IT Compliance Manager

Job Description:

There’s never been a better time to join our team. The thousands of ESAB associates located around the world share a common set of goals and values that drive our success and unparalleled innovation in fabrication technology and specialty gas control equipment. At ESAB, we value and respect everyone’s uniqueness and know that our experiences as individuals strengthen our company. And we know that our ability to collaborate, transform, and empower one another is what makes us unstoppable.

With our culture of continuous improvement and innovation and our commitment to living our values, working at ESAB is a career experience like no other. We have more than 9,000 passionate associates in locations across six continents, and we empower our team members to shape the world we imagine every day.

If you have a strong desire to be part of a team that delivers cutting-edge innovations and solutions and positively impacts the community, please check out our career opportunities. We help serve a diverse range of industries such as healthcare, automotive, aerospace, renewable energy, robotics, shipbuilding, and so much more.

ESAB’s History:

ESAB is a fabrication technology leader with an unparalleled global footprint, track record of industry-leading product innovations, and strong positions in attractive emerging markets. The company has successfully executed its operational improvement strategy to out-grow peers in recent years and significantly increase margins and cash flow. Through strategic bolt-on acquisitions, ESAB has broadened its product and technology offering, extended its geographic reach, and expanded into attractive new segments with locations in more than 50 countries, 9000 employees and expected revenue of approximately $2.2 billion in 2021. The story of ESAB is the story of welding. When our founder Oscar Kjellberg developed the world's first coated welding electrode in 1904, he launched a company whose innovation and uncompromising standards have helped create the history of welding itself. For more than 100 years, ESAB has been powered by the will to continuously seek new and improved ways of serving our customers. This has made ESAB a world leader in consumable products and equipment for use in the cutting, joining and automated welding, as well as gas control equipment, providing a wide range of products with innovative technologies to solve challenges in a wide range of industries. We have a global footprint, with production facilities in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and Middle East & Africa.

Position Summary:

The role of an IT Compliance Manager is pivotal in ensuring that our organization adheres to regulatory standards, mitigates risks, and maintains robust governance processes. As an integral part of our team, you will collaborate closely with IT Organization, internal audit staff and external service providers to drive excellence in technology, cybersecurity, and regulatory audits. Reporting directly to the Sr. Director of Cybersecurity & Compliance, you will play a critical role in enhancing our operational effectiveness. The individual we seek is intellectually curious with a demonstrated background in continuous improvement in IT processes and outcomes. They will have strong technical acumen, and a collaborative style. This role offers opportunities to work in an international environment, across a diverse and fast-changing technology and digital environment and develop relationships with senior management. ESAB is a global company with significant revenues and employees outside the United States, so willingness and excitement to embrace global exposure is necessary for success in the role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deep understanding of Sarbanes Oxley and ITGC requirements.

• Oversight of ITGC control performance, including timeliness, quality and appropriateness of the different IT Regional and Global teams.

• Develop summarized Compliance status reports to key IT and business leadership.

• Develop and update standard operating procedures to meet control performance requirements. Prepare high quality IT Compliance deliverables including planning memo, drafts of audit issues, IT Compliance periodic reports, and presentations.

• Identify best practices and improvements to advance risk management, governance, and control processes.

• Play a critical role in ensuring controls are designed up front during system implementation projects. Collaborate with Internal and External auditors to schedule and coordinate resources as needed, to ensure the timely completion of IT audits.

• Collaborate with IT Leadership and IT Technical managers to perform pre- and post- implementation reviews of system implementations or enhancements. IT security audits (e.g., network, operating system, and data center), including evaluating of security risks are properly identified and mitigated. Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of IT control processes and procedures for various operational, financial and compliance processes.

• Collaborate with Audit Staff (internal, external or co-sourced) and IT Global, Regional, and technical leaders in the planning and execution of IT audit controls testing.

• Interface between IT Internal teams and Internal/External audit teams.

• Partner with internal and external auditors in the evaluation of automated controls for internal control over financial reporting (ICFR) that are supported by IT systems – Sarbanes Oxley

• Collaborate with IT regional and technical leaders to improve control performance by leveraging automation by reducing execution time, improve quality or automate tasks.

• Develop strong, collaborative working relationships across all levels of the Company; maintain ongoing and constant communications with key stakeholders including the company’s independent auditors.

• Participate in special projects, including acquisition due diligence and integration activities.

Required Experience & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, computer science or a related field.

• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) strongly preferred.

• 8+ years of overall experience, with minimum 5+ years of demonstrated experience in ITGC in global companies preferred

• A deep understanding of IT control processes including information security, access controls, change management and IT operations among others

• Understanding of information security standards, best practices for securing computer systems and applicable laws and regulations

• Understanding of third-party assurance reports (SOC1,2,3)

• Understanding of multiple technology domains including, Windows, database management, networking, and UNIX (preferred)

• Excellent leadership, written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills

• Ability to maintain a positive attitude and embrace change, thrive in a fast-paced environment

• Strong analytical, problem solving, and influencing skills to drive IT internal controls strategy and build effective partnerships across the company

• Travel required, domestic and international, approximately 20%

Preferred:

• Understanding of manufacturing industry

• Candidates local to Bethesda, MD will be given priority

• Experience with Oracle, SAP, or large ERP Systems

• Experience working with third party IT service providers

Competencies & Behaviors Needed:

• Exceptional communicator at all employee levels including senior executives.

• Strong proponent of ESAB’s values and behaviors

• Drives continuous improvement

• Effective at building relationships, trust

• Strong collaboration skills across functions and business platforms

• Negotiates with associates with a respectful give-and-take approach, where decisions are shared

• Comfortable working in a global matrix organization

• Results-oriented with the ability to make decisions and to follow through on programs and policies which have been developed

• Bias for action; a sense of urgency; self-starter; moves with speed

• Focus on delivering results and continuous improvement

• Manages workload efficiently and effectively

• Agile mind; quick on one’s feet

• Prioritizes for maximum impact

• Good at synthesizing data and distilling key points

• Can dive deep into detail to support root cause analysis, yet understands the big picture

• Insightful, deductive reasoner, fact-based problem solver

• Influencing and driving performance without authority

Additional Key Attributes:

• Integrity, credibility, and character with demonstrated ethical behaviors

• A team player and leader with the self-confidence, humility, and consultative skills to positively influence the business

• A tenacious, operationally minded individual with a strong work ethic

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO):
As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of sex, color, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, age, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), religion, military/veteran status, national origin, marital status, family or caregiver responsibilities, or any other characteristic or status protected by law.