Analyst, Internal Controls Senior

Summary

CHS has an exciting opportunity in our Internal Controls department. We are looking for an Internal Controls Senior Associate to help support the company’s Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance effort related to internal controls design and its effectiveness. This position will play a key role in driving a culture that understands and appreciates the importance of a strong internal control environment. This work is centered in our corporate office in Inver Grove Heights, MN. As a valuable resource to the organization, you must have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong planning, problem-solving and presentation skills. An ideal candidate must have the ability to lead others, successfully manage stakeholders and influence those within key areas of the business. This position will work with other members of the Internal Controls team to support regulatory compliance activities focused on governance, business risk analysis, and internal control framework implementation and assessment.

Responsibilities

• Assist with annual and ongoing risk assessments.

• Establish strong relationships with business unit stakeholders to develop a thorough understanding of the business, relevant financial reporting risks and core key processes.

• Support the timely creation of process documentation and control matrices for new and updated processes.

• Evaluate key controls with control owners to identify any changes in existing controls or new activities that may require controls.

• Support the mitigation of action items by helping the business understand the findings, potential controls, dependencies to remediation whether internal or external and setting realistic timeliness while monitoring progress to ensure action items are closed timely.

• Execute process and transaction walk-throughs to validate processes remain in compliance with SOX objectives.

• Handle quarterly tasks associated with SOX controls certifications.

Minimum Qualifications (required)

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Business Management, Statistics, or related field

• 4+ years of experience in Compliance and/or Audit

Additional Qualifications

• Previous SOX experience at a large SEC Filer company

• Proficiency in MS Office suite

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

• Professional certification such as CPA, CIA, CMA

• Commodity or financial services industry background/experience

• Public accounting experience