Risk and Controls Specialist
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in management consulting, or a project management-related function.
- Experience in of Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Experience in internal controls and conducting risk assessments.
Preferred qualifications:
- 3 years of experience in audit, consulting or related industries including non-traditional audit skills such as use of data analytics and integration with accounting/ business.
- Experience in US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) auditing standards and control frameworks used in SOX (e.g., COSO).
- Experience in the following areas, risk assessment, auditing, internal controls, deficiency assessment and remediation, guide to report cycle.
- Experience in developing test strategy/approach and testing of ITGCs, ITACs and IPEs.
- Experience in CIA/CPA/CISA.
About the job
At Google, data drives all of our decision-making. As part of the Finance Business Intelligence team, you will use data to inform business and product decisions across the company. Using your technical skills, business acumen and creativity, you will build tools to automate reporting and generate insight that will allow clients to quickly and accurately see how our key business products and processes are performing. Previous experience managing finance systems projects, with emphasis on providing business intelligence and data driven insight through reporting, will have equipped you well for this role. You’ll be involved in projects from inception to delivery, ensuring that your reporting delivers high-quality and relevant data to intelligently grow our business. You will also have extensive knowledge of key financial systems, such as Oracle and Hyperion, and experience working with a range of other business intelligence tools and platforms.
This job is on our Internal Compliance and Assurance team. Our role is to protect, guide and grow Google’s investment in Cloud. We design and maintain policies to provide assurance that Cloud transactions are signed and approved by authorized employees. We implement and test controls that mean the data used on our financial reporting is complete, accurate, timely and reliable. We work both on paper, documenting procedures and requirements, and in real life, testing that work is performed effectively. You will help us manage our Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) procedures with counterparts in Alphabet Finance, meeting relevant deadlines while providing sufficient transparency and assurance.
Responsibilities
- Support the annual SOX program, support process owners on requirements and timeline, owning annual SOX process narrative refresh.
- Document and maintain focus view on processes rather than product view, collaborating with process/control owners, SOX, Engineering Compliance and SOX auditors.
- Ensure SOX activities are effective, preparing control owners and providing timely support for walkthroughs and testing, performing deficiency assessments and partnering with control owners on remediation plans.
- Identify and call attention to financial, operational, and compliance risks. Identify and support the implementation of mitigating controls. Develop approach to maintain design and operating effectiveness of controls.
- Identify and assess control deficiencies, perform root cause/gap analyses on existing processes to target areas for improvement. Provide suggestions for management to remediate deficiencies.
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