Internal Audit: Internal Controls Experienced Professional

Looking for a suitable candidate with 3-4 years of professional experience in the areas of Risk Assessment and Internal Controls. The professional should ideally have a good understanding of Business process and IT General controls (ITGCs). Intensive knowledge for all key business processes like Purchase to Pay, Inventory, Order to Cash (Revenue process), Record to Report, Human resources and Payroll, Tax and Legal compliances. Relevant experience and exposure to J SOX compliance or similar compliances on Internal Financial controls and assessment is recommended. The professional will be responsible for end to end evaluation of Risk and Internal Controls which involves performing Design Effectiveness assessment, operating effectiveness testing and evaluation of control gaps and draft remediation for implementation of the gaps identified as part of the Controls Assessment.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Responsible for Testing the Internal controls for a country or set of countries as allocated for a large Global Company.
• Conduct Walkthroughs of the business processes and ITGC’s supporting creation of the process documentation and the flow chart of the same. Update of the process documentation basis the changes in the nature of the business and its operations.
• Perform independently the Design Assessment and Operating effectiveness Assessment of Internal controls covering business processes and IT general controls (ITGC) to ensure compliance with PCAOB requirements.
• Assess the design of the respective controls in relation to mitigating the financial risk considering the control description, its attributes, and test plan. Support in updating or drafting a Risk and Control Matrix on the business process as per the established global compliance framework.
• Documentation of SOX testing and testing results in line with internal controls methodology and pre-defined testing procedures
• Ensuring the Quality of Testing documentation to the SOX Compliance standards for both business process and ITGC
• Assist with the evaluation of control deficiencies and provide practical recommendations for remediations.
• Assist in coordinating audit efforts with business process owners, control owners and external audit team.
• Adherence to the Global Internal Controls compliance methodology and instructions from time to time.
• Effective and proactive communication with Global Compliance team as required.
• Ensuring completion of the Testing and adherence to the J SOX Testing timelines. Effective and proactive communication with the Business and controls owners for the same.
• Ability to work under strict timelines and at pressure situations to manage the timelines of delivery.
• Open to work under global time zones as required.

Qualification

• Ideally MBA in Finance/Accounting or CA/Bachelor’s degree in Business or accounting
• Knowledge of SOX, Internal audit, Internal controls, IT audit and ITGC
• Knowledge of ERP’s like S4 Hana/ SAP / Oracle/ JDE / etc. and their native application controls will be preferred.
• Knowledge of flowcharts design and process improvements.
• Ability to exercise professional skepticism and judgement while evaluating risks and controls.
• Ability to effectively interact with internal/external team and work well within a collaborative team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills