Financial Compliance Senior Analyst - Global Financial Compliance - TN

Purpose:
 
As part of the Global Financial Compliance team, the Financial Compliance Senior Analyst will assist with the monitoring and improvement activities related to Sylvamo’s comprehensive Internal Controls and Financial Policies framework, ensuring that efficient and effective financial policies, procedures and controls are in place.

The principal responsibilities of the Global Financial Compliance department are:

• Creation, maintenance, standardization and implementation of financial policies, along with providing related guidance and training as required by Company personnel
• Establishing and maintaining the Internal Control framework for the Company’s financial processes, ensuring that the framework aligns with the Company’s risk tolerance profile, and monitoring the framework’s effectiveness & efficiency
• Oversight & management of the Company’s compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, including the annual risk assessment, scoping, evaluations, analysis, documentation, reviews and quarterly 302 compliance assessments
• Coordination and oversight of the Balance Sheet Review process
• Coordination and oversight of the Company’s Quarterly Representation (i.e. QR-16) process
• Monitoring of Segregation of Duties and High Risk Sensitive Access for the primary ERP system (i.e. SAP) and other select high risk systems

Key Accountabilities:

• The following are typical of the responsibilities associated with the Financial Compliance Senior Analyst position; all require the ability to directly and effectively interact with personnel at various organization levels of the Businesses (both domestic U.S. and International), Finance, Corporate Staff Groups, Internal/External Audit, third party service providers, governmental agencies, vendors, and customers.
• Safety: Engage in safe work environment in order to support the company safety objectives and goals
• Assist with maintenance of Sylvamo’s comprehensive Financial Policy framework, including administering our financial policies repository, issuing, tracking and communicating policy revisions, aiding in research on financial policy questions
• Support Global Financial Compliance training efforts including:
• Assisting with development of training materials on policy and internal control matters
• Assisting with new course roll-outs, communications, language translation and other similar efforts
• Tracking training attendance to ensure compliance with specific policy and control requirements.
• Participate in the annual SOC-1 report review process, including but not limited to: tracking and following up on the status of reports with process owners and/or the 3rd party providers as necessary and communicating status updates to management
• Assist with Financial Control Assessments: help administer the AuditBoard tool and initiate the assessments, assist in the tracking and follow-up on the results of the control assessment reviews
• Own and administer the Global Financial Compliance team site and work with other team members to ensure it contains correct and up-to-date information
• Perform administrative tasks including but not limited to coordinating compliance meetings set up, documenting meeting notes, tracking action items to resolution
• Manage the Delegation of Authority processes including documentation, maintenance, oversight, and testing
• Participate in tasks, assignments, projects, and department & Company initiatives as may become necessary

Knowledge & Experience:
 

• Preferred candidate should have:
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or other business related area
• 8-10 years of combined work experience across various disciplines including finance, accounting, business analysis, internal/external audit
  
• Proven experience in researching and defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts and drawing analysis conclusions
• Proficiency in applicable technology such as MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.
• Internal controls experience (could be in the form of Internal Audit Experience)
• Knowledge of SharePoint and SOX/internal controls management software administration
• Experience with learning and training development.

The position should be viewed as a development opportunity in preparation for other finance positions within the company.
 
Competencies: 

• Integrity & Trust
• Ethics & Value
• Drive for Results
• Organization
• Priority Setting
• Perseverance
• Problem Solving
• Time Management
• Communication & Presentations Skills
• Learning on the Fly
• Dealing with Ambiguity
• Standing Alone
• Self-development
• Technical learning
• Functional/technical skills