Internal Controls and Compliance Analyst
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in audit, consulting or a related industry including non-traditional audit such as use of data analytics and integration with accounting/business.
- Experience in leading projects and identifying process improvements.
- Experience in process, system, or automation.
Preferred qualifications:
- CIA, CPA, CFE, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Experience with US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) auditing standards, and control frameworks used in SOX (e.g., COSO).
- Experience in risk assessment, auditing, internal controls, control deficiency assessment and remediation, lead to report cycle.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage and coordinate multiple project assignments and multiple teams simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, accept ownership and accountability of the process, and deliver on commitments.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills with the ability to work with a wide variety of departments.
About the job
Financial Analysts ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. As a Financial Analyst, your work, whether it's modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.
Our team makes sure the company’s controls are designed and operating effectively to assure the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of Google Cloud's financial reporting. We assess the highest areas of risk in the business and work with teams to document control procedures to mitigate these risks. Once that’s done, we make sure everything works in real life the way it looks on paper.
As an Internal Controls and Compliance Analyst, you will work with a dedicated team of Googlers and vendor partners to deliver day to day activities for our SOX program and enhance our controls.
The name Google came from "googol," a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.
Responsibilities
- Identify and call attention to financial, operational, and compliance risks through assurance, consulting, and solutions management activity. Improve the effectiveness of Google Cloud’s governance, risk management, and financial statement related internal control activities.
- Work in cross-functional teams including Finance, Sales Operations, Engineering, and Product Management to help provide financial statement controls expertise and assist with integrated system requirements.
- Lead ad hoc analyses of financial and IT data to assist other areas of the Controllership function. Develop repeatable methods to ensure a consistent result and help develop an internal knowledge base.
- Execute audit programs, operational process reviews, and support the review of system implementations and other financial statement related risk areas in Google Cloud.
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