Controls Analyst

Summary

NEP Group is a provider of technology solutions and production services for live events, entertainment, sports, and media. The Revenue Controls Analyst will maintain the control framework, test control design and operating effectiveness—including AI-enabled controls—and track exceptions through effective remediation. The role also supports governance reporting, control handovers, and internal control initiatives across business units and time zones.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the control register, including control owners, operating procedures and required evidence
• Design and execute testing programmes covering control design effectiveness and operating effectiveness
• Test AI-enabled controls, including input completeness, rule changes, output review and audit trails
• Sample and assess overrides where quotes, invoices or commitments were released despite a control exception
• Track exceptions through resolution, report ageing items and identify root causes
• Confirm remediation is implemented and operating effectively, rather than simply being promised
• Support control handovers, governance reporting and the wider internal control agenda

Skills

• Professional qualification or part-qualification in audit, accounting or internal control—such as ACA, ACCA, CIA, CIMA or equivalent experience
• Three to five years' experience in internal audit, internal control, risk or control testing within a complex organization
• Practical experience testing both control design and operating effectiveness and documenting results to a standard suitable for external review
• Working knowledge of process-level financial controls, ideally across order-to-cash activities
• Strong data skills, including extracting, sampling, reconciling and interrogating system reports; advanced Excel skills are required
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to explain findings, root causes and recommended improvements to non-technical audiences
• Ability to work independently across multiple business units and time zones while constructively challenging control owners and following remediation through to completion
• Experience testing automated, system-based or IT general controls
• Exposure to continuous control monitoring, analytics-driven controls or AI-enabled processes
• Experience working in a multi-entity, multi-currency international organization
• Familiarity with order-to-cash processes in a project- or job-based business, such as media, broadcast, engineering or construction
• Experience with SOX or an equivalent formal control framework

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Professional qualification or part-qualification in audit, accounting or internal control—such as ACA, ACCA, CIA, CIMA or equivalent experience
• Three to five years' experience in internal audit, internal control, risk or control testing within a complex organization
• Practical experience testing both control design and operating effectiveness and documenting results to a standard suitable for external review
• Working knowledge of process-level financial controls, ideally across order-to-cash activities
• Strong data skills, including extracting, sampling, reconciling and interrogating system reports; advanced Excel skills are required
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to explain findings, root causes and recommended improvements to non-technical audiences
• Ability to work independently across multiple business units and time zones while constructively challenging control owners and following remediation through to completion

Nice to Haves

• Experience testing automated, system-based or IT general controls
• Exposure to continuous control monitoring, analytics-driven controls or AI-enabled processes
• Experience working in a multi-entity, multi-currency international organization
• Familiarity with order-to-cash processes in a project- or job-based business, such as media, broadcast, engineering or construction
• Experience with SOX or an equivalent formal control framework