Description
Our Client in Brooklyn is looking for a Sox Compliance Analyst to Assess and support financial process development and discipline across Finance to create standardization and consistency of financial procedures and tasks to mitigate financial risk and improved efficiencies for Company.
Key Accountabilities:
Identify financial process weaknesses in conjunction with the SOX Implementation team, manager of controls strategy and stakeholders within Finance and work on project teams in performing root cause analysis, developing corrective actions and embedding enhanced processes within the Financial Services area to ensure compliance with Company strategic plans, policies, procedures and internal controls. Provide support within the Financial Services area to grow core capabilities surrounding documentation, review and recordkeeping of financial transactions. Challenge existing ways of working and continuously seek ways to do things better and implement those ways into the financial processes in order to drive greater efficiencies within the financial controls area. Support development and communication of financial processes across Financial Services and the Lines of Business to enhance process owners understanding and ownership of process design and controls. Keep up to date with accounting principle developments, corporate governance over financial reporting and regulatory accounting developments in order to ensure the optimization of best practice for Company. Work with management to align financial risk assessments and control procedures and to translate them into well-defined processes and procedures in order to support compliance and ongoing innovation within Company. Assist in translating business objectives into clearly defined financial processes, policies and procedures to create awareness of best practices and drive standardization of processes to maximize internal control effectiveness and efficiency. Provide insight and prepare control recommendations to management concerning process improvement opportunities.
Skills:
Capability Requirements:
Analytical Thinking:
Sees multiple relationships within the Financial processes, identifying several likely causes or consequences of a situation.
Conceptual Thinking:
Ability to see patterns or trends in the financial processes, notices when something is similar to a past situation.
Impact and Influence:
Adapts approach for individuals, team, business partners, senior management, etc., considers what is important to the audience and tailors the content and tone of the message accordingly.
Education:
Knowledge & Experience Requirements:
Degree in Finance or Accounting with at least 3 years qualifying experience. A CPA is desired. Public accounting experience, preferably Big Four Solid understanding of emerging trends and best practises in corporate governance over financial reporting, Internal controls (COSO Framework & PCAOB Standards), Financial Reporting and Accounting, business functions and processes of an electric and gas utility, Sarbanes-Oxley Act and related requirements, Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Generally Accepted Auditing Standards. Ability to assess and implement the financial controls policies and procedures, using analysis as evidence to support line of reasoning. International businesses experience a plus, particularly prior experience in UKcorporate governance and controls standards (including theUK's Combined Code).