Jack Lambden Email & Phone Number

Tadley, Gb

Aldermaston, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing the defence contractor’s Internal Control environment, including compliance with the MOD's Internal Control Assurance Framework. Duties include:- Compiling reporting on internal control performance, including the results of testing, remediation activities and control monitoring- Leading the internal control testing programme, based upon the methodology I wrote from scratch to document how testing would be undertaken and documented- Planning annual testing programme and supporting testing team through this activity- Reviewing test papers to determine if controls are operating effectively based upon the evidence provided to the testing team for each control sample - Communicating with the internal control community, including company directors, to provide updates and set out upcoming IC activity- Operating Segregation of Duties analysis control on a monthly basis - Providing advice, guidance and training to Process and Control Owners as required- Regularly reviewing the company’s financial risks and mitigating controls to comply with regulatory requirements- Line management of the Financial Compliance team- Task management of the IT general controls administrator Accomplishments:- Successfully transitioning the company control environment from a Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory framework to the MOD's ICAF framework in 2021 after 4 years of clean audit opinion under SOX- Receiving a 3 star line management score in the most recent employee engagement survey

Aldermaston, Berkshire, United Kingdom

I was part of a small Financial Compliance team, successfully implementing SOx compliance within a year. As a result of this, the team was rewarded with a company Gold Award - the highest level of internal recognition - and delivered on a Lockheed Martin ‘Mission Success’ event.In the role of Process Editor for the company’s IT, Payroll and Procure to Pay control framework, I work with both the internal SOx community to drive ongoing operation of controls and with our Internal/External Audit teams to ensure smooth operation of testing. Personal accomplishments during my time with Financial Compliance include:-Creating a reporting template for Senior Managers to monitor compliance of SOx and other financial controls, which I continue to lead-Coordinating the upload and year-end sign-off of the company’s control framework in the Lockheed Martin Control and Risk Information System, working with company Directors to meet tight deadlines-Creating SOx process flowcharts to document the controls and risks per sub-process for each of the IT General Controls, Payroll and Procure to Pay areas of the business-Leading on the update of the SOx Process Narratives and Risk and Control Matrices during a new HR system implementation that occurred half way through our first year of SOx enforcement-Analysing a SOC report on the Workday system and documenting this review as part of a Payroll SOx control. Despite having no previous experience in doing this before, the review contributed to the control passing for 2017 testing -Modifying the reporting output of the company’s Financial Authority Matrix to send to a third-party systems partner, aiding the correct allocation of costs when company travel is booked-Helping to develop a process map for the Financial Compliance team’s activities to identify the risks that needed mitigating to ensure GDPR compliance

Aldermaston

Aldermaston, Berkshire

-Sales support - Processing invoices; adding to the customer database; answering calls and dealing with customer inquiries.-Marketing activities - Creating email campaigns to send out to customers; editing the website to attest to the company’s current strategies; creating Google Ads to promote certain products. -Warehouse assistance - Using initiative to help other colleagues in the warehouse with testing, packaging and the updating of stock of phones in preparation for shipment and selling. Management of the warehouse when other staff were away.

Aldermaston

-General administration tasks such as answering phone calls, responding to emails from customers and colleagues, organising and implementing mail shots, ordering all office materials needed on request and assisting Office Manager with any ad hoc tasks across the business-Aiding the Sales and Marketing Director in creating strategies for improvement throughout the businesses’ operations and on marketing the contemporary style changes of the products Gibbons Furniture offers. Project work on digital marketing lasted two months -Taking deposit and final balance payments from customers when jobs are completed, then organising the relevant administration work to be completed surrounding this task such as the production of receipts.-Welcoming visitors to Head Office with a patient, calm and smart manner and making them feel welcome ahead of management board meetings and interviews, where I was required to take minutes *The company ceased trading on 27th September 2012 and resulted in redundancy of all employees, including myself*

A Levels, Business, History And Sociology

Gcse, English, Mathematics, History, Geography, Ict/Multimedia, Humanities, Science (Btec)