Director of Technology Internal Controls

SUMMARY OF JOB PURPOSE:

Director provides leadership and direction to both GSC and global field associates regarding the consistent accounting policies, supporting technology processes and controls. Areas of responsibility include ensuring compliance with accounting and technology processes, policies and internal control and continuous process improvement for all functions. Also responsible for leading strategies to assist with technology controls and process efficiencies to reduce costs and facilitate overall business improvement.

Close partnership with Business Technology, Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, and Financial Planning & Analysis is critical for the role, as well as with the business leaders across Merchandising, Supply Chain, Shared Services and Field Finance and Operations to deliver financial accounting guidance including the identification and establishment of effective internal controls.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assists individual Sysco entities globally with questions regarding Technology and Accounting process, policy and controls helping to build consistent compliance throughout the enterprise
• Lead Team responsible for developing documentation to support critical technology process and control issues
• Manages team responsible for updating and maintaining Sysco's Financial Accounting Methods Manual (FAMM)
• Provides oversight over the maintenance of Sysco's standard Chart of Accounts (CoA) definitions including the enterprise GL Account mapping and definition reference document
• Partners with Corporate Financial Reporting to ensure GL account additions and changes are properly reflected in the BPC system
• Assists with implementing and maintaining the Delegation of Authority Policy providing guidance to Leadership regarding the appropriate
• Lead Finance Governance Working Committee meetings
• Leads team working with all project teams to ensure technology risks are identified and appropriate internal controls are designed, developed and implemented to mitigate the risk.
• Collaborate with various Technology teams to better understand the changes that are being planned or implemented and to provide guidance on updating process and control related issues.
• Manage team responsible for evaluating ITGCs across areas such as access management, change management, and computer operations (e.g., backups, job scheduling).
• Responsible for assisting individual Sysco entities with questions regarding IT risk and internal controls help to build consistent compliance throughout the enterprise.
• Leads team responsible for working with IT Management to design and implement automated controls and IT-dependent manual controls.
• Manages team validating IT processes and controls are in place working with Internal Audit leadership to answer all audit/compliance questions.
• Oversee team responsible for providing continuous monitoring of key financial and operational controls.
• Assist in the development and enhancement of IT SOX policies and procedures.
• Monitor and report on compliance issues and recommend improvements for IT processes.
• Assists individual Sysco entities with questions regarding accounting policy help to build consistent compliance throughout the enterprise
• Manages team responsible for Evaluating financial processes and procedures to identify opportunities to gain efficiencies or improve effectiveness developing and maintaining policies to support the revised processes
• Oversee the development of integrated training materials to facilitate knowledge sharing and compliance with enterprise policies and procedures
• Problem Solve - Troubleshoot and resolve escalated issues and communicate resolution. Partner with IT Leaders to develop policies on any new matters and provide training to teams (on-shore and off-shore) on such matters.
• Analysis
  - Partner with other functions to ensure financials are properly stated and provide value-added insights.
• Monitoring - Reviews dashboards, enforce SLA adherence, KPI's and analyzes reports. Responsible for ensuring overall health of centralized accounts, balance sheet and income statement. Monitor and communicate key risks/opportunities each period ensuring alignment with other…