Enterprise Risk Management Consultant

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

Our Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) SOX team is responsible for overseeing policies, processes, people and systems supporting internal controls over financial reporting. As a Consultant on the business process SOX team, you will play a central role in translating SOX compliance requirements into internal Verizon control guidance and enforcing a strong control environment.

• Performing risk assessments for the business function under review and making decisions concerning the scope of work to be performed based on those identified risks

• Assessing the quality and conclusions of management’s SOX control testing, and providing feedback to strengthen management’s assessment of control design and operating effectiveness. 

• Formulating remediation action plans for controls that are not designed or functioning as intended 

• Developing recommendations for the improvement of the control environment to address current and developing threats

• Tailoring and delivering training to business stakeholders on SOX control requirements to enforce a strong and compliant control environment.

• Facilitating communication between our external auditors and control owners to ensure there is a clear understanding of audit requests, alignment on relevant risk areas, and the sufficiency of controls designed to address those risks.

What we’re looking for...

You’re a great communicator, winning the trust of team members, internal customers, and external suppliers. No stranger to a fast-paced environment and tight deadlines, you can adapt to changing circumstances, juggle competing priorities, and combine a sense of urgency with due care and attention to detail. You get personal satisfaction from analyzing problems and delivering solutions to improve business processes.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Math, or Information Systems or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience with Sarbanes Oxley Section 404.

• Experience in operational compliance, business controls, or Finance.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A Professional certification (CPA, CIA, CISA, CFE).

• Big 4 Public accounting audit experience

• Experience interpreting and implementing policies and processes to ensure a strong control environment.

• Experience using auditing principles and methods to evaluate policies, processes and systems to identify business risks and control gaps.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for analytics and presentation.

• Demonstrated organizational, facilitation and negotiation skills.

• Experience with report writing/database

• Knowledge of statistics, reporting and analytical tools.

• Telecommunications experience.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

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