Controls & Compliance, Analyst

at  The Este Lauder Companies

ABOUT ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES

ELC (Estee Lauder Companies) is a global leader in prestige beauty that delights consumers with transformative products and experiences, inspiring them to express their individual beauty. They are the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skin care, fragrance and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25+ brands sold in 150 countries. Infused throughout their organization is a passion for creativity and innovation; a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected.
From a position of strength, The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC), the leader in prestige beauty products, embarked on the Leading Beauty Forward program, chartered to fuel product innovation and enhance market agility. A key element of this strategy was the design of a new way to support its suite of 30 brands globally. The company chose Panama as being best suited to establish its new Global Business Services (GBS) operation center. This new center will initially deliver Finance, Human Resources and Legal services to ELC employees across several geographies and time zones. Through a new innovative service minded approach, this center will redefine service standards globally at ELC. This new GBS team will provide a one-stop-shop solution for the ELC businesses, supported by new customer engagement insights, new systems, and new reporting. In addition to delivering exceptional service to the ELC businesses each day, the GBS team will also be responsible for continuously streamlining work in pursuit of growing its service offering in support of achieving ELC’s strategic and business objectives. New site, new team, new opportunity.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

This role will provide various Controls & Compliance services to the ELC Global Finance community, working closely with key stakeholders to understand their needs and execute accordingly. These areas include but are not limited to the Sarbanes-Oxley program, Controls follow up, Third Party Administrator, Facilitated Self-Assessment, SOX 302, Tableau Dashboarding, and Controls Issue Management.
Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE

• Degree: Bachelors in Accounting/Finance/Administration preferred
• Minimum Years of Experience: 1-3
• Fully bilingual, English and Spanish.
  Job: Finance & Accounting
  Primary Location: Latin America-PA-
  Job Type: Standard
  Schedule: Full-time
  Shift: 1st (Day) Shift
  Job Number: 241012

Perform key service tasks, tracking, follow-up, and developing deliverables for the following areas, including but not limited to:

• SOX 302 Consolidation & Reporting
• SOX 404 follow-up
• Representation Letter Reporting and Follow-up
• Third Party Risk Management & Reporting (SOC-1/SSAE 18 requirements)
• Global Policy Facilitation & Publication
• C&C Communication Governance (SharePoint maintenance, Newsletter)
• Controls & Compliance Calendar Administration & Status Reporting
• Develop new visualization dashboards based on service delivery needs as identified by internal customer groups.
• Provide periodic reporting updates / snapshots from Tableau dashboards to drive status update discussions and/or provide insights based on tool outputs.