Senior Associate, Internal Controls - Miami, FL

About the role

Join a team that values your ambition and empowers your growth. At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations. We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team.

Requirements

• Experience: Minimum of 4–6 years of relevant experience in public accounting, internal audit, SOX/ICFR compliance, accounting, risk management, or a related controls-focused role.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field. Experience working in or supporting a public company SOX/ICFR environment required. Prior experience with a Big 4 or large national public accounting firm preferred. CPA, CIA, or other relevant certification preferred.
• Strong understanding of ICFR, SOX requirements, and control design principles.
• Experience maintaining risk and control matrices, process narratives, flowcharts, and control documentation.
• Experience coordinating control testing activities and tracking remediation efforts.
• Familiarity with financial reporting processes and accounting risks.
• Experience working with internal and external auditors.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and documentation quality.
• Experience with MetricStream, AuditBoard, Workiva, or similar GRC platforms preferred.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, system implementations, or business process transformations preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the execution of the Company's ICFR compliance program, including control documentation, testing coordination, issue tracking, and status reporting.
• Maintain and update risk and control matrices, process narratives, and control inventories.
• Partner with process owners to evaluate control design, identify control gaps, and recommend control enhancements.
• Cook up requests and documentation required for internal and external audits.
• Absorb requests for audit support activities.
• Monitor and track remediation plans for identified control deficiencies.
• Perform control design evaluations and support management's assessment of control effectiveness.
• Support the development and maintenance of accounting policies, control procedures, and governance documentation.
• Absorb evaluation of the internal control impact of new systems, process changes, acquisitions, and organizational initiatives.
• Prepare reports, dashboards, and status updates related to control testing and remediation activities.
• Review documentation for completeness, accuracy, and consistency.
• Serve as a trusted advisor regarding internal control requirements and best practices.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen the overall control framework and audit readiness.

Physical Requirements

This position requires the physical capabilities to work in an office environment, which may include prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Corient seeks to make reasonable accommodations that enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties when possible.

U.S. Eligibility Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.
• For U.S. employment opportunities, Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill.
• Corient participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment.
• Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, which require, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure.

What You Can Expect From Us

Our dedication to the Employee Experience at Corient is aimed at supporting, empowering, and inspiring our talented team through:

• 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching
• Four Medical Plan options that is generously subsidized by Corient
• Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability
• Paid Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts
• Dependent Care FSA
• Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot
• Training Reimbursement
• Paid Professional Designations
• Giving back to the community - Volunteer days

Corient

Corient is the world’s largest multi-family office and non-bank wealth manager focused on serving ultra-high- and high-net-worth clients. As the industry’s only global professional services partnership, we combine the personal service and objectivity of a boutique with the scale and resources of a global institution. Our partnership model fosters collaboration over competition, bringing together the collective expertise of Corient to each relationship to deliver a transparent, client-first experience. As a fully integrated global firm, we deliver comprehensive solutions across investment management, wealth strategy and family office services to help clients simplify their lives, manage their wealth and establish lasting legacies.