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Manager of Internal Audit and SOX Compliance
William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
New York, NY, United States
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Endeavor is seeking a Manager of Internal Audit and SOX Compliance to support and execute the Company’s internal controls program. The Manager will partner with key internal stakeholders to review financial processes and controls, providing SOX-compliant recommendations, and implement best practices to ensure our organization continues to operate at the highest levels of accuracy and integrity. This is a high profile position that will work with senior financial leadership across a diverse portfolio of business and industries including the UFC, Professional Bull Riders, and IMG.
Reporting to the Director of Internal Audit and SOX Compliance, you will support the positioning of the Internal Audit Department as a value added services to the organization in the highest-risk financial, operational and compliance areas. Your remit will include hands-on auditing duties, from interviewing to documentation, as well as serving as a true business partner, educating business leads on best practices and compliant workflows related to their financial processes.
The Internal Audit team is a talented and hard-working group of audit and accounting professionals that work with some of the most influential companies in the entertainment industry. You will have the opportunity to be our Internal Audit expert and empowered to directly contribute to the financial operations of Endeavor.
You should have a great background in auditing and accounting at a mix of both public and private industries. Your technical finance and accounting abilities are matched with your relationship building abilities – you gain trust through your credibility, accountability, positivity, and communication skills. You love working with creative businesses that innovate and shape culture and enjoy working in a highly iterative, agile, and at times intense environment. You should expect to travel 25% of the time.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Perform audit and risk oversight activities with emphasis on risk exposures prevalent within financial, operating, and compliance reporting areas.
• Responsible for overall planning, execution and reporting of value-added audit and functional/operational reviews designed to address management concerns.
• Act as Internal Audit thought leader in designing the Company’s risk identification, assessment and auditing protocols in support of Management’s assertions under various regulations.
• Drive the audit plan forward including scheduling, scoping and providing oversight for all fieldwork.
• Provides guidance and coaching to those working on Internal Audit projects, which may include co-sourced professionals, internal staff and guest-auditors, as applicable.
• Liaise with business and finance leadership in sharing status of key projects and initiatives, best practices and industry/company trends, value-added advisory services, etc.
• Deliver presentations at leadership meanings, directly presenting the results of your audit and controls work.
• Assist the Director and VP Internal Audit in managing the performance Internal Audit co-source arrangement with one of the Big 4 Accounting firms – providing hands-on auditing, control based procedures, enforce quality assurance process, and fulfillment of statement of work(s).
• OTHER: Company’s establishment of an effective internal and operating control environment; SEC financial reporting and consolidation processes; SAP upgrade/implementation requirements; addressing risk-based opportunities for system, control and process enhancements; and the overall stand-up of the control and compliance infrastructure for organization.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Professional designations-CPA, CFE, CRMA, CIA.
• Four years of business/accounting, auditing, finance experience with a dynamic and progressive organization
• A mix of Public and Private Industry experience preferred.
• Media and entertainment industry experience preferred.
• Experience in SEC financial reporting. Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and the ability to independently develop auditing approach to internal controls and financial reporting audits.
• Strong oral and writing skills, capable of communicating with all levels of management.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, counsel, train and develop skills of others; capable of growing leaders.
• Acts decisively.
• Ability and willingness to travel both domestic and internationally when needed.
• Holds themselves and others accountable.
ABOUT US
Endeavor, formerly WME | IMG, is a global leader in sports, entertainment and fashion operating in more than 30 countries. Named one of Fortune’s 25 Most Important Private Companies, Endeavor is the parent of a number of subsidiaries with leadership positions in their respective industries, including WME, IMG and UFC. Collectively, Endeavor specializes in talent representation and management; brand strategy, activation and licensing; media sales and distribution; and event management.
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