Supervisor, Internal Controls & Compliance

Role Purpose

Performs and monitors accounting activities in accordance with accounting principles and standards to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations laws and reporting requirements.

Location: Charlotte NC or Corning NY

Key Responsibilities

• Documents and compiles managements internal control assessment.
• Manages the completion of internal control and U.S. GAAP audits and associated risk assessments.
• Performs documentation and evaluation of company level controls as part of annual self-assessment.
• Develops written reports and presentations to communicate results and produce recommendations after reviewing results of internal and external audit work.
• Supervises staff in areas of control; provide direction based on general policies and management guidance; lead the centralized functional activity.
• Establishes operational objectives and assignments and delegates assignments to assigned staff.
• Ensures projects are completed on schedule and within budget; conduct briefings and participates in technical meetings for internal and external representatives concerning specific operations.
• Develop modify communicate and provide training on internal control policies.
• Develops solutions to a wide range of problems leveraging full knowledge of GAAP Corning policies and COSO Framework.
• Requires the ability to influence the thinking of or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations.
• Participate in integrated scoping of external audit efforts and management of Cornings preparedness for external audit procedures and deliverables to auditors.

Projects involved with

• Lead managements internal control assessment in accordance with Sarbanes Oxley Act including training coach network development documentation of results and management of issues and resolution.
• Direct interaction and coordination of activities of outsourced internal auditors in performance of managements annual assessment of internal controls and execution of testing.
• Assist Director with integration of internal and external audit scopes and extent of efforts.
• Manage deliverables to external auditors.
• Create interpret and communicate internal control policies and procedures; provide training and guidance to businesses and corporate customer

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Resource allocation of staff and internal/external auditors
• Exercising judgment in application and interpretation of internal control policies and procedures
• Decision making in hiring of new employees and staff development
• Exercising leadership in training initiative

Travel up to 20%

Experiences/Education - Required

• 4 to 8 years of audit or audit related work experience.
• Experience executing a range of internal audit procedures and risk assessments producing reports and insights based on results with supervision.
• Experience designing and validating proposed improvements to existing audit processes standards and tools under supervision.
• Experience helping produce part or all of audit result briefings to team to both internal and external audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to execute internal controls testing and synthesize results into actionable improvements and reports.
• Experience creating and delivering presentations for internal learning training events and/or business discussions.
• Experience coaching and providing regular feedback to team member
• Bachelors in Accounting or equivalent CPA is preferred

Experiences/Education - Desired

• Must be strong in organizational and planning skills
• Must have strong communication and influencing skills
• Experience with Financial Operational and Information Technology (IT) audits
• Digital acumen (data analytics Gen AI Power BI or other visualization software tool skills)