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Abbott Senior Compliance Analyst in Dublin, Ireland
Abbott Ireland Financial Services Cherrywood Dublin
Abbott’s EMEA Finance Shared Services centre commenced operations in Cherrywood, Dublin in October 2015. From this location the Finance Shared Services provides processing and expertise, in local languages, to Abbott divisions and affiliate companies across EMEA. The core services are in Record to Report, Order to Cash, Source to Pay and Master data management. The Financial Shared Services hub is part of Corporate Finance and has regional counterparts in the US and in Singapore.
Purpose of Job:
Compliance Analyst will be accountable to perform the following activities for Corporate Financial Services (CFS) in the EMEA Region
SOX Testing & Remediation
Control Environment Maintenance & Improvements
Audit Coordination & Support
Division Security Coordination Support
Support various CFS initiatives and strategic programs
Minimum Education:
- BA, BS in Finance or Accounting or equivalent experience, CPA preferred
Minimum Experience:
2-3 years’ experience required, 2 of which in public accounting performing operational and financial audits, including SOX compliance work.
Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization
Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment
Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects
Ability to multi-task, prioritize and meet deadlines in a timely manner
Proficient with Microsoft Excel
Main Responsibilities:
SOX Testing & Remediation
Perform Management SOX testing
Identify deficiencies and develop management action plans
Manage the outreach, analysis, and memo documentation of applicable SOC 1 reports
Control Environment Maintenance & Improvements
Enhance and maintain SOX documentation by working with process owners and shared service operations managers (e.g., flowcharts, risk assessments, etc.)
Support management’s evaluations of internal control over financial reporting via the Archer tool
Identify areas where internal controls can be optimized (e.g., shift toward preventive automated controls) and process improvements implemented
Support enhanced compliance and testing of focus areas
Audit Team Coordination and Support
Support internal and external audit teams surrounding CFS controls, as well as attendance all relevant walkthroughs
Identify opportunities to advance the CFS control reliance strategy between Internal and External Audit teams
Partially supervise third-party resource to ensure control environment is operating effectively and testing is appropriately documented
Division Security Coordinator Support
Support the review and maintenance of regional system requests for segregation of duty conflicts across multiple ERPS
Implement new mitigating controls and monitor the expiration of existing controls within SAP Environments
Support CFS Initiatives and strategic programs
Support ad hoc control projects, including those arising from unique events, transactions, mergers, acquisitions and system implementations that impact CFS
Support ERP deployments – Design of controls, segregation of duties (SOD) concerns and mapping users to roles to avoid SOD issues
Support other compliance areas including master data governance
Perform other related duties and responsibilities that support CFS, reporting managers and associated teams
Support other initiatives outside of compliance that improve and streamline efforts within the CFS organization
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com
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