Internal Control Analyst

Title- Internal Control Analyst
Location- Salt Lake City UT 84104
Duration- 3+ months contract and Chance of ext.
Shift- 1st Shift

Job Description:

• The role of Internal Control is to assist North America Leadership in fulfilling it's governance responsibilities, including ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the internal control systems and processes.
• The Internal Control Analyst (ICA) will report to the Associate Director, Internal Control (ADIC), who reports to the Sr Vice President, CFO North America (CFO NORAM). The ICA will work extensively with the ADIC on North America and Global control and audit initiatives. The ADIC will follow the direction of the ICA in adopting a systematic and disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the organization's risk management, control and governance processes.
• In this capacity, the ICA will have the opportunity to become a subject matter expert (SME) on multiple control concepts while interacting with the entire breadth of bioMérieux's control environment with an emphasis on the SAP entities within North America. The wide variety of control topics gives the IC unique opportunity to develop detailed knowledge of the entire scope of bioMérieux's activities.
• As a key part of the Internal Control team, this individual will need a solid understanding of debits and credits and how they flow within various ERPs and how they are ultimately consolidated at the corporate level. They will peer review and validate the findings, recommendations, reports and notes created by the team for errors or omissions.
• This role will be expected to have the ability to communicate audit and control topics effectively to all levels of the organization. They will need the ability to take complex control topics and put them into reports that can be presented to North America Leadership.

Primary Duties:

• Analyze and monitor North Americas internal control system.
• Perform financial, operations and compliance audits.
• Make recommendations on risk areas to be considered in the annual control testing program.
• Consolidate findings and notes from the team into draft audit reports to be reviewed with the ADIC.
• Maintain a follow-up schedule for any findings and recommended actions.
• Foster a continuous improvement mindset by making recommendations for the teams' growth and development in control related topics.
• Make recommendations of appropriate actions to manage or mitigate risks.
• Support the ADIC in executing other Global Control or Global Audit initiatives.
• Help implement an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework for all entities in North America that is consistent with COSO principles.
• Help implement a continuous monitoring program for all entities within North America.
• Other projects as assigned by the ADIC or the Local Head of Finance

Additional Detail: Minimal to no travel is expected. This is a hybrid role that requires candidates to be located in Utah and to be able to commute at least 50% of the time to the office in Salt Lake City, Utah. The first 2 to 4 weeks will be primarily in-office for training.

Training and Education

• A bachelor's degree in accounting or finance and a minimum of 4 years of experience in Internal/External Audit, Accounting, ERM, or Internal Control.

OR,

• a master's degree in accounting or finance and a minimum of 2 years of experience in Internal/External Audit, Accounting, ERM, or Internal Control.

Experience:
Minimum time and type of experience required for this position.

1. Minimum 4 years of experience in Accounting or Internal Audit or External Audit or ERM
2. Minimum 3 years of experience in ERPs (NetSuite, QuickBooks, SAP, Oracle)
3. Minimum 1 year of experience in GRC tools (Audit Board, Arengi, SAP Audit)
4. Minimum 1 year of data analysis and using tools like DOMO, Tableau, Power BI (academic or professional)
5. Minimum 4 years of Microsoft Suite experience (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Preference will be given to prior audit or accounting experience at publicly traded companies. Three years of Experience in SAP, or NetSuite is preferred. Experience with data analysis tools like Tableau, DOMO, Power BI, etc are preferred. Preference will be given to a CPA or CIA.
• This is a technical role, and comfort with understanding and utilizing data is required. It is a role that will frequently deal with accounting/finance concepts, so comfort with the terminology and concepts is required. Being able to communicate efficiently and accurately is imperative for this role to succeed.
• Must be able to perform all job duties and ability to adjust or move objects up to 50 pounds in all directions.