ANALYST, FINANCIAL RISK & CONTROLS (HYBRID)

Compass Group•Charlotte, NC

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Reporting to the Financial Risks & Controls Manager, the Financial Risks & Controls Analyst role is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with a strong financial/internal controls background to join the North America Internal Controls team, based in our Charlotte Corporate Office. As part of the Second Line of Defense (2LOD), the team owns the Internal Controls framework and ensures the framework continues to meet UK Corporate Governance Code requirements and continues to evolve and grow. This includes working with colleagues across the organization to support a robust internal/financial risk and control environment by providing a 2LOD opinion, sharing best practice and guidance to ensure 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 is part of a growing 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.

Requirements

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; US SOX experience is preferred.
Self-starter with the ability to lead, 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, with the ability to influence at all levels, and function effectively in teams.
Four-year bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
Professional qualification such as CPA, CIA, FRM, or CRMP.
Two-Three years of experience in financial controls, internal audits, SOX audits, risk and controls assessment, risk assurance, preferably in a big-4 accounting firm or similar industry.
Solid understanding of IFRS and/or US GAAP accounting principles.
Excellent PC Skills (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Electronic audit work papers, etc.)

Nice To Haves

US SOX experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Support the ongoing implementation of the Internal Controls framework and 2LOD testing strategy.
Perform day-to-day execution of 2LOD activities such as controls testing, monitoring, tracking, etc.
Ensure financial and accounting processes have appropriate controls to optimally manage financial risk, assisting with the execution of risk assessments where necessary.
Provide ongoing support and review to the organization’s largest and complex sectors as they implement, evidence, and improve their controls.
Collaborate with process and controls owners to obtain process understanding, documenting the process flows and/or procedure documents.
Evaluate control deficiencies and oversee remediation of those deficiencies.
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 a streamlined and effective audit processes, when necessary.