Sox Analyst

* Highly acquisitive market leader in contracted logistics
- Hands on role, supporting the delivery of the UK SOX program
- Excellent career development opportunties
You will work within a small team, reporting to the Head of SOX UK & Ireland. This role offers excellent level of responsibility and exposure, and opens up a wealth of progression opportunties within the business.
The purpose of the role is to ensure my client have full SOX Compliance, adherence with relevant accounting policies throughout the business, and to improve quality & accuracy of our financial accounting within
This will include:
SOX Compliance
- Quarterly review of policies, process flows and procedures with the SOX Process Owners. Maintain and update the Risk Control Matrix.
- Maintain system for regular audit of SOX controls and walkthrough testing to ensure quality and compliance across all areas.
- Risk assessment & identifying control weaknesses, and areas where fraud is a risk
- Find opportunities where controls can be standardised, centralised and automated
- Creation of new analytics, metrics and reports for SOX reporting particularly around P2P
Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- Regular reviews of central and site balance sheet reconciliations, on Blackline.
- Ensure adherence to USGAAP accounting standards
- Communicate and provide feedback to Finance Managers thereby driving improvement in quality.
- Highlight any issues or risks to Controllership Management and help plan, monitor, and resolve those issues.
Other Work
- Help manage audits for UK companies within the Group, including statutory audit, SOX audit, internal audit.
- Ownership of some centrally managed key controls
- Assistance with general financial accounting queries and special projects