Financial Analyst (IT)

Role: Financial Analyst (IT)

Location: Charlotte, NC

Job Type: Full Time / Permanent

The role of Analyst - IT Financial Controls is critical to the success of our company compliance with Sarbanes standards that require management to assess internal controls over financial statements annually. The Financial Controls function strives to evaluate the design and operational effectiveness of the detective and preventative controls within processes that facilitate the preparation of reliable financial statements. The function will also work with management to develop an appropriate level of financial control to address new processes/risks.

Under general supervision, this position will be responsible for testing and associated documentation in compliance with SOX requirements. This position may provide functional advice/training to less-experienced personnel.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Participate in the review and evaluation of existing and proposed internal controls over manual and automated operations to comply with SOX requirements.

• Participate in the development of controls including analytical tools, reports, and systems to meet management’s needs.

• Provide insight into potential process improvements

• Support qualitative improvements in control operations to reduce / eliminate control deficiencies

• Monitor identified deficiencies and SOX remediation efforts to ensure timely closure of findings

• Assist and coordinate the performance of walkthroughs

• Prepare ad-hoc presentations to senior management

• May support staff in the preparation of report/department organizations

• Work with internal and external auditors to answer questions and provide supporting documentation

• Miscellaneous duties as assigned

Skills & Experience MUST HAVES:

• 2-5 years overall experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business- and/or IT-related discipline (i.e. Finance, Accounting, Business Admin, etc. / Computer Science, Information Management, Information Systems, etc.)

• CPA Certification

• Project/Program management experience

- Management (scheduling, budgeting, etc) of a project/function over an extended period with concrete deliverables

- Development of risk assessment, scoping, framework creation (any mention of COSO, COBIT, NIST, ITIL, ISO a plus)

• Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) control testing/management experience

- Ideally, this would be managing IT SOX reviews with oversight of others

- Testing/review experience in a structured audit environment

• Financial services experience

• Application IT General Controls (ITGC) Experience

- Logical Security/Authentication/Passwords

- System Change Management Controls and/or System Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC)

- User Appropriateness reviews

- Segregation of Duties (SOD) and/or Segregation of Environment (SOE) reviews

- Vendor risk assessments – SAS70, SSAE16, SOC1/SOC2

• Infrastructure Controls Experience

- Operating System controls: Windows, UNIX, Mainframe

- Database controls: Oracle, SQL, DB2

- Network device controls: routers, switches

- Application general controls

- SAP GL

- Firewall controls

- Data Center/Physical Security

- Disaster Recovery/Backup controls

PREFERRED:

• Other certifications such as: CISA, CISSP, CIA, AICPA, ISACA, IIA

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated experience with process documentation including flowcharting and narratives, walkthroughs, and control testing

• Ability to organize data and exercise effective problem solving skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to communicate effectively across business levels (both vertically and horizontally).

• Ability to support multiple assignments and stakeholders, prioritize workload for self, and coordinate with teammates to meet deadlines.

• Ability to build strong relationships with internal business partners and experience working with multiple business partners in a collaborative and team-oriented manner.

• Comfortable working in an evolving and dynamic environment

• Flexible and can work independently and in a team environment

• Detail-oriented, energetic, motivated, and action-oriented

Bachelors

In case you are interested and meet the requirements, please send your resume with contact information, hourly rate and best time to reach you. Please note:

• Client will not pay relocation cost

We look forward to receiving your resume!