Senior Compliance Analyst

Job title:

Senior Compliance Analyst

Company

Abbott

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION:Abbott Ireland Financial Services Cherrywood DublinAbbott’s EMEA Finance Shared Services centre commenced operations in Cherrywood, Dublin in October 2015. From this location the Finance Shared Services provides processing and expertise, in local languages, to Abbott divisions and affiliate companies across EMEA. The core services are in Record to Report, Order to Cash, Source to Pay and Master data management. The Financial Shared Services hub is part of Corporate Finance and has regional counterparts in the US and in Singapore.Purpose of Job:Compliance Analyst will be accountable to perform the following activities for Corporate Financial Services (CFS) in the EMEA Region

• SOX Testing & Remediation
• Control Environment Maintenance & Improvements
• Audit Coordination & Support
• Division Security Coordination Support
• Support various CFS initiatives and strategic programs

Minimum Education:

• BA, BS in Finance or Accounting or equivalent experience, CPA preferred

Minimum Experience:

• 2-3 years’ experience required, 2 of which in public accounting performing operational and financial audits, including SOX compliance work.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization
• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and meet deadlines in a timely manner
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel

Main Responsibilities:SOX Testing & Remediation

• Perform Management SOX testing
• Identify deficiencies and develop management action plans
• Manage the outreach, analysis, and memo documentation of applicable SOC 1 reports

Control Environment Maintenance & Improvements

• Enhance and maintain SOX documentation by working with process owners and shared service operations managers (e.g., flowcharts, risk assessments, etc.)
• Support management’s evaluations of internal control over financial reporting via the Archer tool
• Identify areas where internal controls can be optimized (e.g., shift toward preventive automated controls) and process improvements implemented
• Support enhanced compliance and testing of focus areas

Audit Team Coordination and Support

• Support internal and external audit teams surrounding CFS controls, as well as attendance all relevant walkthroughs
• Identify opportunities to advance the CFS control reliance strategy between Internal and External Audit teams
• Partially supervise third-party resource to ensure control environment is operating effectively and testing is appropriately documented

Division Security Coordinator Support

• Support the review and maintenance of regional system requests for segregation of duty conflicts across multiple ERPS
• Implement new mitigating controls and monitor the expiration of existing controls within SAP Environments

Support CFS Initiatives and strategic programs

• Support ad hoc control projects, including those arising from unique events, transactions, mergers, acquisitions and system implementations that impact CFS
• Support ERP deployments – Design of controls, segregation of duties (SOD) concerns and mapping users to roles to avoid SOD issues
• Support other compliance areas including master data governance
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities that support CFS, reporting managers and associated teams
• Support other initiatives outside of compliance that improve and streamline efforts within the CFS organization

The base pay for this position is N/AIn specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.JOB FAMILY: Accounting & ReportingDIVISION: IFO International FinanceLOCATION: Ireland
Dublin : Block G, Cherrywood, Cherrywood Business ParkADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:WORK SHIFT: Ie – Cw 37.5A (Ireland)TRAVEL: NoMEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: YesSIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Not Applicable

Expected salary

Location

Dublin

Job date

Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:05:41 GMT

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