Financial Control Project Analyst

James Hardie Building Products is the $1.5B world-leader in Fiber Cement Siding. In the United States, we have operations in eight manufacturing plants, two regional offices and two research centers. No matter where we operate, our goal is to remain at the forefront of the fiber-cement industry, capitalizing on our global leadership in building products and manufacturing and technology for both new home construction and remodeling.

The Financial Control Project Analyst is a member of the Group Operations Controllership team, which is one of several centers of excellence supporting the Group Controller. The Financial Control Project Analyst plays a key role in facilitating the annual SOX compliance process and executing a number of projects and initiatives aimed at implementing world class accounting processes, practices and controls across the global finance organization. This role will have ongoing interaction with individuals and teams across all levels and disciplines (e.g. GL accounting, Treasury, SEC Reporting, FP&A, Payroll, etc) within the finance organization spanning multiple jurisdictions across the globe. This role has growth potential and serves as a transition for those candidates with audit background to move into a finance and accounting management capacity. It is expected that the individual filling this role will ultimately rotate into other positions within the global finance organization (i.e. internal audit, consolidation and reporting, general ledger accounting, financial planning and analysis, etc.), depending on the individual’s competencies, career goals, long-term development plan and needs of the broader finance group.

- Acting as the management's representative to both internal and external auditors regarding SOX compliance and control management. - Performing the annual scoping analysis for the Company's consolidated SOX compliance process, - Partnering with both internal and external auditors to ensure an annual SOX audit plan is aligned with business unit leaders, and adhered to throughout the scoping, testing and remediation cycles. - Executing an effective change management process to ensure controls remain current and properly reflect control activities that mitigate the relevant financial statement risks. - Ensuring business process documentation is up-to-date and reviewed by business process owners in a timely manner. - Tracking control deficiencies with an aggregation analysis to determine the magnitude of such deficiencies. Works with business process owners and auditors to execute an agreed-upon remediation plan. - Monitoring the remediation progress of internal audit operational audit findings. Works with business process owners to ensure appropriate projects and/or process changes are initiated to mitigate the relevant operational risks. - Participating as a member of functional teams on a variety of improvement projects and initiatives designed to improve operating performance and compliance efficiency within a cohesive and world-class accounting and finance team. - Executing project management responsibilities to monitor and track progress of functional teams executing key finance initiatives that are sponsored by senior management. - Administering the finance and accounting policies and procedures excellence program ("P&Ps") by engaging P&P owners, reviewers and stakeholders to ensure relevant finance and accounting P&Ps are identified, documented, rolled out to and certified by the broader finance organization in a timely manner. - Assisting with ad-hoc technical accounting research to facilitate the decision-making process impacting the resolution of subjective accounting issues and policies. - Collaborating to plan and execute recurring finance leadership meetings, workshops, training and conferences, including content development, CPE documentation requirements and logistical planning, as needed. - Assisting the Global SOX Compliance Manager with ad-hoc requests and projects that ensure the Company's internal control framework and SOX documentation remain current and relevant.

**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:** - Understands US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). Proficient in performing accounting research and interpreting authoritative guidance. - Strong analytical skills, a high degree of intellectual curiosity, and the ability to engage with other team members in addressing a variety of accounting, reporting and business issues. - An energetic, hands-on individual with a strong bias for action, someone who commits himself/herself fully to stretch goals, is receptive to ongoing coaching and development and who is dedicated to delivering outstanding results. - Ability to manage multiple concurrent assignments to meet both regulatory and self-imposed deadlines. A highly motivated team player that contributes to an atmosphere in which people work together to produce outstanding results. - Excellent interpersonal and written/oral communication skills. A good listener with outstanding interpersonal qualities and can present his/her views in a clear and compelling manner. - Ability to embrace step-change in a fast-paced team-oriented work environment. - Unquestionable integrity, credibility and character who has demonstrated high moral and ethical behavior. - Advanced MS Excel skills - Ability to travel (approximately 15-20%). **Education/Experience:** - A Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting is required. - 3 years of accounting or audit experience with SEC registrants - 2+ years of public accounting experience preferred - CPA license is preferred