Location: Remote Centric with travel to Hartselle, AL periodically
Key Responsibilities
Systems and process controls
- Review key business processes and systems (order to cash, procure to pay, payroll, financial close) for control gaps, errors, and access issues.
- Evaluate user access, segregation of duties, and change management in core systems.
- Document risks and controls in process narratives and risk and control matrices.
Automation and process improvement
- Partner with finance, operations, and IT to replace manual processes with automated, system-enforced controls.
- Use data analytics, such as Excel, SQL, or BI tools, to move from sample testing toward continuous monitoring.
- Advise on controls and audit trails when new systems and processes are selected and implemented.
Audit program and public-readiness
- Build a risk-based annual audit plan and an audit methodology, including work papers, templates, and reporting standards.
- Write clear audit reports with root causes and practical recommendations, and present them to leadership.
- Track management action plans through remediation and report status on a regular schedule.
- Coordinate with external auditors and, when needed, outside specialists on IT or testing.
Revenue assurance
- Reconcile contracts, orders, billing, and cash receipts to find unbilled, under-billed, mispriced, or uncollected revenue.
- Test pricing, discounts, credits, and write-offs against approved policy, and investigate unusual patterns.
- Quantify leakage, recommend fixes, and track recovery to closure.
Time-keeping and labor integrity
- Test timesheets and billable-hour records against supporting evidence such as schedules, project records, system logs, and approvals.
- Identify patterns of time padding, unapproved overtime, and policy violations, and handle findings fairly and discreetly.
- Recommend controls and system settings that improve accuracy, such as approval workflows, edit locks, and exception reports.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or information systems.
- 4 to 5 years of experience in internal audit, external audit, or controls and compliance, ideally across financial and operational areas.
- Hands-on experience testing controls, building work papers, and writing audit reports.
- Working knowledge of internal control frameworks, such as COSO, and of revenue, payroll, and procure-to-pay processes.
- Strong analytical skills, with advanced Excel and the ability to analyze large data sets to find anomalies.
- Ability to deliver difficult findings with tact, and to work with leaders and employees at all levels.
- Integrity, discretion, and sound judgment, including with sensitive matters such as time-keeping and employee conduct.
- Self-starter comfortable working independently and setting priorities in a fast-growing environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA or actively pursuing one.
- Big 4 or public accounting background, or experience at a high-growth or pre-IPO company.
- Experience with SOX 404 documentation and testing, or with a company preparing for an audit or IPO.
- Experience with SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or audit analytics tools.
- Experience with ERP, billing, and timekeeping or payroll systems, and with process automation.