Senior Manager, Assurance

Senior Manager Internal AuditOur team is growing, and we are seeking someone with internal audit expertise and risk acumen. Are you interested in driving improvements in risk management, controls, and governance processes? As a leader in our Assurance and Risk Advisory (ARA) function, you will play an integral role in bringing value to the business to help the organization achieve its strategic objectives. You will work with a dynamic and global team that supports the organization's strategy through customer focus and innovation. Our remit spans strategic, operational, compliance, and financial risks. The Senior Manager will support the Senior Director, ARA in executing on internal audit projects and driving the strategy and transformational initiatives within ARA. This entails having internal audit expertise, including a comprehensive understanding of relevant standards, regulations, and emerging risks to effectively support internal audit activities within the MedTech industry. The Senior Manager will have exceptional leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and effective communication skills. This position demands an agile, proactive, and organized leader committed to driving excellence in audit deliverables and advancing business practices. Our preference is for this role to be hybrid, based out of our Flower Mound, TX; Mahwah, NJ; or Portage, MI offices (1 day per week in office). However, we're also open to filling the role as a fully remote position. Candidates must be located in either the Eastern or Central time zones.Dedicated achievers. People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure business goals and objectives are met.Collaborative partners. Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships, influence and partner with business leaders in multiple functional areas.Self-directed initiators. People who take ownership of their work and need no prompting to drive productivity, change, and outcomes.Accounting professionals. A background in accounting with a strong knowledge of US GAAP and SOX, coupled with the ability and desire to apply the concepts to "hands-on" operational processes.What you will do:Oversee and lead internal audit SOX projects, with a focus on evaluating and improving internal controls over financial reporting.Manage stakeholder engagement for projects by collaborating with the Corporate Controllership, Global Internal Controls, Financial Compliance, and IT SOX Compliance teams as well as global finance leaders, global process owners, and control owners throughout the enterprise.Prepare and monitor SOX resourcing plans and milestones to ensure projects are appropriately staffed and scheduled to deliver against planned testing milestones; Leverage audit team tools to provide comprehensive and clear SOX status reports that succinctly summarize scope, testing status, milestones and delivery, issues, and agreed action plans to be shared within the ARA team as well as to business stakeholders on a regular cadence.Review testing workpapers to verify achievement of audit objectives and quality in audit deliverables. Interpret and implement relevant concepts to audit methodology and ARA practices to ensure audit and advisory excellence.Conduct end-to-end process walkthroughs to obtain a process-level understanding, identify process risk points and controls in place to mitigate the risks, and evaluate control design.Critically evaluate internal control deficiencies to understand root cause, exposure, and impacts, and collaborate with control owners to assemble detailed management action plans.Demonstrate leadership presence and influence internally across a broad range of business stakeholders to drive organizational change; Partner and collaborate with our external auditor team and internal controls compliance functions to create efficiencies in workstreams and deliver on SOX testing within agreed timelines.Drive talent development by providing training and mentoring of ARA team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional excellence.What you need:Required: Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance Minimum 6 years Big 4 experience CPA certification Experience with US GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley, COSO framework, and leading business practices Experience with technical accounting and financial statement audit conceptsPreferred: Experience working with audit software (e.g. AuditBoard)$115,600 - $245,800 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.