Analyst ITS Risk and Compliance

As a Fortune 500 company, Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is an ideas and solutions company.  Our corrugated packaging business seeks to be the leader in helping our customers — large and small — package, transport and display products of all kinds.  Our white paper business delivers Paper With Purpose by providing the highest level of customer service and operational excellence.  We have approximately 15,000 team members in more than 100 locations in the United States that strive to meet the local needs of our customers.  Our mission is to serve the needs of our customers, today and tomorrow, with products and services that exceed expectations for performance and environmental responsibility.

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This position is a contract to hire position, based out of the PCA corporate office in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Position Purpose Summary: 

ITS Risk Management Associate supports all areas of PCA’s IT administration and financial services at the corporate, mill, and plant level. The position of Associate, ITS Risk Management exists to assist management with audit support functions; including assisting with policy and procedure management, audit evidence support and reviews, and liaison activities between PCA, Internal Audit, External Audit and various PCA business units.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Assist in maintaining PCA’s policies and procedures in support of IT Systems’ Internal Control Standards.
• Assist in providing evidence to Internal and External audit for General IT Controls (GITC) Test of Design (ToD), Test of Operating Effectiveness (TOE), roll-forward and end of year audits.
• Provide and/or request time-sensitive reports etc. used in the support of audit evidence.
• Perform and support other management initiatives including but not limited to: User Reviews, Management, Testing, Disaster Recovery, SOC Reports and Data Center reviews.
• Responsible for knowing and following policies and procedures of the company; for sharing information that would benefit other members of the team; and for finding ways to improve the delivery of service to our customers.
• Continually strive to strengthen PCA’s business philosophy of meeting needs and exceeding expectation for customers. This includes supporting PCA’s Commitment to Service which involves doing what’s right for our customers, focusing on strategies that add value and support growth, and keeping the promises that we make.

Decision Making:

Strong decision-making skills are required to ensure that all business units follow PCA’s policies and procedures. Understand and identify if any processes could be improved according to all Federal, State, Local, CIS, SOX requirements.

Interactions with Customers and Contacts:

Must be able to interact effectively and professionally with all levels of plant and corporate personnel and external auditors. Internally, this position primarily interacts with IT, Financial, and Audit teams. Externally, this position regularly interacts with PCA’s external audit partner(s).

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• One to two years previous work experience in IT, audit, risk management or financial sector.
• Ability to learn the following technical areas:

• Network security: Active Directory.
• Application security: User provisioning, de-provisioning, authentication, and general security for specified financial applications.
• Change Management procedures for specified financial applications.
• Change Development procedures for new development/software acquisitions for specified financial applications.
• Data Center: Environmental, Logical & Physical Security, Backup Recovery, and Disaster Recovery.
• Service Level Agreements and SOC reports for specified outsourced IT functionality.

• Proficient in current Windows Operating Systems, Word, Excel, MS Teams, Visio, and SharePoint.
• Strong organizational skills to handle numerous details, deadlines, and requests.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with individuals throughout the company on departmental procedures, policies, and requests for information.
• Ability to adapt to and work effectively and independently in a fast paced, multitasking environment.
• Ability to evaluate and prioritize tasks for efficiency and completeness.
• Must be extremely organized and extremely detail oriented.

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All qualified applicants must apply at Careers.packagingcorp.com to be considered.

PCA is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories.