Senior Financial Analyst, Accounting and Internal Controls
Senior Financial Analyst, Accounting and Internal Controls
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Sappi North America headquartered in Boston is a subsidiary of Sappi Limited (JSE) a global company headquartered in Johannesburg South Africa with more than 13000 employees and manufacturing operations on three continents in seven countries and customers in over 100 countries around the world. We are a leading global provider of sustainable woodfiber products and solutions. The success of our four diversified businesses high quality Coated Printing Papers Specialised Cellulose Release Papers and Specialty Packaging is driven by strong customer relationships best-in-class people and advantaged assets products and services. Our high qualityCoated Printing Papers including McCoy Opus Somerset and Flo are the key platform for premium magazines catalogs books and high-end print advertising. We are a leading manufacturer ofSpecialised Celluloseused in a wide range of products including textile fibers and household goods and one of the worlds leading suppliers ofRelease Paperswith our Ultracast and Classics lines for the automotive fashion and engineered films industries. Our Specialty Packagingproducts such as LusterPrint and LusterCote represent an important asset in the food packaging and labelling industries. Customers rely on Sappi for high technical operational and market expertise; products and services delivered with consistently high quality and reliability; and state-of-the-art and cost-competitive assets and innovative spirit.
Position (job title): Senior Financial Analyst Accounting and Internal Controls
Department: Finance
Work Site: Boston (Sappi North America HQ)
Overview
Sappi North America is looking for the next key member of its financial team as Senior Financial Analyst. Reporting to the Companys Assistant Corporate Controller this position is responsible for supporting the Assistant Controller in management of the corporate risk management activities including internal controls. This candidate should have the ability to clearly and concisely document and effectively communicate risk management issues to finance and non-finance personnel. Our ideal candidate is a highly motivated results-oriented financial leader who has the ability to improve our governance and compliance activities. This person should have proven interpersonal skills that allow the individual to influence and interact at all levels of the organization. The ideal candidate should have a proven track record of creating a culture of collaboration and teamwork between finance and operations.
Essential Functions
- Support the Companys internal control function. Develop implement and manage the plan for completing the annual self assessment process. Drive strategic change in the internal control function to ensure adherence to policies and internal control frameworks.
- Support certain risk management functions of the North America region including annual fraud risk assessment and semiannual risk register process. Design and implement a self assessment process for operational controls that complements these risk assessment processes.
- Work with process owners and internal auditors to identify understand and remediate internal control issues. Provide support to process owners regarding the development and implementation of policies and procedures while defining appropriate action plans to address identified internal control weaknesses and improvement opportunities.
- Coordinate monitoring reporting and improvements for segregation of duties conflicts as reported in SAP SOD tool. Collaborate with the Business Process Engineers to implement improvements.
- Support the Companys activities for Selling General and Administrative costs. Includes coordinating budgets and forecasts for the cost center managers and accounting and closing activities.
- Assist FP&A team with corporate and other accounting-related items during annual budget and periodic forecasting cycles.
- Perform accounting and reporting for the Allentown facility and support the budgeting/forecasting processes as needed
- Identify and implement efficiencies and process improvements
- Provide support for ad hoc operational and accounting tasks and initiatives as assigned
Job Specifications/Requirements:
- Understanding of control frameworks (COSO COBIT) and ability to think critically to properly interpret and implement control improvements across the Company. Solid knowledge of accounting and finance principles required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills needed.
- Ability to work within matrixed cross functional teams to deliver results on business initiatives.
- Clear understanding of the capabilities of integrated information systems (SAP preferred) to drive efficiencies and improvements in the availability and use of financial information.
- Detail oriented financial professional with high energy and a sense of urgency to achieve results.
Salary is determined by a number of factors including the value of the job to the organization market forces internal equity and skills brought to the job.
HR Contact for Questions: Kathleen Porazzo
Contact Information:
Sappi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements Sappi complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Intern
