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ID #39894849
State Wisconsin
City Madison
Job type Contract
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Beacon Hill Technologies
Showed 2022-04-30
Date 2022-04-29
Deadline 2022-06-28
Category Et cetera
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IT SOX Compliance Analyst-100% REMOTE

Wisconsin, Madison, 53715 Madison USA

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IT Compliance Analyst

MUST HAVE EITHER SAP ERP OR AUDITBOARD EXPERIENCE

  • Solid understanding of SOX controls, risks, and compliance requirements and auditing processes related to IT, financial, and those specific to manufacturing and distribution
  • Proven capacity to understand complex technical components, collaborate with technical peers, and present and explain technical information with others (technical or non-technical) in a way that establishes rapport, persuades, or provides greater understanding
  • Excellent organizational, consultative and communication skills, analytical ability, decisiveness, strong judgment, and the ability to work effectively with customers, IT management, staff and vendors. (Project management & facilitation skills)
  • Ability to multi-task and manage many simultaneous activities, providing leadership with relevant updates and needed escalation points
  • Demonstrated experience working with Microsoft Excel, Sharepoint and Teams
  • Experience with compliance related software (preferably AuditBoard), or the ability to quickly learn and utilize compliance software functionality
  • Preferred: Experience with SAP and functional knowledge of databases and operation systems and their associated security structures

Job Summary

Do you have an inquisitive mind and would like to build your technical and business acumen while influencing compliance among a variety of teams within a global organization? We are seeking an IT Compliance Analyst to track, analyze, and improve IT control compliance and effectiveness across the organization. This analyst role will implement and coordinate processes to ensure compliance and gather, analyze, and report data documenting control processes that impact IT functions related to financial reporting. The analyst will coordinate efforts across teams as well as vendors to ensure audit and compliance requirements are met within accepted timelines and will identify control gaps to ensure a timely implementation of improvements or corrective action. This person will also be involved with developing and delivering training and communications to ensure an understanding of IT control responsibilities.

The ideal candidate will have direct experience with IT audits, a solid understanding of SOX requirements, strong project management and organizational skills, and some functional knowledge or experience with SAP and associated interfaces and infrastructure components.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

  • Support the ongoing compliance needs related to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulations and other policies relative to IT functions
  • Work directly with internal and external auditors and appropriate IT/business teams to gather evidence and documentation required
  • Document processes and controls and regularly track control performance and effectiveness with the aim to identify gaps and introduce improvements
  • Assist the IT organization and applicable business teams in remediation or mitigation of risk, and compliance of regulatory requirements
  • Work with architecture and development teams in recommending solutions or alternatives for best practices that align with compliance regulations
  • Interact with IT teams, business teams, and internal/external auditors to communicate, remediate, or mitigate areas of risk, as appropriate
  • Will frequently need to lead and facilitate meetings, run workshops, and give presentations.
  • Conduct compliance assessments to ensure new applications/systems are not introducing new compliance issues to the environment
  • Develop training and awareness materials and conduct required training around regulations that affect IT and impacted business units, to promote the need to comply with regulatory requirements
  • Create or provide input to policy design to convey compliance requirements and liaise with stakeholders related to financially significant systems and processes
  • Act as a subject matter expert on SOX IT compliance to the wider business and the controls required to ensure compliance

Education and Experience Profile

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Management field or equivalent education required.
  • Preferred 3-5 years of work experience in IT or finance, preferably related to process improvement efforts, compliance, security, or service management.
  • Solid understanding SOX controls, risks, and compliance requirements and auditing processes.
  • Excellent consultative and communication skills, analytical ability, decisiveness, strong judgment, and the ability to work effectively with customers, IT management, staff and vendors.
  • Demonstrated experience working with Microsoft Excel, Sharepoint/Teams or other collaboration software.
  • Experience with compliance related software, or the ability to quickly learn compliance software functionality

Required Skills

  • Natural ability to be authoritative, communicate clearly, completely and concisely, as well as have a comfort level in providing updates at all levels of the organization.
  • Excellent analytical, oral, written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Ability to logically approach a problem from definition through resolution. Ability to define a root cause analysis of an issue and explain causes, contributors and resolutions to customers and other team members.
  • Proven capacity to understand complex technical components and collaborate with technical peers.
  • Ability to effectively exercise tact, discretion, judgement and diplomacy when interacting and/or negotiating with internal and external customers, and senior management.
  • Ability to present and explain technical information in a way that establishes rapport persuades others, and gains understanding
  • Strong collaboration and influencing skills are required. The successful candidate must have the ability to persuade and build consensus cross-functionally as an evangelist in a team oriented fashion. Must be able to inspire and motivate the organization regarding compliance needs across IT and within the business.
  • Ability to make decisions quickly with on available information and take action performing proper risk and issues management.
  • Needs to be autonomous, have initiative, and leadership skills to promote compliance.
  • Able to discuss compliance needs, and to challenge and clarify when appropriate. Ability to listen to and respond to concerns or needs from staff as well as customers/business partners.
  • Solid understanding of SOX compliance processes - IT, financial, and those specific to manufacturing and distribution
  • Ability to multi-task and track many simultaneous activities
  • Proven skills to effectively facilitate meetings and share on-screen information with virtual participants

Beacon Hill is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength diversity brings to the workplace. Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Company Profile:

Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs.

Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles.

Learn more about Beacon Hill Staffing Group and our specialty divisions, Beacon Hill Associates, Beacon Hill Financial, Beacon Hill HR, Beacon Hill Legal, Beacon Hill Life Sciences and Beacon Hill Technologies by visiting www.beaconhillstaffing.com

We look forward to working with you.

Beacon Hill. Employing the Future (TM)

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