SOX Auditor

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Job Description Summary

Responsible for driving technical accounting compliance, financial and operational internal controls, process simplification, and operational excellence to deliver accurate actual financial reporting and analysis. In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

·  Responsible for testing of design (perform walkthroughs of business cycles and assess the effectiveness of the processes and controls) and operative effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting (execute testing for various business processes and headquarter level activity in accordance with defined test attributes and guidance).
·  Ensure timely deficiency identification, mitigation and remediation; mnitor, follow up on the status of corrective action plans and test the remediation of identified deficiencies.
·  Carry out the testing plan in accordance with SOX cycle.
·  Support annual Fraud, Controllership and Distributed Controllership risk assessment exercise across GE Vernova
·  Serve as a controllership/internal control expert on financial system, ERP implementations, process improvement projects, migrations.
·  Coordinate multiple stakeholders such as Business Controllers, Global Business Leaders and External/Internal Auditors
·  Provide regular updates to Management in regards with the SOX cycle progress

Required Qualifications:

·  Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college in Accounting or Finance
·  Strong experience in audit or risk management
·  External certification is a plus: CPA, CA, CIA, CISA, CFE
·  Written and verbal fluency in English

Desired Characteristics:

·  Understanding of the COSO framework, SOX, FCPA, internal controls and test plan development
·  Significant experience in SOX operations (from financial perspective) or Audit (BIG4) or Internal Audit
·  Strong analytical and excellent communication skills
·  Ability to work independently
·  Efficient time management skills
·  Proficiency in Microsoft Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
·  SAP/Oracle experience is preferred

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No