Financial Reporting/SOX Manager

171935 | Direct Hire

This strong and bilingual (English & Spanish) Financial Reporting/SOX Manager is a CPA with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Accounting and extensive international experience in large, global companies up to $30 billion. Recent experience includes reviewing and enforcing SOX compliance for a provider of mobile, wireless and internet services in Latin America and the Caribbean. Systems experience includes Oracle, SAP, Hyperion (HFM), MS Dynamics, NetSuite, Microsoft Office Suite, Concur, Blackline, QuickBooks and advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, v-lookups).

Additional qualifications include:

  • Assisted external auditors with annual audit and oversaw the preparation of monthly financial statements and compliance reports for banks using a NetSuite ERP system
  • Collaborated with internal audit in the remediation of failed SOX 404 controls and achieved 100% SOX compliance
  • Documented, tested and remediated controls and processes in the North America region to ensure continued regulatory compliance with SOX 404, internal testing resulted in a 10% reduction of fees for the annual SOX audit
  • Supervised U.S. GAAP financial closings focusing on premium and reinsurance receivables, investment reporting and in-house reconciliations, U.S. GAAP certifications and reserve calculations
  • Created and implemented standard closing policies that reduced month-end close time by two business days
Skills: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Administrative Support, Audit Planning, Balance Sheet, Bank Reconciliations, Budgeting & Forecasting, Cash Applications, Consolidations, ERP Software Implementation, Excel – Basic, Excel – Intermediate, Expenses, Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, GAAP, General Ledger, Great Plains, Hyperion, IFRS, Insurance & Statutory Accounting, Intercompany Accounting, Internal Audit, Inventory, Investments, Journal Entry Preparation, Management Experience, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Month End Close, Network Administration, Oracle, Pilot, Process Improvement, Project Management, SAP, SEC Reporting, Software Support, SOX, Spanish, Tax – Compliance, Tax - Provisions
Skills: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Administrative Support, Audit Planning, Balance Sheet, Bank Reconciliations, Budgeting & Forecasting, Cash Applications, Consolidations, ERP Software Implementation, Excel – Basic, Excel – Intermediate, Expenses, Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, GAAP, General Ledger, Great Plains, Hyperion, IFRS, Insurance & Statutory Accounting, Intercompany Accounting, Internal Audit, Inventory, Investments, Journal Entry Preparation, Management Experience, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Month End Close, Network Administration, Oracle, Pilot, Process Improvement, Project Management, SAP, SEC Reporting, Software Support, SOX, Spanish, Tax – Compliance, Tax - Provisions