Hybrid: This position requires you to work on-site 3 times a week (Tue to Thu)
The Role
Controllership’s mission is to serve as a Strategic Business Partner, bringing timely and insightful decisions to all strategic and tactical matters as they related to SEC requirements, accounting, audit/SOX compliance and financial analyses, leveraging financial systems and processes that increase visibility, improve efficiency, shorten decision cycle times, and reinforce financial integrity and accountability.
The Financial Assurance team is primarily responsible for executing the activities for assessing the Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) and managing SOX & non-SOX reporting requirements, while providing expertise and driving effective risk management over financial reporting. The group collaborates with the regional Controllers, business units and external auditors when planning, testing, reviewing and assessing financial reporting and disclosure controls.
What will you do?
Supervises key internal controls and SOX & non-SOX compliance activities, including development and communication of SOX program guidance and methodology, monitoring of due dates and review of deliverables according to the program’s schedule, conducting and participating in walkthroughs, and performing tests of design and operational effectiveness for in-scope controls.
Performs detailed review and provides feedback to testers regarding procedures and documentation supporting the SOX compliance program (process flowcharts, risk assessments, test plans, test documentation, etc.).
Develops a detailed understanding of GM’s processes and systems in order to identify potential accounting risks and issues, control gaps, and opportunities to streamline processes and controls.
Assessing control deficiencies, including agreement with control owners on root cause, any mitigating controls, impact analysis, and remediation action plans
Promotes and monitors process improvement, modernization and time savings initiatives.
Builds and maintains effective working relationships with business partners across and outside the organization.
Supports the manager on recruiting, training, developing and establishing work assignments for a team of analysts.
Provides timely feedback and supports professional growth of team members.
Completes special assignments as required.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree: Accounting, Business or related fields
Advanced or Fluent English. Excellent written and oral communication skills
Sufficient technical background in audit, internal controls and reporting (internal or external)
Demonstrated ability to work and lead with minimal supervision on unstructured assignments
Excellent team building, planning, change management and leadership skills
Microsoft Office skills
Innovation mindset
Demonstrated problem solving ability and ability to resolve issues under tight deadlines
Ability to prioritize assignments / projects and multi-task within time constraints
Ability to network and collaborate cross-functionally
High level of understanding of business operations
Strong leadership, interpersonal skills and demonstrated commitment to teamwork
Preferred Qualifications:
MBA or Masters of Science degree in business field
CRC (Regional Council of Accounting) registration
Spanish language skills (spoken/written) preferred
Experience managing people and leading teams
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