Financial Analyst, Internal Controls

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Work with external consultants to perform internal audits across the Corning entities in global region
• Lead periodic internal control and compliance health checks across Great China entities and Corning International locations, assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls to support SOX compliance.
• Perform division level controls for Corning International locations, including account reconciliation and task review.
• Partner with corporate functions and business teams to develop and refine localized processes and procedures based on corporate policies, ensuring compliance with local regulatory and statutory requirements, including tax, customs, and statutory audit obligations.
• Provide internal control advisory support for new and/or high-risk business processes, helping business units evaluate process and control design effectiveness and ensure key risks are properly addressed.
• Identify the best practices in the region and implement them in the other entities
• Provide Internal Control training and coaching to Finance team to improve the awareness of company policies and procedures
• Perform compliance investigation based on legal request
• Support SAP go-live readiness for China entities.
• Provide temporary financial support for business partners and projects as requested;
• Ad-hoc Projects / Tasks

• Education & Experience  
  •    Bachelor’s degree with major in finance or related fields
  •    Five years above experience in one of the Big4 CPA firms, and/or experience in manufacturing industry with responsibility for SOX/Internal Control
  •    CPA, ACCA or CIA preferred

  Required Skills                                                
  •    Experience in internal control advisory or MNC internal control/internal audit exposure
  •    Excellent communication skills both written and spoken in English
  •    Excellent written and oral presentation skills needed to brief high-level management 
  •    Be familiar with major ERP systems (i.e., PeopleSoft, SAP)
  •    Flexibility to adapt to changing environment; be a change agent to help others through changes
  •    Problem Solving and Analytical skills

Desired Skills

•    Good technical skills (e.g. finance & accounting, costing, tax)
•    Data analysis and create model to process data