Manager, Risk & Controls

at CF Enterprises, Inc. in Northbrook, Illinois, United States

Job Description

At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management. By joining CF, you will be part of a team that brings their varied experiences, wide-ranging knowledge and diverse talents together to deliver important work and you'll be able to pursue complex, exciting opportunities that help you continue to grow and achieve your potential in different areas. You'll take pride in working for a company that lives its values and where you can be yourself at work, as part of an authentic team that encourages you to share your views and opinions. Our eight manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the world's transition to clean energy.
Function: Finance & AccountingJob Summary:
The Manager, Policy, Process, and Controls is responsible for evaluating risks, processes, and controls to support CF's control environment. This includes evaluating, recommending, and implementing improvements in processes and controls to improve process efficiency and control effectiveness. The incumbent will manage the development, implementation, and training on Finance policies across the finance team. The incumbent will lead business process owners throughout the organization regarding the Company's expectations for creating and maintaining a strong control environment through robust process documentation.

Job Description:

Internal Control Environment Management
Ensures the Company has adequate, sufficient controls in place to ensure completeness and accuracy of financial information, safeguarding of assets, and protecting the information, processes and procedures of the Company
Supports the evaluation of risks and controls
Leads the annual risk assessment process.
Evaluates risk to processes and controls and provides guidance and counsel to business process owners to mitigate risks.
Maintains the Risk and Controls Matrix (RACM by working with other groups within the Company to ensure completeness
Identifies internal controls deficiencies, coordinates with business functional owners to remediate the deficiency
Supports reporting of process and control matters to the Process and Controls Council.
Proactively evaluates and works with control owners to identify efficiencies in the performance of controls, including through automation.
Supports CF's testing of key reports and critical spreadsheets.
Advises process and control owners on the development of new key reports/critical spreadsheets
Administers the annual review of service organization reporting and critical third parties
Liaise with external and internal auditors to communicate changes in controls on a timely basis
Coordinates audit plans with external and internal auditors and business functional owners, as well as the implementation of SOX controls and the ongoing testing of the internal control environment.

Staff Supervision and Development
Plans, coordinates and reviews work assignments
Identifies training needs of subordinates and provides means to meet the needs including conducting formal employee training sessions

Matrix Responsibilities
Provide leadership, guidance, coaching, and process oversight for the areas of the corporate controller's group
Provides direction to individuals regarding their roles and responsibilities to help meet the overall Company objectives, along with the role the department has in fulfilling corporate goals
Empowers and promotes the proper level of responsibility and authority for others to learn, grow into new responsibilities and make the proper decisions to obtain the overall department objectives
Demonstrates the highest level of integrity and trust in all aspects of the job by working continually towards self-development, staying abreast of all current information and technology, and be knowledgeable with FASB & AICPA governing bodies affecting functional areas to increase innovation and ensure compliance
Promotes the corporate controller's group by developing strong relationships between department members and other CF departments through a high degree of communication across management
Promotes the matrix organizational structure, including cross communication, and encourages cross involvement between people and groups

Other Areas
Develop greater analyses skills across the team
Initiates, researches and documents improvements to current methods and procedures
Performs or directs the performance of special projects as assigned

Successful... For full info follow application link.

Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities