Specialist - Financial Systems Internal Control

WHO YOU ARE:

Zinnia is seeking a Financial Systems Internal Controls Specialist to help strengthen the internal control environment across our financial systems and related business processes.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Lead process walkthroughs with accounting, finance, technology, and business stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain process narratives, flowcharts, standard operating procedures, data-flow diagrams, and risk and control matrices.
• Evaluate whether controls are appropriately designed to prevent or detect errors, unauthorized activity, and incomplete or inaccurate financial processing.
• Perform tests of control design and operating effectiveness.
• Develop test procedures, validate testing populations, select samples, inspect evidence, document exceptions, and prepare testing conclusions.
• Evaluate control exceptions, perform root-cause analysis, and assist control owners with developing sustainable remediation plans.
• Track remediation activities and perform follow-up testing to confirm corrective actions are operating effectively.
• Support internal and external audits by coordinating walkthroughs, evidence requests, testing inquiries, and remediation updates.
• Participate in financial system implementations, integrations, upgrades, and process changes to ensure control requirements are incorporated into the design.
• Review system roles, approval workflows, configurations, data conversions, and testing results from a risk and controls perspective.
• Develop training materials and provide guidance to control owners on control performance, documentation, and evidence retention.
• Identify opportunities to automate controls, monitoring activities, evidence collection, and testing procedures.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience in financial systems, audit, or related field.
• Experience documenting end-to-end processes through narratives, flowcharts, procedures, or risk and control matrices.
• Experience performing control walkthroughs and testing control design or operating effectiveness.
• Experience preparing testing workpapers and documenting findings, exceptions, and conclusions.
• Knowledge of IT general controls, automated application controls, manual controls, and IT-dependent controls.
• Familiarity with access management, segregation of duties, change management, system interfaces, and data-integrity controls.
• Experience working with an enterprise resource planning system or other financial applications.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple testing activities, audit requests, and remediation deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with global, cross-functional teams.

BONUS POINTS:

• Professional certification such as CPA, Chartered Accountant, CIA, CISA, CRISC, or equivalent.
• Experience with NetSuite or another enterprise resource planning platform.
• Experience with procurement, expense, treasury, planning, billing, revenue, or financial reporting applications.
• Experience evaluating system-generated reports and information produced by the entity.
• Experience supporting financial system implementations, integrations, upgrades, or data conversions.
• Experience with governance, risk, and compliance or audit-management platforms.
• Experience using data analytics, automated controls, continuous monitoring, or dashboard reporting.