Supervisor, Internal Controls & Compliance

Role Purpose

Performs and monitors accounting activities in accordance with accounting principles and standards to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, laws, and reporting requirements.

Location: Charlotte, NC or Corning, NY

Key Responsibilities

• Documents and compiles managements internal control assessment.
• Manages the completion of internal control and U.S. GAAP audits and associated risk assessments.
• Performs documentation and evaluation of company level controls as part of annual self-assessment.
• Develops written reports and presentations to communicate results and produce recommendations after reviewing results of internal and external audit work.
• Supervises staff in areas of control; provide direction based on general policies and management guidance; lead the centralized functional activity.
• Establishes operational objectives and assignments, and delegates assignments to assigned staff.
• Ensures projects are completed on schedule and within budget; conduct briefings and participates in technical meetings for internal and external representatives concerning specific operations.
• Develop, modify, communicate and provide training on internal control policies.
• Develops solutions to a wide range of problems, leveraging full knowledge of GAAP, Corning policies, and COSO Framework.
• Requires the ability to influence the thinking of, or gain acceptance of, others in sensitive situations.
• Participate in integrated scoping of external audit efforts and management of Corning’s preparedness for external audit procedures and deliverables to auditors.

Projects involved with

• Lead management’s internal control assessment in accordance with Sarbanes Oxley Act, including training, coach network development, documentation of results, and management of issues and resolution.
• Direct interaction and coordination of activities of outsourced internal auditors in performance of management’s annual assessment of internal controls and execution of testing.
• Assist Director with integration of internal and external audit scopes and extent of efforts.
• Manage deliverables to external auditors.
• Create, interpret and communicate internal control policies and procedures; provide training and guidance to businesses and corporate customer

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Resource allocation of staff and internal/external auditors,
• Exercising judgment in application and interpretation of internal control policies and procedures,
• Decision making in hiring of new employees and staff development,
• Exercising leadership in training initiative

Travel up to 20% 

Experiences/Education - Required

• 4 to 8 years of audit or audit related work experience.
• Experience executing a range of internal audit procedures and risk assessments, producing reports and insights based on results, with supervision.
• Experience designing and validating proposed improvements to existing audit processes, standards and tools, under supervision.
• Experience helping produce part or all of audit result briefings to team to both internal and external audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to execute internal controls testing and synthesize results into actionable improvements and reports.
• Experience creating and delivering presentations for internal learning, training events and/or business discussions.
• Experience coaching and providing regular feedback to team member
• Bachelors in Accounting or equivalent, CPA is preferred

Experiences/Education - Desired

• Must be strong in organizational and planning skills
• Must have strong communication and influencing skills
• Experience with Financial, Operational, and Information Technology (IT) audits
• Digital acumen (data analytics, Gen AI, Power BI or other visualization software tool skills)