal audit procedures and delivering internal audit cycles against plan
- Proven experience at Board and Audit Committee level, as well as being able to work and influence functions outside of Finance
- Experience from a Technology, Digital or high growth business would be a bonus as would spoken French skills!
What we offer:
- 25 days holiday +2 extra days at Christmas
- Free private medical and dental insurance for you and your family (you just pay the tax on what you choose!)
- Life assurance & income protection
- Good pension scheme
- Season Ticket loan
- Charity leave
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Free breakfast everyday and fruit galore!
- Yoga Mondays
- Salsa classes
- Board Game nights
....and many more
We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it's the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.
Our culture is central to our success.We're driven to sustain our phenomenal growth from recent years, and this means we're always working closely and collaboratively to turn our ideas into reality. It's this sense of pace, innovating and improving pretty much everything we do, that makes Trainline so exciting and unique - we truly believe our work has a genuine impact and will change travel for the better.
The Team
The Finance team has been central to supporting the business through this continued growth. Headed up by Shaun McCabe (a proven Finance leader in Digital & Technology), the team is laser focused on thinking insight not simply numbers, adding value across the business and acting as a true commercial partner at every step. To support our ambitious commercial goals, we're expanding our world-class Finance team to drive the next stage of our development.
The Role
Reporting to the Group Finance Director, you'll be responsible for tracking, assessing and reporting the key risks to our business, and will build out our new, co-source Internal Audit function to help address and track these risks. In this newly created role, you'll hold ultimate responsibility for developing and executing a risk-based internal audit plan as our business expands at rapid pace.
We're at a very exciting time in our evolution. As a recently listed business in a high growth sector, you'll help professionalise and formalise our processes for tracking and mitigating risk in establishing this new team. We want someone who has proven experience in maturing a control environment, and can bring new and fresh ideas to how we do things.
Working closely with our Executive leadership team, Board and Audit Committee, you'll help inform and focus them on mitigating the most significant risks to our business. As such, you'll be able to present a clear and concise view of our risks and how we plan to target them through our internal audit plan. In addition, you'll need to be able to develop strong cross functional relationships, to be able to effectively lead the risk assessment process and help recommend appropriate mitigation.
Other responsibilities include:
- Leading the new Internal Audit Function tracking, grading and reporting the Group's risk register
- Developing the relationship and parameters with co-source provider
- Performing initial scoping and risk assessment, and then formulating and maintaining the internal audit plan linking this back to risk register
- Compiling all reporting on risk for the Board and Audit Committee
- Liaising across the business to be involved in incoming risk assessments and audits to ensure they run smoothly
- Communicating recommendations for process and control changes to the Board and Audit Committee
This is a truly career defining role for someone passionate about building a new Internal Audit function that will be critical to our business and reach far beyond Finance. There'll also be an opportunity to travel to our operations in Edinburgh and Paris assessing and building our risk framework as you play your part in disrupting and defining a product that is changing the way we travel and inspiring millions people all over the world to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices every day.
The right candidate will be/have...
- A creative big thinker with a small ego to help achieve our ambitious plans
- Likely to be an ACA/ICAS/ACCA qualified accountant with practice-based training and have performing a broad and leading role in an industry internal audit function
- A track record in working in an immature Audit and Risk function and building a function out from scratch whilst working autonomously
- An expert in developing internal audit procedures and delivering internal audit cycles against plan
- Proven experience at Board and Audit Committee level, as well as being able to work and influence functions outside of Finance
- Experience from a Technology, Digital or high growth business would be a bonus as would spoken French skills!
What we offer:
- 25 days holiday +2 extra days at Christmas
- Free private medical and dental insurance for you and your family (you just pay the tax on what you choose!)
- Life assurance & income protection
- Good pension scheme
- Season Ticket loan
- Charity leave
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Free breakfast everyday and fruit galore!
- Yoga Mondays
- Salsa classes
- Board Game nights
....and many more
We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it's the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.
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