Corporate Accounting - Financial Risk & Controls
New York, NY
Posted Jul 25, 2022 - Requisition No. 105780
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What’s the role?
Bloomberg’s Financial Controls Management Team governs all the financial controls for Company, including financial reporting, treasury, hire to retire, procure to pay, order to cash, fixed assets, IT General Controls, and statutory reporting. Our Team acts as the second line of defense to monitor financial process risks, collaborates with our stakeholders to strengthen the organizations internal controls and strives to identify drive continuous change for process improvements.
We’ll trust you to:
- Maintain the governance framework for internal controls over financial reporting by maintaining the current controls database and identifying key financial and entity level controls and identify design gaps
- Periodically test the operating effectiveness of controls, including planning, stakeholder management, developing test plans, fieldwork execution and results reporting
- Act as advisor to business partners in assessing risk and defining appropriate mitigation controls through activities including development of Risk and Controls Matrices (RACMs), process flow mapping, and refinement of controls
- Build relationships with cross functional teams to enhance overall internal controls framework and drive process improvements
- Facilitating the periodic management certification process of internal controls
- Provide guidance and secondary review of management’s SOC report review controls
- Participate in reporting to senior management and stakeholders
- A minimum of 7 years of internal audit, external audit, and/or relevant controls experience of a publicly traded company.
- Experience evaluating internal controls design, identifying key risks and controls for a wide range of business processes, including financial reporting, treasury, hire to retire, procure to pay, order to cash, fixed assets, IT General Controls, and statutory reporting
- Strong knowledge of internal audit process, control evaluation and testing methodologies, and other Financial and Operational Internal Control methodologies and terminology e.g. COSO.
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Ability to drive Team strategy and set the tone for strengthening the controls environment
- Aptitude identify internal efficiencies and implement internal process improvements
- Work independently, think critically and analytically, perform research and is solution oriented
- CPA designation required, or strong accounting foundation in US GAAP
- Winning attitude, professionally and personally driven
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment in a role that has high visibility throughout the organization
- Passion to be a part of an evolving internal controls function and drive for continuous process improvements
- Experience working with SAP
You’ll need to have:
We’d love to see:
Does this sound like you?
Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are.
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Salary Range: 150,000 - 165,000 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus