Abbott Ireland Financial Services Cherrywood Dublin
Abbott’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
1. SOX Testing & Remediation
2. Control Environment Maintenance & Improvements
3. Audit Coordination & Support
4. Division Security Coordination Support
5. Support various CFS initiatives and strategic programs
Minimum Education:
6. BA, BS in Finance or Accounting or equivalent experience, CPA/ACCA/ACA preferred, however would consider part qualified.
Minimum Experience:
7. 2-3 years relevant industry experience would be an added advantage.
8. Experience in SOX compliance is essential for the role.
9. Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization
10. Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment
11. Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects
12. Ability to multi-task, prioritize and meet deadlines in a timely manner
13. Proficient with Microsoft Excel
Main Responsibilities:
SOX Testing & Remediation
14. Perform Management SOX testing
15. Identify deficiencies and develop management action plans
16. Manage the outreach, analysis, and memo documentation of applicable SOC 1 reports
Control Environment Maintenance & Improvements
17. Enhance and maintain SOX documentation by working with process owners and shared service operations managers (e.g., flowcharts, risk assessments, etc.)
18. Support management’s evaluations of internal control over financial reporting via the Archer tool
19. Identify areas where internal controls can be optimized (e.g., shift toward preventive automated controls) and process improvements implemented
20. Support enhanced compliance and testing of focus areas
Audit Team Coordination and Support
21. Support internal and external audit teams surrounding CFS controls, as well as attendance all relevant walkthroughs
22. Identify opportunities to advance the CFS control reliance strategy between Internal and External Audit teams
23. Partially supervise third-party resource to ensure control environment is operating effectively and testing is appropriately documented
Division Security Coordinator Support
24. Support the review and maintenance of regional system requests for segregation of duty conflicts across multiple ERPS
25. Implement new mitigating controls and monitor the expiration of existing controls within SAP Environments
Support CFS Initiatives and strategic programs
26. Support ad hoc control projects, including those arising from unique events, transactions, mergers, acquisitions and system implementations that impact CFS
27. Support ERP deployments – Design of controls, segregation of duties (SOD) concerns and mapping users to roles to avoid SOD issues
28. Support other compliance areas including master data governance
29. Perform other related duties and responsibilities that support CFS, reporting managers and associated teams
30. Support other initiatives outside of compliance that improve and streamline efforts within the CFS organization