Responsibilities
- Assist in identifying, analyzing, and assessing risk throughout Mercury
- Scope and plan audits across finance and accounting functions.
- Conduct process walkthroughs and execute audit testing to confirm the design and operational effectiveness of internal controls
- Assess compliance with Mercury’s compliance obligations (regulatory reporting, financial reporting)
- Socialize, document, and report audit issues identified
- Collaborate with teams to develop appropriate action plans, track audit issue remediation, and conduct issue follow up testing
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Have experience scoping and planning new, complex audits
- Have experience leading audit teams and coaching team members
- Be comfortable conducting walkthroughs, creating audit test plans, and executing internal controls testing
- Have experience in leading finance and accounting audits
- Knowledge and experience auditing SOX, GAAP, IFRS and other regulatory reporting requirements.
- Have experience working with financial services companies, and have a working knowledge of laws, regulations and risk management standards for financial services
- Have the ability to quickly grasp and understand complex business processes
- Be able to build relationships/partnerships and work cross-functionally to drive time-sensitive deliverables, issues tracking, and reporting
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Be able to manage their own schedule to ensure deadlines are met
- Be a self-starter, someone who likes to innovate and think about how we can do things differently to be more efficient and effective
Nice to Have
- Obtained related certifications (CISA, CIA, CPA, etc)
Additional Information
- We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT. As part of the evaluation process we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound on January 22, 2024. [Please see the independent bias audit report covering our use of Covey for more information.]
