Senior Financial Compliance Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Execute comprehensive and systematic audits of employee expense reports to ensure adherence to Stanford Health Care’s expense policies, IRS regulations, and relevant healthcare industry standards.

• Assess expense submissions for precision, suitable documentation, proper authorization, and conformity with organizational spending policies and thresholds.

• Detect trends of non-compliance, policy deviations, or potential fraud indicators within expense transactions and escalate findings as necessary.

• Maintain and continually update a detailed library of internal controls documentation for the Controller’s Office, which includes control narratives, risk and control matrices, and supporting evidence.

• Create, sustain, and enhance process maps for essential accounting and finance workflows, ensuring documentation accurately represents current operations and control activities.

• Identify control deficiencies, weaknesses, or design flaws through documentation reviews and walkthroughs, and propose corrective actions.

• Act as a primary liaison for internal and external auditors, assisting with walkthroughs, providing requested documentation, and coordinating timely responses to audit inquiries.

• Undertake additional responsibilities as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• A minimum of four (4) years of progressively responsible experience in compliance, internal audit, accounting, or a related area within a complex organization.

• Direct experience collaborating with internal and external auditors, including preparing audit support and facilitating audit walkthroughs.

• Practical knowledge of internal controls frameworks and their application to financial reporting and operational compliance processes.

• Strong grasp of general internal controls best practices, risk assessment methodologies, and audit evidence standards.

• Proven ability to conduct thorough and impartial expense report audits, identify policy deviations, and communicate findings professionally to stakeholders at all levels.

• Expertise in developing clear, accurate, and well-organized process maps and controls documentation.

• Strong analytical and investigative abilities with keen attention to detail and the capability to spot anomalies, patterns, and control gaps in financial data.

• Competence in managing multiple concurrent audit and documentation workstreams while meeting deadlines in a complex, matrixed healthcare organization.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the aptitude to prepare clear audit findings reports and present results to finance leadership.

• CPA - Certified Public Accountant preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• Supportive work environment promoting work-life balance.

• Competitive salary with performance-based incentives.