Senior Specialist, Internal Controls

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX

As the Senior Specialist, Internal Controls, you will partner with cross-functional leaders to proactively identify, assess and manage risks and have the exciting opportunity to grow the Company’s inaugural Risk and Controls team. In addition to being the first point of contact with everything related to risk and controls, you will be advising the business on SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Act requirements and be the conduit between cross-functional stakeholders.

Depending on the day, you will be working on several different projects

• Advising the business on control design by striking a balance between operational concerns and compliance needs
• Assisting in control certification monitoring and building out the new management SOX testing program
• Partnering with the business to roll out end-to-end control processes – e.g., ideation to implementation

This role is based out of our North Vancouver office. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

Meet your future team

The Finance Transformation, Risk and Controls (FTRC) team partners closely with various parts of the business to initiate, manage, and provide oversight of initiatives that enable Finance to elevate and achieve its strategic goals and objectives. FTRC also serves as the conduit between different Finance teams and project teams that are external to Finance. We are a group of passionate people with a diverse set of skills and backgrounds (ex-consultants, auditors, project managers, business and implementation analysts) that allow us to initiate and deliver process and system improvements for the organization.

If you were the Senior Specialist, Internal Controls, here are some of the core activities you would be doing

• As a member of second-line of defense (2LoD), coordinating SOX program activities that includes walkthroughs, updating process flowcharts and management testing
• Assisting with SOX scoping of new processes and subsequent design of controls and processes
• Providing training and coaching to the business on SOX requirements, baseline control evidence requirements and standards
• Identifying where there are gaps between current business process and expected design, leading the evaluation of ways to address those gaps
• Ensuring best practices and process optimization and make sure control processes are embedded in the day-to-day and are not just “ticking the box”
• Working closely with the internal and external partners to ensure planned remediations stay on track
• Holding stakeholders (at all levels) accountable to committed timelines and remediation efforts
• Performing design assessment of SOX-critical system and process changes to ensure that controls are built-in to the design prior to Production deployment

Are you our next Senior Specialist, Internal Controls?

• You have a bachelor’s degree required (Accounting / Finance preferred)
• You have 4+ years in audit and/or risk and control advisory; with 2+ years being a dedicated team member as a senior/experienced associate
• You have big 4 or national firm advisory experience preferred but not required
• You have a strong knowledge of Finance and Accounting principles required
• You have demonstrated experience as an auditor or analyst in a highly regulated SOX environment is required
• You have experience reviewing, documenting and assessing controls from a third-line or second-line perspective is a must
• You have experience in collaborating with both internal audit and external audit teams
• You have a CPA or CIA and/or any other auditing or finance related designations
• You have CISA and/or any other Information technology focused designations
• You are a great communicator who can effectively build healthy and collaborative working partnerships with Finance leaders and team members and other cross-functional teams
• You have experience in developing reports for analysis and decision-making, with a strong aptitude for spreadsheets and visual diagrams (e.g., flowcharts, PowerPoint presentations, etc.).
• You can effectively influence actions from stakeholders at all levels.
• You have a drive to learn and participate.
• You are adaptable and a forward-thinker.
• You have solid knowledge of ERP systems and associated business processes (e.g., order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, record-to-report) – knowledge and experience in S/4 Hana is a plus.
• You can step in and take charge with minimum instruction.
• You can prioritize and manage multiple tasks within tight deadlines.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and exceptional attention to detail.
• You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions.
• You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity.…