CONTROLS MANAGER, INTERNAL FINANCIAL CONTROLS (HYBRID)

Job Summary:

Reporting to the VP of Controls, The Internal Controls Manager is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with a strong financial/internal controls background to join the North America Internal Controls team, based in our Charlotte Corporate Office. As part of the Second Line of Defense the team owns the Internal Controls framework and ensuring this continues to meet SOX and UK Corporate Governance Code requirements as these evolve. This includes working with colleagues across the organization to support a robust internal/financial risk and control environment by providing a 2nd line opinion, sharing best practice and guidance to ensuring that risk and control issues are documented, challenged, monitored, tested, reported and escalated, according to the organization’s governance structure and control frameworks. This role is part of a new team, where the candidate will have a hands-on opportunity to help augment the organization’s control environment as it progresses on a control enhancement journey, and to contribute to reporting to the Executive Committee and Group (based out of UK).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the ongoing design and implementation of the Internal Controls framework.
• Manage a team of Internal Controls Analysts in execution of controls testing, monitoring etc.
• Ensure financial and accounting processes have appropriate controls to optimally manage control risk, assisting with the execution of risk assessments where necessary.
• Provide ongoing support and review to the organization’s largest and complex sectors as they document and operate Risk and Control Matrices (RACMs).
• Collaborate with process and controls owners to obtain process understanding, documenting the process flows and/or procedure documents.
• Evaluate control deficiencies and oversee remediation of those deficiencies.
• Identify & document best practice controls which can published across the organization.
• Develop guidance to support the organization with control compliance, such as evidence maintenance, job aids etc.
• Stay up to date on internal and external changes that may impact the design or operation of controls and partner with the appropriate stakeholders to make changes accordingly.
• Support training initiatives across the organization to improve awareness and understanding of internal control requirements.
• Partner with both internal and external audit teams to facilitate a streamlined and effective audit processes, when necessary.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across all levels of the organization to enhance the control environment through process optimization and automation.
• Respond to emerging regulatory updates/Corporate Governance Code update.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Technically competent and confident in reviewing and identifying improvements in the design and operation of internal controls over financial reporting.
• Strong analytical skills, with strong risk awareness and understanding of processes and controls.
• Confident stakeholder management, communication, and able to build relationships.
• Excellent planning, co-ordination and organization skills and managing multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Previous experience working in Finance Control, Internal Audit, External Audit, Risk Assurance, Controls Assurance or US SOX experience required.
• Self-starter with the ability to lead and to work independently and engage with teams at all levels in the organization.
• Ability to translate and communicate technical or complex ideas in a simple, engaging, and concise manner.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential, with the ability to influence at all levels, as is the ability to function effectively in teams.

Qualifications:

• Four-year bachelor’s degree in accounting, or finance.
• Professional qualification such as CPA or CIA or FRM or CRMP.
• Four-Five years of experience in financial controls, internal audits, SOX audits, risk and controls assessment, risk assurance, preferably in a big-4 consulting firm or similar industry.
• Solid understanding of IFRS and/or USGAAP accounting principles.
• Excellent PC Skills (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Electronic audit work papers, etc.)
• Experience with SAP and HFM preferred.
• Familiarity with the UK Corporate Governance Code preferred.