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Compensation: To $95K.
Job Overview – Internal Controls Analyst – 33428
An exciting opportunity awaits for a candidate with a strong financial and internal controls background to join the North America Internal Controls team for a global organization. This hands-on role offers the chance to shape and enhance the organization's control environment as part of a newly established team. As a key member of the Second Line of Defense, you will help manage the Internal Controls framework, ensuring it aligns with evolving SOX and UK Corporate Governance Code requirements. This includes collaborating across the organization to support a robust risk and control environment through second-line opinions, best practice sharing, and guidance on documenting, monitoring, testing, and escalating risk and control issues in line with governance structures and frameworks.
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Seniority Level: Mid Level
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About Our Process
Job Overview – Internal Controls Analyst – 33428
An exciting opportunity awaits for a candidate with a strong financial and internal controls background to join the North America Internal Controls team for a global organization. This hands-on role offers the chance to shape and enhance the organization's control environment as part of a newly established team. As a key member of the Second Line of Defense, you will help manage the Internal Controls framework, ensuring it aligns with evolving SOX and UK Corporate Governance Code requirements. This includes collaborating across the organization to support a robust risk and control environment through second-line opinions, best practice sharing, and guidance on documenting, monitoring, testing, and escalating risk and control issues in line with governance structures and frameworks.
- Contribute to the implementation of the Internal Controls framework by executing and monitoring Second Line of Defense (2LOD) activities, including controls testing, tracking, and risk assessments.
- Ensure financial and accounting processes have effective controls to manage risks, providing guidance and review for Risk and Control Matrices (RACMs) in complex organizational sectors.
- Collaborate with process and control owners to understand workflows, document processes, and support remediation of identified control deficiencies.
- Stay informed about internal and external developments affecting controls, working with stakeholders to update designs, processes, and compliance strategies as needed.
- Support organizational training on internal control requirements and partner with internal and external audit teams to streamline and enhance audit processes.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- One or more qualifications such as CPA, CIA, FRM, or CRMP
- 1 year of experience in financial controls, internal audits, SOX audits, risk and controls assessment, risk assurance, preferably in a public consulting firm
- Experience with IFRS and GAAP accounting principles
Workplace Policy:
Seniority Level: Mid Level
Linked In Poster:
About Our Process
- We will notify you if you are selected as a candidate for this role. If not, but you fit our specializations, we'll consider you for future openings, and encourage you to apply for other Sherpa roles you're qualified for/interested in.
- Non-Local Candidates: Please note that you are competing with local candidates who don’t require relocation expenses and can start quickly, so let us know if you have plans to move to the area soon.
- Candidates for all Sherpa opportunities must be authorized to work in the United States.
- Sherpa is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Salary : $95,000
