Job Summary
Reporting to the Director, Risk and Controls, the Risk & Controls Manager is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with a strong financial / internal controls background to join the North America Risk & Controls team, based in our Charlotte Corporate Office. As part of the Second Line of Defense, the team owns the Internal Controls frameworks and ensuring this continues to meet leading practices and UK Corporate Governance Code requirements as these evolve. This includes working with colleagues across the organization to support a robust risk and control environment by providing a second line opinion, sharing best practices and guidance to ensuring that risk and control issues are documented, challenged, monitored, tested, reported and escalated, according to the organization's governance structure and control frameworks. This role has the opportunity to work with multiple functions in the organization including accounting and finance, digital and technology, HR, compliance, sustainability, and safety. This role is part of a new team, where the candidate will have a hands-on opportunity to help augment the organization's control environment as it progresses on a control enhancement journey.
Responsibilities
- Support the ongoing design and implementation of Internal Controls frameworks.
- Manage Risk & Controls Seniors / Analysts in executing controls testing, monitoring, and reporting results, etc.
- Ensure business processes have appropriate controls to optimally manage risks, assisting with the execution of risk assessments where necessary.
- Provide ongoing support to corporate functions and / or operating sectors to review to and challenge their identified risks and controls as documented in their Risk and Control Matrices (RACMs).
- Collaborate with process and controls owners to obtain process understanding, documenting the process flows and / or procedure documents.
- Identify & document leading practice controls which can be published across the organization.
- Develop guidance to support the organization with control compliance, such as evidence maintenance, job aids etc.
- Partner with business teams on cross-departmental projects to improve the overall control environment.
- Support the enterprise risk management process
- Stay up to date on internal and external changes that may impact the design or operation of controls and partner with the appropriate stakeholders to make changes accordingly.
- Support training initiatives across the organization to improve awareness and understanding of internal control requirements.
- Partner with both internal and external audit teams to facilitate streamlined and effective audit processes, as necessary.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders across all levels of the organization to enhance the control environment through process optimization and automation.
- Respond to emerging regulatory updates / UK Corporate Governance Code updates.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :
Technically competent and confident in reviewing and identifying improvements in the design and operation of internal controls.Strong analytical skills, with strong risk awareness and understanding of processes and controls.Confident stakeholder management, communication, and able to build relationships.Excellent planning, coordination and organization skills and managing multiple priorities and stakeholders.Previous experience working in Finance Control, Internal Audit, External Audit, Risk Assurance, Controls Assurance.Self-starter with the ability to lead and to work independently and engage with teams at all levels in the organization.Ability to translate and communicate technical or complex ideas in a simple, engaging, and concise manner.Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential, with the ability to influence at all levels, as is the ability to function effectively in teams.Qualifications
Four-year bachelor's degree in accounting, or finance.Professional qualification such as CPA or CIA.Minimum 5 years of experience in financial controls, internal audits, SOX audits, risk and controls assessment, risk assurance, preferably in a Big-4 firm or Fortune 500 organization.Strong knowledge of Internal Auditing Standards, PCAOB Standards, and COSO, etc.Recent (past 5 years) US SOX experience strongly preferred.Excellent PC Skills (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Electronic audit work papers, etc.)Experience with SAP S / 4 and HFM preferred.Familiarity with the UK Corporate Governance Code preferred.Compass Corporate maintains a drug-free workplace. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
Associates at Corporate are offered many fantastic benefits.
MedicalDentalVisionLife Insurance / ADDisability InsuranceRetirement PlanPaid Time OffPaid Parental LeaveHoliday Time Off (varies by site / state)Personal LeaveAssociate Shopping ProgramHealth and Wellness ProgramsDiscount MarketplaceIdentity Theft ProtectionPet InsuranceCommuter BenefitsEmployee Assistance ProgramFlexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)Associates may also be eligible for paid and / or unpaid time off benefits in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.