Title:  Manager Internal Controls

About Us:

Stericycle is a U.S. based business-to-business services company and leading provider of compliance-based solutions that protects people and brands, promotes health and well-being, and safeguards the environment. Since our founding over 30 years ago, we have grown from a small start-up in medical waste management into a leader across a range of increasingly complex and highly regulated arenas, serving healthcare organizations and commercial businesses of every size. Every day, we help our customers solve complex challenges by safely managing materials that could otherwise spread disease, contaminate the environment, or compromise one’s identity.

Join us on our mission to protect health and well-being in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.

Position Purpose:

The Manager Internal Controls will be responsible for defining and implementing a leading practice internal control environment and driving a control conscious and compliant organization.

Key Job Activities:

Support the full management of internal controls over financial reporting cycle, including annual top-down scoping and risk assessment and establishment of Risk and Controls Matrices, including annual documentation refresh and design evaluation.

Support the controls remediation program with efficient and effective tracking and reporting of deficiencies through remediation and Internal Audit testing / monitoring.

Perform self-testing and continuous controls monitoring to help accounting teams mature control operation. This includes coaching, mentoring and training of accounting personnel.

Collaborate with other mega processes to assure leading practice internal control over financial reporting (i.e. automated, preventive, continuous controls monitoring environment).

Establish and maintain a continuous improvement culture/posture including establishing methodologies, prioritization, influencing and sponsoring initiatives originating from the controllership and active leadership/participation/execution on broader corporate/business unit initiatives.  More specifically, End-to-End Global Process Owners and Leads interaction especially as it relates to Internal Control Over Financial Reporting.

Work on special projects identified by senior management to find strategic solutions to issues facing a growing international company. This includes participation in control design / redesign work due to transactions.

Develop future-state process flow diagrams and risk-control matrices as part of the Company’s implementation of a Global SAP system.

Assist management with remediation plan development, execution and support for control owners.

Work with the BU/region and Internal Audit to remediate internal control deficiencies.

Education:

Required Education: Good Honours degree.

Financial Qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) or Internal Audit Qualification (IIA, CIA).

Experience (EMEAA):

Big 4 background preferable

Experience of working in multinational and preferably with a US ultimate parent

Experience in SOX testing and Internal Controls (7 years+)

Experience of managing different stakeholders across all business fields

Must be organised, efficient, keen to learn and enthusiastic, striving to improve processes and encourage positive change across the business.

Looks for better ways of doing things, and proactively takes ownership to see things through, working independently to achieve and implement change

Excellent communication skills and ability to present clearly and concisely to a small audience.

Analytical thinking and attention to detail.

Ability to analyse data in spreadsheets and presenting information concisely

Excellent time-management and organisational skills with ability to prioritise competing deadlines.

Flexible and open to change, able to cope with a fast moving and rapidly changing business.

Drive and enthusiasm with the desire to develop within the organisation, as wells as developing and mentoring other team members.

Detailed and methodical attitude towards problem resolution to ensure accurate reconciliations are performed.

Experience of implementing and improving financial systems including broader ERP. SAP would be advantageous.

Certifications and/or Licenses:

Benefits:

Stericycle offers you:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Insurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Access to SteriCares, our employee support fund
• Stericycle University – Our online library of self-development & learning
• Annual performance related pay review.
• Referral Scheme (Earn by introducing people in your network to the Stericycle family)
• Flu voucher
• Eye Test voucher
• And more…

Disclaimer:

The above description is meant to provide a summary of the nature and level of work being performed; it should not be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and requirements of the job. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, and it does not constitute any right or guarantee of employment condition. This position is open to people with disabilities. Stericycle will consider requests for workplace accommodations for protected physical or mental limitations in accordance with its human resources and risks prevention policies and local laws. To the extent permissible under local law, and consistent with business necessity, Stericycle reserves the right to modify the content formally or informally, either verbally or in writing, at any time with or without advance notice.