Manager- Global Ethics & Independence (RR000069)

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BDO is an international network of independent public accounting, tax, and advisory firms ('the BDO network'), which perform professional services under the name of BDO (‘the BDO Member Firms’). This global organization provides advisory services in 167 countries, with around 88,000 people working out of 1,800 offices worldwide. The BDO Global Office supplies services to these BDO firms worldwide.

The Ethics & Independence (E&I) department is part of the wider Risk & Compliance (R&C) department. The primary role of the E&I department is setting standards, policies, processes, and guidance on ethics and independence matters across the organization and monitoring BDO firms' compliance to those policies and procedures.

Overall objective of the position:
Reporting to the Director of Global Ethics & Independence (E&I), the Manager is responsible for the management of the day-to-day activities of the compliance monitoring team by overseeing and leading monitoring activities with regards to BDO Firms compliance with Global Ethics & Independence policies and procedures; use of Global independence technology including Quality control of PIE COI checks and providing Corporate Tree information as requested. 

Key Responsibilities in order of importance:
•	Gain a robust knowledge of BDO's independence technical manual and independence tools to provide support to the Global Independence team and to BDO firms.
•	Responsible for the management and creation of processes for the day to day operations of the department.
        The main activities include:
        	Quality control on Conflict of Interest Requests
        	Responding to Corporate Tree (Corporate Group structure) requests from BDO Firms.
        	Monitoring BDO firms’ compliance with Ethics & Independence policies and procedures
        	Supporting BDO firms with clients’ ingestion in Global Entity Management System (EMS)
        	Monitoring BDO firms’ completion of Accreditation NextGen process and related reporting
        	Providing support to BDO firms' requests on shared mailbox or ServiceNow (BDO incident and request ticketing system)
•	Responsible for Reporting on usage of the COI tools and compliance of BDO Firms to Global Independence policies and procedures to:
        	BDO Global Management
        	Regional CEOs
        	Firms
        	Other persons or group as may be required
•	Management of global independence software and external vendor products including staying current and researching potential new/revisions to tools
•	Participate in improvement and development of global independence technology tools 
•	Planning, developing and maintaining policies and procedures that enable and encourage the optimum performance of the team and other resources within the department
•	Responsible for the management of Firm Expansion Independence Due Diligence processes and reporting to Director 
•	Work with Senior Management in recruitment 
•	Work closely with other members of the E&I team and assist other members of the team as and when required
•	Other duties as required

Skills:
•	Proactivity, show initiative and able to anticipate project needs
•	Advanced knowledge of MS Office, strong Excel knowledge
•	Experience of working with online tools
•	Excellent level of English (the working language of the Global Office), and strong written and spoken communications skills
•	Evidence of the ability to practice a high level of confidentiality
•	Strong attention to details and number accuracy 
•	Ability to prioritise workloads and flexibility to manage multiple team members and deadlines
•	Ability to work autonomously and to build effective working relationships with the E&I team, other BDO Global Department and BDO network. 
•	Knowledge of audit and accounting compliance is a plus 

Minimum degree and experience:
•	Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent experience
•	Minimum 5 years of experience in business support or project coordination role with at least 2 years of management experience in a team-oriented workplace
•	Minimum 2 years experience in External Audit in a semi senior or audit senior level 
•	Experience in compliance is preferred
•	Experience with managing over 10 people is preferred