Senior Analyst, Internal Control

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Role Overview

The Internal Control Senior Analyst’s mission is to strengthen and maintain an effective and efficient internal controls environment, with primary focus on Americas region. The preferred candidate will have excellent internal controls knowledge and proactive engagement mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the execution of the S-Ox program under the supervision of management.
• Assist in completing internal controls review over financial reporting or operational process to ensure compliance to company policies.
• Promote the importance of Internal Controls throughout the organization.
• Assist with critical and global initiatives to improve internal controls over financial reporting.
• Assist with facilitating various processes to maintain adequate internal controls, including: balance sheet reviews across the region and segregation of duties review for key applications.
• Support management to ensure control deficiencies are timely and adequately remediated.
• Assist with preparing and coordinating ad-hoc reports to stakeholdersas required.
• Work with Ethics and Compliance and Business/Process Owners to support the compliance, fraud prevention or detection efforts, and/or investigations that impact internal controls as requested.

Essential Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Accounting and working knowledge of US GAAP is required.
• Between 2-4 years of experience; public accounting, external audit, internal audit or related large public company experience required – Big 4 experience a plus.
• Bilingual English-Spanish.
• ERP functional knowledge is preferred. JDE system is a plus.
• Project Management skills and experience working with multi-project management is preferred.
• Knowledge of processes, risk assessments, financial/operational internal controls and internal controls principles (e.g. COSO) is required.
• Proficiency in identifying and assessing internal control design and operating effectiveness is required.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate concisely and effectively with multiple levels of management.
• Good interpersonal, communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills.
• Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Process improvements focused and thorough understanding of financial controls.