About Us

Summary

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Unify internal controls objectives across risk management, strategy, operations, and business policy; to create synergies across multiple regulatory, compliance, and assurance objectives.
• Facilitate walkthroughs with management to document functional relationships between people, process and technologies that drive business performance and customer experience.
• Partner with management in implementation of effective risk mitigation and remediation strategies through internal control design, process improvements, and change management initiatives.
• Evaluate control operating effectiveness against design standards and relevant assertions.
• Implement and manage a GRC program with dashboard reporting of control monitoring, management, remediation, issue resolution, and historical analytics.
• Support internal and external audit, compliance, and regulatory teams in utilization of internal control evidence and performance assessments.
• Maintain comprehensive risk registers and reporting to keep stakeholders informed of capability maturity and risk exposure.
• Stay updated on industry best practices, regulatory requirements, risk practices related to Information Security and data governance.

• Understand Freeman objectives, LOBs, and key processes
• Learn the technical landscape across infrastructure, applications and change management
• Review existing information (P&Ps, audits, ERM, regulatory communications, & performance measures)

• Adjust risk assessment and evaluation methodologies to align with management & company objectives
• Develop risk scoring methodology to yield relevant business risks
• Map risks across business functions and process to frame aggregate scope of coverage

• Socialize controls program roadmap and align across Freeman to establish sponsorship engagement across business functions
• Align the internal control program roadmap across Freeman.
• Facilitate process owner workshops to identify key process risk and controls.

• Define formal standardized controls, striking balance between risk coverage and practicality.
• Ascribe standards of evidence and formal launch dates for formal controls designs to launch within functions.

• Perform design reviews to identify adjustments to control designs and evidence standards
• Manage and track remediation activities across functions and action owners
• Develop formal change control mechanisms for business owners to self-advocate
• Align with business change functions to establish internal control monitoring at the convergence of process and technology changes

• Develop ongoing tracking and reporting process that provide executive visibility into the health of internal controls across the business throughout the year
• Maturing run practices across the organization
• Establishing connection points between annual risk assessments and the internal control framework to target points of ongoing development
• Develop formal change control mechanisms for business owners to self-advocate for control enhancements and track changes to the formal control framework
• Work with business change functions to establish internal control monitoring at the convergence of process and technology changes

Education & Experience

• CPA/CIA
• 15 years in Internal/External Audit/Internal Controls experience
• Experience leading and executing the implementation of control frameworks
• Experience conducting risk assessments and scoring methodologies
• Experience managing an enterprise-wide controls program with control objectives ranging across business performance, regulatory compliance, IT security, ESG, and other risk/compliance frameworks
• Experience managing a controls program with process owners who are internal employees and outside service providers (near or offshore)
• Experience administering GRC platforms
• Strong data analysis skills
• Business process evaluation skills
• Strong project/program management skills
• Ability to build trusted relationships horizontally and vertically across the organization
• Excellent individual contributor who is “hands-on” and at the same time can lead team members across the organization.

What We Offer

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Parental Leave
• Life, Accident and Disability
• Retirement with Company Match
• Paid Time Off

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