Supervisor, Financial Controls

McDonald's Corporation•Chicago, IL

43d

About The Position

The Supervisor, Financial Controllership (SOX Controls) role will support the success of our leading practice internal control environment and driving a control conscious and compliant organization. As part of a controllership organization, this role plays a key part in McDonald’s Global Finance Modernization (GF Mod) initiatives, building strong processes and controls across the McDonald’s system. Additionally, this role will serve as a key liaison across Finance, Technology, Global Internal Audit, Global Business Services and Markets to drive an effective and efficient controls environment.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in accounting, finance, auditing, consulting, tech, or compliance roles
Public Accounting/Auditing experience, including experience with PCAOB standards
Must possess a strong technical knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements & expectations
Excellent communicator with ability to clearly convey complex messages
Demonstrated history of strong cross-functional relationship development
Financial Controllership experience (SOX Controls).

Nice To Haves

CPA or CIA (or in progress)
Experience with ERP systems and finance tools (e.g., Oracle, AuditBoard)
Controls implementation or consulting experience
Experience with IT controls/auditing
Prior experience in large, complex, or global organizations
Experience supporting finance transformation or system implementations

Responsibilities

Support the quarterly and annual review and assessment of internal controls with key stakeholders and control owners to support management’s assessment of internal controls over financial reporting in financial filings with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission.
Contribute to Internal Audit’s report out to Senior Leadership (specifically, CFO, Corporate Controller and Chief Audit Executive) on the effectiveness of the internal control environment.
Execute actions, tracking, training, and support to address internal control risks and opportunities, including risks associated with the Company’s broader global transformation efforts. Partner closely with transformation teams to document and mitigate risk, and enable the organization for controllership success.
Support the design, communication, and enforcement of internal control policies and governance.
Identify areas of emerging control and governance risk through proactive and regular collaboration with market finance, market Controllers, Corporate Functions, Internal Auditors, External Auditors, Global Technology, Global Business Services and Finance Transformation. Build and foster cross-functional and cross-market relationships in support of controllership objectives. Key involvement in decision making to assess risk and ensure controls in place across the business mitigate risk.
Assist with walkthroughs, control testing, and audit support activities, and partner with Internal Audit, External Audit, and control owners to ensure timely and accurate audit responses.
Execute initiatives to streamline/standardize controls and related enablement to support a more sustainable and efficient SOX environment. Establish self-testing and continuous controls monitoring to help mature control operation. This includes coaching, mentoring, and training of control owners.
Support the Corporate Controller Group to optimize our compliance efforts, ensuring we set the bar for the rest of the system in terms of risk governance, controls, and documentation.
Execute the controls remediation program, as necessary, with efficient and effective tracking of deficiencies through remediation and Audit testing/monitoring.