Summary
About the Role
Your Key Responsibilities:
Support MMF Annual Audits (Internal & External):
- Understand MMF’s financial and IT controls environment; ability to understand impact of new systems and applications
- Contribute to streamlining MMF’s data flows, automations, interfaces with an ability to assess financial reporting risk
- Manage requests received from Auditors (Financial Controls and Compliance, KPMG, Internal Auditors, others)
- Develop knowledge of Model N and other MMF applications at a high-level to assess controls and business risk and monitor system updates
- Help to design/improve and maintain analytics of compliance activities
Controls Monitoring:
- Review evidence provided by MMF team aligns with the control requirements and NFCM
- Ensure SOX compliance by monitoring process and financial control activities for MMF functions
- Review authorization limits, approvers & perform Segregation of Duties (SOD) analysis for all MMF systems (Model N, Breakaway and others)
- Assess Impact of acquisitions, divestitures, and other material events on internal controls environment
- Prepare the review of external providers assessment (SOC 1)
Business Partnering:
- Partner with IT and FRA to understand risks of system updates, project implementations
- Support the legislative, regulatory, and industry changes implementation in compliant manner
- Partner with internal & external stakeholders to ensure compliance with NFCM and IT policies
Essential Requirements:
- MBA (Finance) / Computer Science/ Data Analytics/ any other equivalent degree; CISA/CISM preferred
- Ability to work collaboratively cross-functionally, particularly with Associate Director and Director levels, across the organization; communicating with internal stakeholders on monitoring and remediation
- Strong compliance orientation to ensure adherence to process requirements along with excellent attention to detail
- Quick learner with good self and task management skills
- Ability to prioritize and execute multiple assignments simultaneously to meet deadlines
- Ability to engage and consult with a continuum of stakeholders of varying levels to obtain information
Desirable Requirements:
- Strong written and oral communication skills with ability to question and gather information and insights
- MS Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio), Microsoft SharePoint, Teams & Planner)
- Project management, data flows, data visualization experience preferred
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