Financial Assurance Supervisor - São Caetano do Sul/SP

Description

Hybrid: This position requires you to work on-site 3 times a week (Tue to Thu)

The Role

Controllership's mission is to serve as a Strategic Business Partner, bringing timely and insightful decisions to all strategic and tactical matters as they related to SEC requirements, accounting, audit/SOX compliance and financial analyses, leveraging financial systems and processes that increase visibility, improve efficiency, shorten decision cycle times, and reinforce financial integrity and accountability.

The Financial Assurance team is primarily responsible for executing the activities for assessing the Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) and managing SOX & non-SOX reporting requirements, while providing expertise and driving effective risk management over financial reporting. The group collaborates with the regional Controllers, business units and external auditors when planning, testing, reviewing and assessing financial reporting and disclosure controls.

• Supervises key internal controls and SOX & non-SOX compliance activities, including development and communication of SOX program guidance and methodology, monitoring of due dates and review of deliverables according to the program's schedule, conducting and participating in walkthroughs, and performing tests of design and operational effectiveness for in-scope controls.
• Performs detailed review and provides feedback to testers regarding procedures and documentation supporting the SOX compliance program (process flowcharts, risk assessments, test plans, test documentation, etc.).
• Develops a detailed understanding of GM's processes and systems in order to identify potential accounting risks and issues, control gaps, and opportunities to streamline processes and controls.
• Assessing control deficiencies, including agreement with control owners on root cause, any mitigating controls, impact analysis, and remediation action plans
• Promotes and monitors process improvement, modernization and time savings initiatives.
• Builds and maintains effective working relationships with business partners across and outside the organization.
• Supports the manager on recruiting, training, developing and establishing work assignments for a team of analysts.
• Provides timely feedback and supports professional growth of team members.
• Completes special assignments as required.

• Bachelor's Degree: Accounting, Business or related fields
• Advanced or Fluent English. Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Sufficient technical background in audit, internal controls and reporting (internal or external)
• Demonstrated ability to work and lead with minimal supervision on unstructured assignments
• Excellent team building, planning, change management and leadership skills
• Microsoft Office skills
• Innovation mindset
• Demonstrated problem solving ability and ability to resolve issues under tight deadlines
• Ability to prioritize assignments / projects and multi-task within time constraints
• Ability to network and collaborate cross-functionally
• High level of understanding of business operations
• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills and demonstrated commitment to teamwork

• MBA or Masters of Science degree in business field
• CRC (Regional Council of Accounting) registration
• Spanish language skills (spoken/written) preferred
• Experience managing people and leading teams