Internal Controls Consultant

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

As an Internal Controls Consultant, you will have the opportunity to support Kimberly Clark’s businesses and functions by ensuring that they operate in compliance with all financial internal control requirements. You will collaborate with business and functional teams to research, evaluate, and recommend control improvements in their financial processes. You will also advise them on control and financial matters as they develop new processes, implement robotics automation projects, and migrate to GBS (Global Business Services) functions. Additionally, you will participate in the discussion of audit findings and provide guidance on remediation and facilitate management testing of controls.  You will be a valued business partner and expected to work on or even lead joint projects with the business units.

It starts with YOU. 

In this role, you will:

• Lead and participate in activities and initiatives that promote internal controls awareness and education among employees and help them understand their roles and responsibilities in maintaining effective controls.

• Serve as the face of the Controller’s Office and resource to the business on internal control matters, providing guidance, interpretation, and resolution of issues. Lead quarterly discussions on changes in control environment and business strategies.

• Be a valued business partner to identify value creation opportunities across businesses and functions and influence/facilitate action to bring the ideas to life.

• Collaborate, review, and propose plans for embedding strong process-level internal controls in key projects, and/or GBS migrations, ensure such plans are sufficient to protect the company and are in compliance with the company’s Corporate Financial Instructions (CFI’s).

• Collaborate and support internal and external audit engagements, partnering with process owners to ensure their remediation plans for identified issues appropriately address the relevant risks, and follow-up to ensure process owners complete remediations timely.

• Work with control owners/testers to ensure control information is up to date, execute periodic testing of controls, evaluate test results and partner with control owners to develop appropriate remediation plans when needed.

• Perform analysis and special studies as needed.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex

That Works: flexible work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Who you are?

• A strong and consistent understanding of financial controls is required for this position, typically obtained through a minimum of 5 years of relevant business, finance/accounting, IT and/or internal controls experience.

• A broad knowledge of various business areas and the ability to identify and evaluate key financial and process related controls and gaps in those areas.

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for delivering high-quality results within tight deadlines and competing priorities, and a proactive attitude towards process improvement and problem solving.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, both written and oral, and the ability to present complex information and recommendations in a clear and concise manner to various audiences and stakeholders, from operational staff to senior management.

• High level of adaptability and flexibility to handle ambiguity and changing business needs, and the ability to learn quickly and independently in new or unfamiliar situations.

• A collaborative and team-oriented work style, and the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external partners across different cultures and locations.

• Educational requirements include undergraduate degree or better with a background in business administration, accounting, finance, or a related field.

Preferred but not required:

• Strong and consistent understanding of financial internal control concepts, principles, frameworks, and standards, such as COSO, COBIT, and SOX, and the ability to apply them to various business scenarios and risks.

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in internal controls, risk management, audit, compliance, or similar functions, preferably in a global organization with complex operations and processes.