Internal Control & Compliance Officer - BJSS : Job Details

We’re an award-winning innovative tech consultancy - a team of creative problem solvers. Since 1993 we’ve been finding better, more sustainable ways to solve complex technology problems for some of the world’s leading organisations and delivered solutions that millions of people use every day.

In the last 30 years we won several awards, including a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for our Enterprise Agile delivery approach.

Operating from 26 locations across the world, we bring together teams of creative experts with diverse backgrounds and experiences, who enjoy working and learning in our collaborative and open culture and are committed to world-class delivery.

We want to continue to grow our team with people just like you!

BJSS is looking to add an Internal Control & Compliance Officer to the Finance function to ensure compliance with the regulations of CFA 2017, SAO, IR35 and OEPI as well as ensuring internal controls are fit to meet wider compliance with relevant tax legislation and are scalable in line with anticipated business growth.

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for someone who is looking to work in a fast-paced technology consultancy environment. You will be part of an established Finance Team with extensive internal stakeholder engagement.

Key responsibilities

Review all BJSS processes within both BJSS finance team (AP, AR, financial accounting function) and other relevant operational functions (e.g., Commercial ops regarding supplier and customer onboarding; Resourcing function with regard to IR35 compliance) with a view to ensuring compliance with the relevant legislation.

• Document and review tax accounting processes including the establishment of suitable internal controls to mitigate non-compliance and ensure processes are scalable to business growth
• Full controls review, documentation and control weakness mitigation followed by regular IC walk through tests
• Financial management and reporting procedures - documentation of accounting policy procedures, formalisation of appropriate review and establishment of a robust internal control environment

The ideal candidate will have a successful background in internal control and compliance with experience of implementing robust and workable IC procedures.

You will be naturally motivated and have the ability to manage your own workload. It is imperative that you are deadline focussed and willing to put in the effort required to ensure deadlines are always met. Someone with great interpersonal skills, be able to work well within the team, and to communicate effectively with non-finance internal stakeholders.

You will be a fully qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA).

• Flexible benefits allowance - you choose how to spend your allowance (additional pension contributions, healthcare, dental and more)
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan - we partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support, and other
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working - Our roles are not fully remote as we take pride in the tight knit communities we have created at our local offices. But we offer plenty of flexibility and you can split your time between the office, client site and WFH
• Discounts - we have preferred rates from dozens of retail, lifestyle, and utility brands
• An industry-leading referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
• Flexible holiday buy/sell option
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Training opportunities and incentives - we support professional certifications across engineering and non-engineering roles, including unlimited access to O’Reilly
• Giving back - the ability to get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from diverse backgrounds into tech
• You will become part of a squad with people from different areas within the business who will help you grow at BJSS
• We have a busy social calendar that you can choose to join- quarterly town halls/squad nights out/weekends away with families included/office get togethers
• GymFlex gym membership programme