Financial Controls Specialist

Who do you want to become?

Are you our Future Leader? Are you ready to realize your potential? Are you searching for a real purpose and not "just another job"?

At the Sani/Ikos Group we take hospitality very seriously. As we expand with new Resort openings on an almost annual basis, our core purpose remains the same; encouraging guests to experience the Magic of togetherness as the World's Leading Family & Beach ResortTM.

Whether you're looking for a strong career path in the hospitality industry, to learn new skills that will set you apart from the competition or to develop meaningful relationships and grow personally and professionally, our safe, strong, and sustainable environment might just be the perfect place for you.

Your main responsibility

• Deploy a continuous controls monitoring approach
  , aiming to reduce incidences of error, enhance operational efficiency and automate manual testing procedures.
• Examine transactional data
  and detail transaction analysis against cut-off thresholds to identify unusual activity; timely identify key risks, exceptions, errors and anomalies and detect outliers in financial processes and transactions that may be taking on increased risk or experiencing atypical rates of change.
• Develop a robust data validation capability and criteria
  to ensure integrity, quality, accuracy and completeness; acquire data for routine use by establishing access to data sources, cleansing and validating the data.
• Extract data and combine from a variety of systems across the organization
  , relate it for further cross-platform analysis, remove unreliable transactions, and prepare the data in a standard audit format.
• Automate data feeds
  to reduce validation time, increase the frequency of analysis, and examine, analyze and evaluate trends and patterns in exceptions, errors, anomalies, and outliers within a single financial process, as compared with its own past performance, against other processes/systems operating within the organization or via benchmarking.
• Highlight areas where controls are not performing adequately
  and detect emerging areas of risk and control weaknesses.

Your main qualifications/skills

• Education & Certifications:
  University degree in Business, Finance, Data or Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field (Master's degree considered a plus); professional certifications (ex. CIA, ACCA, CIMA) will be considered an asset.
• Experience:
  3–5 years of experience in data or statistical analysis, within an internal controls or audit environment; experience with ERP systems and process automation tools, multinational business environments, and exposure to APQC or other related process taxonomies and benchmarks will be considered an asset.
• Technical Skills:
  Excellent knowledge of MS Office, particularly Excel; experience on continuous controls monitoring and data mining (processing large datasets using digital tools such as ACL, Python, Power BI, Excel/Power Query or similar tools); familiarity with AI tools and other digital tools will be considered an asset.
• Knowledge of Frameworks:
  Knowledge of Internal Controls standards and procedures (for example COSO Internal Controls Framework, COSO Enterprise Risk Management Framework, SOX internal controls framework) will be considered an asset.
• Competencies:
  Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, ability to process complex and multiple sources data, and a collaborative mindset with the ability to work with multidisciplinary teams.
• Languages:
  Fluency in English, both spoken and written, at a professional corporate level; fluency in Greek and Spanish language will be considered a plus.

What to expect from us

• Becoming a member of an organization that cares about its people, the environment, and the local communities.
• Have room to grow and develop via numerous opportunities for learning, professional development, and career advancement.
• Certainly not "just another job", but a place where people connect for life, and the work that they do means so much to both guests and colleagues alike.
• Job safety and security in a continuously expanding and dynamic organization.
• Competitive remuneration package.

If this looks like the right job for you, send your CV in English and join our growing team