Associate Director Enterprise Risk Management

Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What You’ll Be Doing...

You will be part of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) team charged with the governance and administration of Verizon’s Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance program. In this role you will be overseeing policies, processes, people and controls to identify and mitigate risks associated with internal control over financial reporting.

This leader not only oversees the day-to-day compliance functions, but also thinks and acts strategically. As a subject matter expert, you will partner with business leaders and play a central role in translating SOX compliance requirements into internal Verizon control guidance and enforcing a strong control environment. This includes a focus on supporting the business, assessing controls, driving process improvements and transparent reporting to executive management.

Responsibilities

• Providing leadership in administering our SOX 404 program for assigned processes including; review of process and control documentation, management training, establishment of management test plans, assessment of management test results, and remediation plans.

• Managing the day to day operations of an ERM team, providing clear direction and expectations to meet compliance objectives.

• Providing guidance, coaching and development feedback to team members to help strengthen our team and support team members’ professional growth.

• Leading discussions with executive and senior management on key issues.

• Assessing the quality of management’s Business Process SOX control testing, and providing feedback to strengthen management’s testing capabilities.

• Developing and delivering training to stakeholders on Business Process SOX control requirements to enforce a strong and compliant control environment.

• Understanding both business process and IT related risks/controls to identify control efficiency opportunities, identify control gaps, and perform system scoping activities.

• Facilitating communication between our external auditors and control owners to ensure there is a clear understanding of audit requests and to identify solutions when issues arise.

• Preparing and presenting materials on status updates and SOX methodology.

• Leading pre-implementation reviews of new financial systems and associated tools to enforce compliance with SOX control requirements.

• Building relationships with business leaders, external auditors, and other Verizon compliance teams.

Where You’ll Be Working

This hybrid role will have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days as set by the manager.

What we’re looking for…

You’re a great listener and highly effective communicator. As an Associate Director on the team you will be expected to build trust and relationships with team members, internal control stakeholders, external auditors and other Verizon compliance teams. You know how to tailor your messaging based on the audience, translating technical topics into appropriate terms without losing their impact or meaning.

People know you for your strong leadership and the way you inspire teams to perform at their best. No stranger to working in a fast-paced environment, you convey a sense of urgency and manage multiple competing priorities with ease, never missing a deadline. You get personal satisfaction from analyzing problems and delivering solutions to improve business processes. You have effective organizational, project management, and interpersonal skills.

You’ll need to have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics, or four or more years of experience.

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

• A Professional certification (CPA, CMA, CIA, CISA, CFE, PMP.

• Six or more years of experience in Accounting/Finance; with a minimum 6+ years in a public accounting firm or large organization.

• Six or more years of hands-on experience addressing financial reporting controls.

• Six or more years of experience in developing and executing audit/test procedures.

• Six or more years of leadership experience directly managing teams.

• Extremely broad-based knowledge and experience with controls standards and frameworks.

• Advanced knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, best practices and testing procedures.

Even better if you have:

• A Master's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or Economics.

• Experience designing and implementing controls governance frameworks and compliance programs.

• Experience leveraging audit principles and methods to evaluate policies, processes and systems.

• Experience in resolving accounting/controls issues with national offices of Big 4 accounting firms.

• Working knowledge of digital finance, statistics, reporting and analytical tools.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

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