Assoc Dir, Internal Auditing

Syneos Health • Morrisville, NC

1d • $97,300 - $170,300

About The Position

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization dedicated to accelerating customer success by partnering with innovators across the drug development and commercialization continuum. The company emphasizes collaboration, agility, and commitment among its 25,000 colleagues, fostering an inclusive culture focused on career development, progression, and impactful solutions in healthcare. The Associate Director, Internal Auditing role involves planning, executing, and completing audit fieldwork, identifying and quantifying risks, and recommending improvements for senior management and process owners. This includes financial, operational, contract, compliance, and special investigation audits across various business activities and locations. The role also encompasses SOX testing responsibilities, such as designing controls, overseeing co-sourcing partners, and performing control testing, all with minimal guidance.

Requirements

• Strong technical accounting skills
• Ability to identify financial issues, develop and execute mitigating actions
• Ability to demonstrate the highest ethical standards
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to influence others
• Ability to maintain a level of independence to ensure there is no conflict of interest
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, managers and clients.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or other related field, and a minimum of five years’ accounting experience including up to 4 years of public accounting or internal auditing experience, or other equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage the periodic SOX testing with our co-sourcing partner and perform SOX testing on specified controls. This includes, but is not limited to, scheduling annual walk-throughs, communicating testing results, recommending control design improvements, and summarizing testing results for senior management.
• Assist in the development of audit programs in conjunction with the Audit Director.
• Conduct audit testing of specified area and identify reportable issues and dimension of risk.
• Determine compliance with policies and procedures.
• Examine records to ensure proper recording of transactions and compliance with applicable laws, agreements and policies.
• Documents the audit methodology and results of testing in work-papers which comply with department standards for content and quality.
• Verbally communicate findings to the Chief Audit Executive and draft a comprehensive and complete report of audit area.
• Perform special projects for the Audit Committee and Chief Audit Executive.
• Provides clear and actionable recommendations in verbal and/or written format.
• As necessary, performs follow-up on assigned audit report recommendations to ensure process owners have completed agreed upon responsive action.
• Participates in annual risk assessment process and the development of the annual audit plan.

Benefits

• company car or car allowance
• Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision
• Company match 401k
• eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance
• flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees