Financial Controls Associate

Description:

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Sarbanes Oxley requires management to test the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting and provide an opinion on the effectiveness of these controls. Management is required to design the test of controls to validate their effectiveness and testing of the control should be performed by someone independent of the process owners. The Financial Control Office (FCO) is seeking an individual to support this requirement.

Responsibilities:
 

• Partner with the Process Owners to ensure business processes are adequately documented within narratives, risks and controls are properly identified and a clear understand of the SOX testing requirements is understood.
• Assist with the annual planning of the walkthroughs and required testing.
• Perform walkthroughs of business processes demonstrating a clear understanding of the risks and controls.
• Obtain, review, and interpret business processes for completeness and accuracy to perform comprehensive SOX DIET testing.
• Prepare flowcharts reflective of business process with clear identification of risks and controls.
• Liaise with External/Internal Audit, IT and Business Area on identification of risk and remediation plans.
• Assist in identifying remediation of related risks, deficiencies, gaps or issues identified by either the External/Internal Audit teams.
• Track remediation progress for all identified deficient controls.
• Performs additional responsibilities as requested to meet overall business objectives.

Qualifications
 

• Required Qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree in Accounting or Finance
• 3+ yrs. of audit experience, regulatory compliance, and large-scale implementation of processes and/or systems.