Internal Financial Controls Manager| SOX
Summary:
Our publicly-traded client, a Fortune 500 hospitality organization headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is seeking an Internal Controls Manager to join their newly created team! Reporting to the VP of Controls, The Internal Controls Manager will serve as part of the second line of defense, maintaining and enhancing the internal controls framework to ensure compliance with SOX and UK Corporate Governance Code standards as they evolve. This position involves working collaboratively across the organization to uphold a strong financial risk and control environment by providing independent assessments, sharing best practices, and ensuring thorough documentation, review, testing, and reporting of risk and control activities. The successful candidate will play a key role in enhancing the company’s control environment and contributing to executive-level reporting for the UK-based corporate office. This organization offers a collaborative work culture with exponential growth potential. Applicants with a solid audit backgrounds, especially Big 4 with SOX experience, are encouraged to apply!

Location: Charlotte, NC (Southwest – Airport area)
Work Setup: Hybrid (2 days remote, 3 days onsite)
Compensation: $120,000 - $130,000 annually (no bonus) plus annual raises and promotion opportunities after one year
Benefits for both roles:

• 4 weeks of Vacation/Sick Days!
• 13 paid Holidays and 3 half-day days
• Affordable health, vision, and dental coverage
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability benefits
• Discounts, wellness rewards, health coaching, and employee assistance programs
• Pet insurance coverage
• Tuition reimbursement and support for continuing education
• Commuter benefits
• Onsite gyms and medical clinic
• Extensive career advancement opportunities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the ongoing design and implementation of the Internal Controls framework.
• Manage a team of Internal Controls Analysts in execution of controls testing, monitoring etc.
• Ensure financial and accounting processes have appropriate controls to optimally manage control risk, assisting with the execution of risk assessments where necessary.
• Provide ongoing support and review to the organization’s largest and complex sectors as they document and operate Risk and Control Matrices (RACMs).
• Collaborate with process and controls owners to obtain process understanding, documenting the process flows and/or procedure documents.
• Evaluate control deficiencies and oversee remediation of those deficiencies.
• Identify & document best practice controls which can published across the organization.
• Develop guidance to support the organization with control compliance, such as evidence maintenance, job aids etc.
• Stay up to date on internal and external changes that may impact the design or operation of controls and partner with the appropriate stakeholders to make changes accordingly.
• Support training initiatives across the organization to improve awareness and understanding of internal control requirements.
• Partner with both internal and external audit teams to facilitate a streamlined and effective audit processes, when necessary.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across all levels of the organization to enhance the control environment through process optimization and automation.
• Respond to emerging regulatory updates/Corporate Governance Code update.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• CPA, CIA, FRM, or CRMP certification required
• 4-5 years of experience in a Big 4 public accounting audit role or a comparable environment with a focus on financial controls, SOX audits, and risk management.
• Recent experience in financial controls, audits, and SOX compliance for large publicly traded organizations ($3B+ revenue).
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP standards.
• Strong experience with Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Experience with SAP and HFM preferred.
• Familiarity with the UK Corporate Governance Code is preferred.

Category Code: JN001, JN005