Assoc Dir, Internal Auditing

Assoc Dir, Internal Auditing Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support. Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know: Why Syneos Health • We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. • We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.  • We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.  Job Responsibilities Job Title:           Associate Director, Internal Auditor Job Code:         030AD Assoc Dir, Internal Auditing Reports To:       Director, Internal Audit; or designee      SUMMARY:       Responsibilities include executing, and completing audit fieldwork according to a developed schedule, identifying risks, recommending improvements and deliverables for process owners and SOX testing. Audits include financial, operational, contract, compliance, and special investigation audits for various business activities and locations with minimal guidance. Works with the Internal Audit team to develop the annual plan, identify opportunities to improve the audit process and complete other department goals. SOX testing responsibilities include, but are not limited to, performing control testing, designing controls, and working with our co-sourcing partner. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Assist in the execution of SOX compliance program by performing SOX testing on specified controls and tracking pending requests . This includes, but is not limited to, scheduling annual walk-throughs, reviewing process narratives, following up with control owners on outstanding requests, and communicating testing results. Conduct audit testing of specified areas and identify reportable issues. Determine compliance with policies and procedures. Examine records to ensure proper recording of transactions and compliance with applicable laws, agreements and policies. Documents the audit methodology and results of testing in work-papers which comply with department standards for content and quality. Verbally communicate findings to the Chief Audit Executive and draft a comprehensive and complete report of audit area. Assist in the development of audit programs in conjunction with the Audit Director. Perform special projects for the Audit Committee and Chief Audit Executive. Provides clear and actionable recommendations in verbal and/or written format. As necessary, performs follow-up on assigned audit report recommendations to ensure process owners have completed agreed upon responsive action. Participates in annual risk assessment process and the development of the annual audit plan. Other Responsibilities: Performs other work-related duties as assigned.  Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%).  REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES •   Strong technical accounting skills •   Ability to identify financial issues, develop and execute mitigating actions •   Ability to demonstrate the highest ethical standards •   Effective verbal and written communication skills •   Ability to influence others •   Ability to maintain a level of independence to ensure there is no conflict of interest •   Ability to manage conflicting priorities •   Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, managers and clients. MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE •   Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or other related field, and a minimum of five years’ accounting experience including up to 4 years of public accounting or internal auditing experience, or other equivalent combination of education, training and experience.  Disclaimer: Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities.  Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description.  The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms.  Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. For employees in the United States ONLY FLSA status:      Exempt Years of experience required:    Minimum of three (3) years of public accounting or