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The Team: Risk & Regulatory Our team is comprised of a powerful mix of seasoned professionals with public accounting experience and business consultants with a deep expertise in a broad range of industries and focus areas. We take a comprehensive approach to help clients navigate through internal audit, risk, and compliance activities. We work as a broader team to address a wide range of business needs across the organization.
Your Impact - Work with emerging growth companies and established enterprises (both publicly traded and privately held) on a wide variety of projects including Sarbanes-Oxley ("SOX") readiness and compliance, internal audit, and ERM.
- Assist companies with implementing and assessing the effectiveness of SOX compliance programs, including, but not limited to the following activities:
- Conducting risk assessments
- Conducting walkthroughs and documenting end-to-end business processes, identifying risks and key controls, using flowcharts and narratives
- Documenting and assessing the design and effectiveness of key controls
- Executing testing to validate the operating effectiveness of controls
- Evaluating controls deficiencies to determine impact and significance
- Identifying and implementing effective and efficient plans to remediate control deficiencies
- Summarizing and documenting results of work performed including management reporting
- Execute internal audit and ERM activities to support our client's risk management initiatives.
- Educate internal and external audiences on business process, risk, and control best practices.
- Create and deliver presentations on technical concepts, project work plans, delivery approach, milestones, and results to client stakeholders.
- Review team progress to ensure compliance with work program and professional standards.
- Identify, design and implement creative business solutions to continually improve the firm's methodology and approach.
- Understand the breadth of services offered by Risk & Regulatory, as well as MorganFranklin holistically, to be able to identify additional opportunities at our clients.
- Establish credibility as a trusted advisor.
Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Risk Management, or related field.
- 5+ years of professional services experience (public accounting or advisory firm) and/or internal controls and financial reporting experience with a Fortune 500 organization.
- Strong knowledge of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SEC reporting, and/or U.S. GAAP
- Demonstrated knowledge and ability to apply concepts related to internal controls, internal audit functions, accounting/audit practices, procedures, and reporting standards.
- Previous experience managing projects, including achievement of expected timelines, managing engagement economics (budgets to actuals), and effectively leading a team.
Preferred Qualifications - Masters in Accounting or MBA.
- CPA, CIA, CISA certification.
- Proven ability to lead, motivate, and build teams that deliver services and solutions that surpass client expectations.
- Experience executing and overseeing audits over the key domains of IT general controls (change management, access to programs and data, computer operations and systems development), as well as IT dependencies (segregation of duties, automated controls, key reports and interfaces).
- Knowledge of common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and accounting systems (i.e., Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Workday, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365).
- Flexibility to travel up to 25%.