Senior Internal Controls Analyst

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At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

About the role:

The Senior Internal Controls Analyst will report to the Senior Manager of Internal Controls and Sarbanes Oxley Compliance within the Corporate Accounting group at Boston Scientific Corporation. This key position is responsible for supporting the execution of the major components of the company's Global SOX 404 Program, including assisting with several initiatives aimed at optimizing the company's control environment and playing a major role in the implementation of the newly adopted SOX tool, AuditBoard. This role is part of a small team which is responsible for managing the SOX audit and compliance efforts associated with key business and IT processes and for providing guidance to stakeholders on risk and control considerations.

The successful candidate will excel in business partnering as this position will require frequent collaboration and communication with leaders and business control owners across the company to continuously improve business processes and controls. In addition to the core responsibilities, this position will be expected to continually seek a greater understanding of business processes to be able to identify opportunities to refine and improve the company’s control environment and ensure continued compliance with our programs in a constantly changing environment.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Perform detailed reviews of managements’ controls testing to ensure compliance with testing guidance and follow up with SOX PMOs to gain understanding and resolve discrepancies
• Maintain control matrix documentation and testing submission files from the global SOX sites, including maintaining metrics as part of executive reporting
• Collaborate with thirty plus global sites to assist in defining root cause remediation for SOX deficiencies; track remediation progress and provide guidance and support while learning and developing as a SOX subject matter expert
• Apply analytical skills to consolidate global site information and critical thinking to organize findings results and identify trends which contribute to management’s SOX 404 control environment assessment
• Provide regular updates to the SOX Senior Manager and team regarding the status of SOX projects
• Prepare timely, concise, and accurate ad hoc slides and reports for executive level presentation
• Assist in the annual SOX 404 scoping exercise to evaluate changes in IT applications being used as part of SOX processes and determine which applications will be brought into scope for SOX 404
• Design and implement control documentation improvements to matrices, test plans, and reporting files to increase efficiencies in the overall execution of the process and coordination with the external auditors
• Participate in the annual SOX trainings conducted by the SOX team including content preparation of training slides and acting as co-presenter of the trainings
• Liaise with key constituents such as External Auditors, Corporate Accounting, Global Divisional and Regional finance, Global Internal Audit, Operations and Plant Finance, Global Business Services locations, and Global IT
• Assist with planning, coordination, and execution of identified control environment optimization that supports best practice initiatives
• Stay current with PCAOB trends and external audit requirements to ensure continued compliance with our programs in a constantly changing environment
• Foster an inclusive workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational and personal objectives

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related degree
• 4+ years of progressive SOX experience with a Public Accounting Firm or combined experience with a large, complex multi-national company
• Familiarity with COSO, COBIT, Sarbanes-Oxley and SOC 1 / SSAE 16 concepts
• Solid understanding of the relationship of internal controls and business processes with financial statements and financial statement risks and assertions
• Strong time management skills with the ability to organize, attention to detail
• Strong written and oral presentation skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 10-15% of the year.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with AuditBoard, or similar SOX Compliance Tool
• A continuous-improvement, proactive, and strategic-thinking mindset
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple priorities

Requisition ID: 591349

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. 

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, gender expression, veteran’s status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

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