Senior Internal Controls Analyst

The Senior Internal Controls Analyst is a role within Owens Corning's Global Finance, Operations & Reporting (GFOR) responsible for driving internal controls awareness, knowledge, and compliance throughout the Company by contributing to the development and execution of department initiatives. This role will be tasked to drive controls testing approaches based on industry best practices to prevent a risk of a material misstatement as well as creating synergies by providing reliable data around testing coverage, results, and sustainability for business process controls testing coverage.

The position is suited to driven, curious individuals who are able to work independently and lead mid - large size projects. Qualified candidates will have a minimum of 1-3 years of accounting and finance experience, preferably in multi-national corporations. Public accounting experience is strongly preferred. Candidates should possess excellent communication and analytical skills and must demonstrate the ability to be successful in a fast-paced and dynamic, team-oriented environment.

1. Lead the overall assessment of the effectiveness of the control environment on a quarterly and annual basis to verify the control infrastructure in place is effective over financial reporting; this includes but is not limited to:
   
   
   
   • Perform design and operating effectiveness testing for SOX controls with some oversight.
   • Support testing key reports and Information Produced by the Entity.
   • Complete detailed and quality work-papers that includes corroborative evidence to support management testing conclusions within the expected deadlines.
   • Apply feedback or review comments from submitted work-papers and demonstrates continuous improvement in their documentation or testing.
   • Optimally communicate testing status, conclusions, and sharing knowledge with team members.
   • Conduct walkthrough meetings with control owners to understand the processes and gather evidence with some support.
   • Assess Service Organization SOC 1 Type II reports with some support.
   
   
   
   

1. Drive internal control awareness, knowledge, compliance, and excellence throughout the company to mitigate the risk of a material misstatement; this includes but is not limited to:
   
   
   
   • Develop and maintain relationships with leadership in Finance, Accounting, and Operations to ensure internal controls over financial reporting properly mitigate the risk of a material misstatement in an efficient manner.
   • Influence and manage stakeholder's expectations while maintaining independent view.
   • Continuously seek opportunities to learn key management testing processes, testing, framework, and methodology.
   • Draft and communicate control deficiencies and perform a root cause analysis with some support.
   • Understand and coach stakeholders on techniques to gain comfort over completeness and accuracy of data relied upon in the execution of controls.
   
   
   
   

Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related fields.
• Minimum of 1-3 years of finance, accounting, or prior internal controls experience required in lieu of degree.
• Experience within a public accounting firm, consulting audit firm, or internal audit preferred.
• Professional certifications (CPA, CMA, or CIA preferred) and big-four audit experience strongly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Understanding of SOX.
• Strong accounting and business acumen; brings a business lens to compliance.
• Strong understanding of financial statement risk and effective control design.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to work with colleagues across various geographies and functions.
• Organized, deliberate, and reliable in structuring work, and an effective problem solver.
• Dedication to ethical behavior and the ability to maintain objectivity.

Personal Characteristics:

• Goal oriented / Edge - Strives toward goals with decisiveness and determination. Demonstrates courage to take risks, demands excellence, and drives for results with speed. Faces into conflict, interacts with candor and addresses challenges with urgency.
• Integrity - Can be trusted to maintain financial integrity to the corporation, employees, and shareholders.
• Creativity - Strives for continuous and breakthrough improvement in business process and results; sets and encourages others to set continually higher goals; strives to achieve a best-practice approach; and takes and encourages others to take stands.
• Decision Making - Independently recognizes issues, problems, or opportunities, and determines whether action is needed; socializes ideas and judgmental decisions; is transparent and uses a risk-based approach when making tough calls.
• Elevates Performance - Accepts responsibility for outcomes of one's work; admits and learns from mistakes; refocuses efforts when appropriate.
• Self-Awareness - Continually assesses and appreciates the impact of own behavior upon others and the environment; adjusts behavior based upon understanding of own impact and desired outcomes.