Spec Internal Controls

Medline; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Medline in Pune is seeking a Specialist Internal Controls to advance the Global Internal Controls program. The role independently manages workstreams, strengthens control environments, and collaborates with Finance, IT, Internal Audit, and external auditors.

This hybrid position requires two days per week in the office. The candidate will lead SOX documentation, assess risks, and drive remediation with sound judgement and project-management skills, ensuring effective control implementation

Qualifications

• Advanced understanding of internal controls over financial reporting, SOX compliance, COSO principles, financial statement assertions, risk assessment, and control design concepts.
• Strong technical accounting and financial reporting knowledge, including IFRS and US GAAP implications for processes and controls.
• Demonstrated experience leading process walkthroughs, risk assessments, control design reviews, RCM and narrative updates, audit coordination, deficiency evaluation, and remediation monitoring.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams, exercise judgment, communicate complex matters clearly, and influence cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• SOX Documentation & Control Framework: maintain and enhance narratives, flowcharts, risk/control matrices, and evidence requirements.
• Risk Assessment & Control Design: lead process risk assessments and evaluate control design to mitigate identified risks.
• Stakeholder Partnership: partner with process owners, Finance, IT, and auditors to translate risks into clear control requirements.
• Audit Support & Remediation: coordinate audit requests, collect evidence, and monitor remediation milestones.
• Continuous Improvement: standardize documentation, streamline activities, and enhance governance and technology usage.

Skills

SOX Documentation

Risk assessment

Control design

Stakeholder management

Audit coordination

Financial reporting

Tools

SAP

Oracle EPM

AuditBoard

Optro

BlackLine

Job description

Job Summary

Job Description

Specialist Internal Controls

1. Job Title

Specialist Internal Controls

2. Role Overview

The Specialist - Internal Controls will play a key role in advancing Medline's Global Internal Controls program by independently managing assigned workstreams and helping strengthen an efficient, scalable, and well-documented control environment. The role partners with business, Finance, IT, Internal Audit, and external audit stakeholders to assess financial reporting risks, enhance SOX documentation, evaluate control design, coordinate audit activities, and drive remediation and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate combines strong accounting and internal controls expertise with sound judgment, effective stakeholder management, and the ability to deliver high-quality outcomes with limited supervision. This is a hybrid role requiring two days per week in the office.

3. What You Will Do SOX Documentation & Control Framework

Own the maintenance and enhancement of assigned SOX documentation, including process narratives, flowcharts, risk and control matrices, control descriptions, control attributes, and evidence requirements.

Perform quality reviews to ensure risks, controls, ownership, frequency, precision, reports and IPE considerations, segregation of duties, and evidence expectations are accurate, complete, and clearly documented; coach junior team members and stakeholders on documentation standards.

Risk Assessment & Control Design

Lead risk assessments for assigned processes by identifying financial reporting risks, mapping relevant assertions, and evaluating whether controls are appropriately designed to mitigate identified risks.

Evaluate control design across business processes, systems, interfaces, reports, spreadsheets, management review controls, and IT-dependent manual controls; apply materiality and professional judgment to identify gaps, recommend practical solutions, and escalation significant matters promptly.

Stakeholder Partnership

Serve as a trusted internal controls partner to business process owners, Finance, IT, and other stakeholders by leading process discussions, challenging existing practices constructively, and translating risks and audit expectations into clear, practical control requirements.

Provide independent guidance on control design, evidence quality, IPE validation, documentation standards, SOX responsibilities, and remediation; build alignment and influence timely action across cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Audit Support & Remediation

Lead assigned walkthroughs and coordinate internal and external audit requests, including evidence collection, issue resolution, and timely, accurate responses to inquiries; review support for completeness and audit readiness before submission.

Assess control deficiencies in partnership with management, document root causes and impact, help develop sustainable corrective action plans, monitor milestones, validate remediation, and communicate status and risks to relevant stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement

Lead or contribution to initiatives that standardize documentation, simplify control activities, improve program governance, enhance the use of technology and data, and strengthen the overall maturity of the internal controls framework.

Prepare clear status reporting and analysis for management, manage assigned project and priorities, share knowledge across the team, and provide day-to-day technical guidance or review support to analysts as business needs evolve.

4. What We Are Looking For

Advanced understanding of internal controls over financial reporting, SOX compliance, COSO principles, financial statement assertions, risk assessment, and control design and operating effectiveness concepts.

Strong technical accounting and financial reporting knowledge, including the ability to interpret and apply IFRS and US GAAP requirements to business processes and related controls.

Demonstrated experience independently leading process walkthroughs, risk assessments, control design reviews, RCM and narrative updates, audit coordination, deficiency evaluation, and remediation monitoring.

Ability to manage multiple workstreams, exercise sound professional judgment, communicate complex matters clearly, and influence business process owners, Finance, ITO and auditors in a global cross-functional environment.

Strong analytical, problem-solving, project management, review, and stakeholder management skills, with high attention to detail, accountability, and follow-through; ability to coach or provide technical guidance to less-experienced team members.

Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; hands-on experience with ERP and financial reporting systems such as SAP and Oracle EPM, and with GRC, audit management, or financial close tools such as AuditBoard, Optro, BlackLine, or equivalent platforms, is preferred.

Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, up to approximately 25%, b