Sr. Financial Compliance Analyst (Remote)

What You Will Do

• Conduct thorough and systematic audits of employee expense reports to ensure compliance with Stanford Health Care’s expense policies, IRS regulations, and applicable healthcare industry guidelines.
• Review expense submissions for accuracy, appropriate documentation, proper authorization, and alignment with organizational spending policies and thresholds.
• Identify patterns of non-compliance, policy exceptions, or potential fraud indicators across expense transactions and escalate findings appropriately.
• Maintain and continuously update a comprehensive library of internal controls documentation for the Controller’s Office, including control narratives, risk and control matrices, and supporting evidence.
• Develop, maintain, and refine process maps for key accounting and finance workflows, ensuring documentation accurately reflects current-state operations and control activities.
• Identify control gaps, weaknesses, or design deficiencies through documentation reviews and walkthroughs, and recommend remediation actions.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for internal and external auditors, facilitating walkthroughs, providing requested documentation, and coordinating timely responses to audit inquiries.
• Add additional duties as assigned.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field.

Experience

• Four (4) or more years of progressively responsible experience in compliance, internal audit, accounting, or a related field within a complex organization.
• Experience working directly with internal and external auditors, including preparation of audit support and facilitation of audit walkthroughs.

Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Working knowledge of internal controls framework and its application to financial reporting and operational compliance processes.
• Strong understanding of general internal controls best practices, risk assessment methodologies, and audit evidence standards.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct thorough and objective expense report audits, identify policy exceptions, and communicate findings professionally to stakeholders at all levels.
• Proficiency in developing clear, accurate, and well-organized process maps and controls documentation.
• Strong analytical and investigative skills with high attention to detail and the ability to identify anomalies, patterns, and control gaps within financial data.
• Able to manage multiple concurrent audit and documentation workstreams while meeting deadlines in a complex, matrixed healthcare organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear audit findings reports and present results to finance leadership.

Licenses and Certifications

• CPA - Certified Public Accountant preferred.