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Global Director of Risk Assessment & Controls
at Wunderman ThompsonWho we are:
At Wunderman Thompson we exist to inspire growth for ambitious brands. Part creative agency, part consultancy and part technology company, our experts provide end-to-end capabilities at a global scale to deliver inspiration across the entire brand and customer experience.
We are 20,000 strong in 90 markets around the world; our people bring together creative storytelling, diverse perspectives, inclusive thinking, and highly specialized vertical capabilities to drive growth for our clients. We offer deep expertise across the entire customer journey, including communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology.
Who we are looking for:
Wunderman Thompson (WT) is seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking Global Director of Risks Assessment and Controls with substantial accounting and auditing experience based in New York. This role leads a global team and dually reports to Wunderman Thompson’s Global CFO and WPP’s Global Risks and Controls Director.
This leadership role is critical within the Wunderman Thompson network of operating companies to achieve the following goals:
- Partner with the various operating companies to drive continuous controls improvement to establish processes and controls under a comprehensive controls framework to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and various accounting and control policies;
- Support the culture of control compliance;
- Be actively involved with the business. This is not an audit position although this role will work closely with auditors and an audit background is required;
- Provide training and development to our operating companies.
The candidate must be extremely knowledgeable in business controls and auditing requirements including the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) requirements, US GAAP; and Risk and Compliance best practices and emerging trends.
The job will require approximately 35% travel. Travel is currently not expected due to the global COVID pandemic. Remote working skills are essential.
What you’ll do:
- Operate as a thought leader and Risk & Controls champion.
- Support and actively lead a team.
- Collaborate withlocal operating company finance teams to develop the necessary processes and controls based on the WPP Controls Framework.
- Be a source of policy and controls guidance to the operating companies.
- Assist operating companies with process documentation and narratives.
- Walkthrough processes to identify gaps.
- Provide process improvement solutions, balancing the business requirements and the WPP control framework requirements;
- Partner with local finance teams on remediation plans and timetable for improvement.
- Educate and train local finance teams on control requirements and the control structure that makes sense for their business.
- Support and assist local finance teams on management responses to all audit reports.
- Participate in audit close meetings.
- Liaise and build relationships with peers across Wunderman Thompson and WPP including WPP Internal Audit and the Risk and Controls group.
- Manage direct reports across the globe.
- Manage the annual self-certification process for Wunderman Thompson.
- Manage the annual certificate of compliance process for Wunderman Thompson.
- Manage and support ad hoc requests from WPP Internal Audit or Risk and Controls Group.
- Collaborate across functions, particularly Finance and IT.
- Identify digital compliance solutions to gain efficiencies, such as digital signatures and better utilization of document sharing tools
Who you are:
- Effective communicator at all levels in the organization, with strong oral and written skills.
- Organized and detail oriented.
- Smart and strategic with a collaborative and team first mindset.
- Strong and proven leadership.
- Capability to make actionable recommendations to senior management for process improvement solutions.
- Can communicate diplomatically and skillfully; can settle issues calmly and win concessions without damaging relationships.
- Ability to work under pressure in an environment with constantly changing priorities.
What you’ll need:
- Minimum of 15 years of accounting and internal/external audit experience, with 5 years in a more senior role in a fast-paced environment.
- Undergraduate degree in Accounting.
- CPA required.
- Public Accounting auditing experience required.
- Extensive experience with GAAP, GAAS, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, SEC, PCAOB requirements, etc.
- Process narrative and risk & control matrices documentation experience.
- Proven track record of influencing change.
- Large company process reengineering and change management experience for systems implementations a plus.
- Controllership experience a plus.
- Experience with quantifying financial statement impact of deficiencies at a large company a plus.
Wunderman Thompson is a WPP agency. For more information, please visit our website and follow Wunderman Thompson on our social channels via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
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Established in 2019, Wunderman Thompson has a combined history of 150 years, setting the standard for marketing, communications and business innovation. We bring together over 20,000 creatives, analysts, strategists, customer experience designers and business consultants across 90 markets.
We’re always looking for the best talent to add to our diverse and talented mix that is Wunderman Thompson.
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