Internal Controls yst Internal Controls Manager Based In USA Apply

Job Description

A world leading Fortune 500sized ($3bn t/o; 10000 employees) listed manufacturing business consistently voted as one of the best businesses to work for is looking for an Internal Controls Analyst / Internal Controls Manager* Americas (reporting directly to the Regional Head of Internal Controls who in turn reports to the Global Head of Internal Controls VP).

The role location is very flexible and is envisaged to be split between your choice of the major office locations in the USA (Chicago Illinois; San Antonio Texas; Columbia South Carolina; Pittsburgh Pennsylvania; Nashville Tennessee) home / remote working and some manageable travel to the key regional offices and businesses within the Group.

The Group operates in more than 50 countries in 100 operating units and is seen as the global leader in nearly all the markets in which it operates. The companys market capitalisation has morethan trebled in the last 5 years and that is largely due to and perhaps most importantly due to the fact that it truly values its people. They actively encourage innovation & ingenuity support each other. As part of this they are passionate about recruiting the best possible talent into their business. Im proud to say that I have recruited everyone in the new joiners to the internal audit risk and controls teams for this globally over the last 8 years and all of these people are still with the company although most have been promoted into bigger role since.

A key area of focus is the establishment of a Groupwide internal controls framework which sets a consistent minimum standard of controls expected within each Group business and can act as a baseline for the implementation of any regulatory internal control requirements. The Controls department will work closely with the Group Head of Internal Audit and Group Head of Internal Controls to develop the Group standard internal control framework before taking ownership of the rollout implementation and embedding of the framework across the Group.

You will support the Controls team to design and develop the Groups internal control framework and ultimately test against the internal controls framework across the Group covering all 100 operating units as part of a highprofile and fastgrowing international team of Regional Control Champions based across the Groups key geographic regions in the Americas EMEA and AsiaPac (currently 7 people but likely to grow to be c.1015 people).

As part of this work you will:

• identify opportunities for improvement and efficiency through automation of control activities.
• assist the local process owners in the creation of local process narrative/maps relating to the controls being evaluated.
• agree any control gaps identified with the local process owner and agree proposed remediation actions with the local management.
• identify and oversee the status of remediation activity ensuring actions are closed on a timely basis.
• ensure process and control alignment with any changes arising from ERP implementations.
• work with the Head of Internal Audits team internal stakeholders in the businesses the Big 4 partner and external auditors (including local teams) to ensure alignment on views and approach as the project progresses.
• provide regular project updates and progress reports to senior stakeholders including the Business Leadership Teams Director of Group Finance Head of Internal Audit Group CFO and Group Audit Committee.
• act as a champion throughout the Group for the concepts of strong governance internal control and risk management sharing learnings and good practice across the business.
• be a subject matter expert for specific process/processes in scope for the programme.

We are looking for a controls audit advisory finance or risk advisory professional (albeit likely early in your career with probably 15 years experience) with training in a Big 4 / Top 10 a commercial business or a mix of the two. Experience of accounting and reporting issues faced by a global publicly listed Group reporting under IFRS; and of rolling out and/or operating in a Controls/ SarbanesOxley (SOX) environment would be an advantage. A professional qualification e.g. CPA CA CIA etc. would be an advantage but not essential.

*Level (eg. Internal Controls Analyst and Internal Controls Manager) and salary dependent on location & experience as a guide this role will likely be offered at about US$plus package. We will be happy to consult you with this before starting the process but our aim is for the package offered to be market leading.

We are seeking a Software Engineer to execute the full lifecycle of the product development by programming welldesigned efficient and testable code that meets specifications.

Responsibilities

• Develop new capabilities and rearchitect parts of an existing system.
• Take part in testdriven iterative development prototyping and reviews with a team of developers.
• Design and code middle and backend in a clean and efficient way.
• Implement scalable and robust services.
• Develop external and internal APIs.
• Develop and run unit and performance tests to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Review and debug code.
• Develops documentation flowcharts layouts diagrams charts code comments and clean code to explain and show solutions.
• Determines and designs system specifications standards and programming to prepare and install solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Software Engineering Information Technology or related field
• Between 1 and 3 years of experience in software engineering
• Experience developing serverside web applications in Java
• Experience developing Java Web Services with public API (e.g. REST SOAP)
• Experience with relational (e.g. MySQL PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)
• Proficient in objectoriented development
• Able to effectively and quickly adopt new technology
• Knowledge of Java frameworks architecture and design patterns
• Good communication skills

Remote Work :

No