Senior Associate - Internal Controls

Senior Associate – Internal Controls 

Based in Framingham, Massachusetts, the Internal Controls & Special Projects (IC&SP) group is a great opportunity to join a publicly traded Healthcare IT company that helps improve patients' lives. The IC&SP team works closely with senior leadership to monitor risk, recommend and test controls, and execute special projects related to financial reporting, risk and security.

Day to day responsibilities include the SOX business process controls audit lifecycle and working on cross-functional initiatives to transform the way DHC works.  Reporting to the Head of Internal Controls, this role will partner closely with various teams including senior management, finance, legal, privacy, external consultants, and others to manage the SOX evaluation process, test SOX controls, and maintain controls documentation.

This role also includes support of various enterprise-wide compliance processes, including enterprise risk management, streamlining SOC 2 audit support, and evaluating compliance against other industry standards, such as HIPAA. The team also performs deep dive analysis of cross-functional department processes and provision of recommendations to leadership to improve efficiency and the control environment.

The team and the company are committed to career growth, including support for industry certifications and new challenges.

What you'll do: 

• Assisting the Head of Internal Controls, plan annual SOX audit objectives, design testing procedures, and improve the overall audit process
• Advise on cross-functional transformational projects, learning about company processes and providing valuable consulting
• Conduct walkthroughs of key financial and business processes with control owners and coordinate with external audit
• Perform business process controls design and effectiveness testing, including meticulous documentation of workpapers and tracking of supporting documentation
• Identify and analyze control and process issues, ascertain root causes, and evaluate business impact and risk
• Advise process owners on how to craft remediation plans, recommend process improvements, and monitor progress to implement those solutions
• Prepare accurate and concise results and metrics for inclusion in reporting to management and the Audit Committee
• Be a key point of communication by keeping control owners in the loop and maintaining up to date information on the intranet
• Become an expert on company policies and procedures over payroll, order to cash, financial close and reporting, taxes and equity and lead by creating ways to reduce risk and improve efficiencies
• Participate in recommendations for controls and improvements in cross-functional areas to help various teams work smarter, not harder
• Innovate new ways to utilize technology to reduce audit overhead and control owner time spent on audit evidence collection

What you'll need:

• A positive, proactive, can-do, team-oriented attitude
• A thoughtful approach on how to review and mature processes and an eagerness to learn
• Prior knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, documentation, controls, and evaluation of design/effectiveness
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal, and communications skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work in a fast-paced company

Experience:

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited institution; financial majors preferred and/or-
• 2-4 years of experience in internal or external financial auditing functions, ideally with SOX controls and awareness of auditing standards and U.S. GAAP
• Internal audit professional certification such as CIA or CISA, or willingness to obtain one
• Experience with tax controls or an up-c structure a plus
• Experience with multi-national technology companies is a plus