The Company is looking to evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls, recommend process improvements, and standardize work practices within the Finance organization to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) rules and federal regulations.
Requirements
- Understanding in accounting and auditing, required.
- Understanding in IT general controls and application controls, preferred.
- Understanding in financial reporting and IT risks, processes, and controls, including COSO and IT control frameworks, preferred.
- Experience and understanding of Sarbanes-Oxley Act 404 controls, preferred.
- Experience and understanding of investigative and root cause analysis approaches, preferred.
- Strong computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite products, required.
- Knowledge of IT Systems such as Oracle, preferred.
Responsibilities
- Train, influence, and marshal SOX business and IT control owners and coordinators, and senior management stakeholders across all of Con Edisons affiliate businesses.
- Perform all oversight, execution and governance duties of the SOX Program Office in an effort to comply with relevant SOX requirements.
- Support the annual process to review and update the Companys SOX process documentation (e.g., business process and IT control narratives, risk and control matrices, and process flowcharts).
- Establish requirements and periodic reporting processes to confirm that SOX control owners, business process owners, and coordinators perform all required duties in support of the SOX Program Management Office.
- Track the status and remediation of any control deficiencies, significant deficiencies, or material weaknesses and act as Finances liaison to Auditing and the external auditor on all SOX testing matters.
- Coordinate process mapping and quality assurance reviews of financial controls to help identify gaps and improvement opportunities and support efforts to rationalize and seek automation opportunities within the SOX control environment.
- Participate in the establishment of new SOX systems to assist and review control design and documentation.
Other
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills, required.
- Experience collaborating and engaging with large and diverse group of stakeholders, required.
- Ability to present information and successfully convey a point of view in a clear and concise fashion, required.
- Ability to deal with conflicts, required.
- Must be able and willing to travel within Company service territory, as needed.
- The selected candidate will be assigned a System Emergency Assignment (i.e., an emergency response role) and will be expected to work non-business hours during emergencies, which may include nights, weekends, and holidays.
