All about the role:
As the Internal Controls Analyst for Business Area North America, your role is pivotal in safeguarding the organization's interests and ensuring it operates within the bounds of regulatory compliance. Conducting audit activities with precision and attention to detail, you provide essential assurances regarding operational effectiveness, financial reliability, and adherence to legal requirements.
Your expertise in identifying potential risks within the organization's processes and systems is invaluable. By proposing practical solutions and improvements, you not only mitigate risks but also enhance overall compliance standards. Your collaborative efforts with local Finance and Operations teams, along with Group Internal Audit, ensure that insights are shared, and organizational objectives are aligned.
In the face of a dynamic business environment, your contributions are instrumental in driving continuous improvement across all operational areas. By fostering a culture of compliance and excellence, you play a crucial role in bolstering the organization's resilience and contributing to its long-term success.
What you’ll do:
- Review and Assess Compliance: Evaluate the organization's adherence to group policies and control requirements designed to mitigate financial and operational risk. This involves conducting thorough reviews of existing processes and controls to identify any areas of non-compliance or inefficiency.
- Continuously Review Controls: Regularly assess the effectiveness of financial and operational controls, updating them as needed to align with current group policies, regulatory requirements, and management objectives. This ensures that controls remain relevant and effective in mitigating risks.
- Coordinate with Process Owners: Work closely with process owners to update documentation and testing plans for controls on an annual basis. This collaboration ensures that controls are properly documented and tested to provide assurance over key processes.
- Liaison with External Auditors: Act as a bridge between internal staff and external auditors, facilitating communication and providing necessary documentation and support during audits. This ensures a smooth audit process and helps address any audit findings efficiently.
- Coordinate Internal Control Tests: Collaborate with Group Internal Audit to coordinate internal control testing activities. This involves designing testing plans, executing tests, and documenting results to provide assurance over the effectiveness of internal controls.
- Conduct Management Testing: Perform annual management testing of ECS internal controls to ensure their effectiveness and identify any areas for improvement. This proactive approach helps strengthen internal controls and mitigate risks.
- Identify Gaps and Recommend Remediation: Analyze control gaps and highlight key risks, recommending remediation actions to address deficiencies and enhance compliance. This involves proposing practical solutions and improvements to mitigate risks effectively.
- Streamline Business Processes: Assess opportunities to streamline business processes and identify projects for redesign and implementation in collaboration with business leaders. This involves optimizing processes to improve efficiency while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Participate in Special Projects: Collaborate with leadership on special projects as requested, leveraging your expertise in internal controls and risk management to support organizational objectives.
Qualifications:
- You possess a bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting (CPA or CIA a plus)
- You have 3+ years of accounting, auditing and/or compliance experience, preferably in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- You are characterized by integrity and high professional and ethical standards
- You have comprehensive analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
- You have strong interpersonal skills, including excellent written and oral communication skills
- You interact and collaborate successfully with all levels of an organization and across a multitude of functional areas
- You successfully manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously
- You have a strong bias for continual process improvement
Benefits highlights:
- Medical benefits start day one
- Generous 401K match
- Tuition reimbursement opportunities
As part of Electrolux, we will continuously invest in you and your development. There are no barriers to where your career could take you.
Find more on:
Electrolux North America: https://www.linkedin.com/company/electrolux/life/northamerica/
Electrolux Home Products, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
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