WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading Business Process Management (BPM) company. We combine our deep industry knowledge with technology and analytics expertise to co-create innovative, digital-led transformational solutions with clients across 10 industries. We enable businesses in Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics, Healthcare, and Utilities to re-imagine their digital future and transform their outcomes with operational excellence.We deliver an entire spectrum of BPM services in finance and accounting, procurement, customer interaction services and human resources leveraging collaborative models that are tailored to address the unique business challenges of each client. We co-create and execute the future vision of 400+ clients with the help of our 44,000+ employees.

Title: Controls Analyst Location: Chennai, Full-time

Job Description

\Duties and Responsibilities:

Risk-Related Activities:•

Preparing a 'Risk Control Self Assessment' (RCSA) checklist for various stakeholders across the offshore finance team, including all known events and issues related to the process.

• Ensuring stakeholders in the offshore finance team update their monthly RCSA accurately and on time

• Analysis and challenge of the RCSA results, with escalation to the onshore FCO team as required.

• Support the offshore finance teams to provide accurate and timely updates to events and issue records

• Support the onshore FCO team with production of regular and ad hoc reporting from Shield

• Support production of regular and ad hoc reporting packs, MI dashboards, MI extracts, and metrics for key finance forums and committees

• Support the offshore finance teams to prepare for the abrdn/WNS quarterly JRCC meetings, recording action items, and following up and tracking for closure.Control-Related Activities:

• Evaluating the effectiveness of internal control documentation within Shield and suggesting improvements for stakeholders.

• Support the offshore finance teams to provide accurate and timely updates to audit recommendations logged in Shield, monitoring timelines and escalating where issues are approaching overdue.

• Support the offshore finance teams with implementation of controls to required standard and within timelines.

• Collating data from various stakeholders to support assessment of risk and control maps by the FCO.

• Liaising with onshore FCO team to support auditors in the coordinate of walkthroughs, ad hoc process and control discussions, issues, and audit observations

.• Support the onshore FCO team with production of regular and ad hoc reporting on controls

• Support the onshore FCO team as Controls SME within the offshore finance team to support local colleagues with controls activities and knowledge.

• Support the onshore FCO team to perform controls reviews for key processes including those performed by WNS, performing a gap analysis of the control environment, and working with business functions to develop and implement remediating controls.

• Support the onshore FCO team to complete reviews of controls to ensure the control is documented correctly, mitigates the associated risks, and meets the abrdn controls methodology

.Expected Skill Sets:

1. Risk and control background essential (+5 years) either via external audit, internal audit, operational risk, or business risk experience, ideally within a Financial Services and SOX company.

2. Knowledge of risk and control frameworks best practices, beneficial to have some project or implementation phase experience.

3. Strong communication and personal skills via written reporting and ability to message risk and control concepts via slide presentation, as well as via video call with key stakeholders

4. Ability to confidently use MS Excel, Word and Power Point and other tool

1. Essential - Qualified Chartered Accountant2. Beneficial – other Risk or Control Qualifications

Should be ok to work in UK shift 1pm -10.30pm