Reporting to the compliance director for source to pay (direct & indirect), this role will be providing compliance guidance, working with the control owners (finance & operations) to ensure sox documentation is current and per hp standards, sox control oversight supporting quality review of process documentation (sox 404 doc, flow, risk & control matrix), providing support and expertise to control owners for remediation or new key control development and reporting status of sox key controls across the supply chain owned areas.
*_ responsibilities: _*
- provides complex, financial analysis for a financial function or a business in the area of compliance & controls for the source to pay area (both direct and indirect)
- establishes and maintains relationships with business leaders to guide and influence decision-making.
- prepares and provides sox status metrics and status to the source to pay control and process owners.
- provides guidance on key controls and sox requirements
- may perform quality reviews associated with control documentation and/or evidence
- supports policy and process improvement and identifies opportunities for compliance improvement
- identifies issues and proposes solutions.
- represents finance on cross
- functional teams.
- provides mentoring and guidance to analysts.
*_ education and experience required: _*
- first level university degree with a focus in accounting or business; advanced degree or accounting certification (e.g., cpa, mba) preferred.
- supply chain or inventory knowledge is helpful
- typically 4+ years of experience as an auditor or accounting analyst.
- typically experienced in more than one finance function
- able to work across time zones
*_ knowledge and skills: _*
- strong understanding of accounting principles, compliance and controls.
- strong analytical skills
- sox flow diagram is helpful
- process improvement (yellow/greenbelt) understanding is helpful
- dashboard/ power bi skills are helpful
- comfortable speaking with non finance partners (eg operations)
- strong communication and influencing skills.
- excellent teamwork skills
- good business acumen
- attention to detail
- proactive
- efficient