Thursday, July 25, 2013

[WNO] Digest Number 1618

Westchester Networking Organization Group

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Digest #1618

Vice President – - Internal Audit Luxury Retail - Mountain L by "Keith Bogen SPHR" hrslugger2002

Senior Manual Tester contract position in Stamford, CT by "John Barry" itechjohn

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1 Vice President – - Internal Audit Luxury Retail - Mountain L

Wed Jul 24, 2013 6:55 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Keith Bogen SPHR" hrslugger2002

Vice President - Internal Audit
Luxury Retail
Mountain Lakes, NJ.
**Must have strong multi-national experience
Our client, a prominent luxury retailer, is currently seeking a VP - Internal Audit. Reporting to the SVP-CFO and the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, the VP - Internal Audit is responsible for the development and execution of a responsive internal audit plan, supporting company-wide initiatives focused on maintaining a strong control environment globally, and serving as a liaison with the companys external audit firm.

Responsibilities:
Risk Assessment/Risk Management:
·        Lead department efforts to employ and continually enhance its risk-based audit approach, as well as further enhancements to the Risk Assessment process.
Audit Accountability:
·        Lead department efforts to ensure that the audit approach focuses on key business risks and business processes.
·        Focus on areas of high potential value-add or which result in enhanced management of key business risks.
·        Ensure appropriate coverage of non-retail and international operations
·        Report findings which clearly articulate the risks and include recommendations which are pragmatic and actionable.
·        Manage external vendor relationships (i.e., co-sourcing) to ensure appropriate expertise and service quality are provided as necessary
·        Implement tools which leverage technology to gain efficiency in more routine areas such as retail transactional and operational controls.
Investigation and Special Project Accountability:
·        Lead departments investigation efforts, ensuring investigations are comprehensive, balanced, with objectively presented findings considering broader business implications.
·        Lead and/or participate on special projects to provide value-add to the business, enhance management's risk management and/or compliance processes, or improve departmental operations.
Staff Development:
·        Ensure effective processes to support employee engagement and staff development
·        Continually evaluate skill set needs relative to department capabilities and identify methods to address any identified gaps
·        Provide guidance to department personnel on career progression, including mobility outside of the department.
Budget Accountability:
·        Develop and manage annual departmental budget, including internal staffing and external resource requirements and execute annual audit plan and other activities within the approved budget.

Required Qualifications:
·        15+ years of experience in public accounting or equivalent experience in a multinational corporate internal audit environment.
·        Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance or related business discipline.
·        Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
·        Previous management experience.
·        Excellent verbal, written and mathematical skills
·        Organizational savvy/comfortable working with Senior Management.

Preferred:
·        Retail industry experience.
·        MBA or advanced degree.

If qualified, e-mail resume & current compensation to: elisa.sheftic@rightexecutivesearch.com.

Elisa Sheftic
President & Managing Partner
Right Executive Search, LLC

http://www.linkedin.com/in/elisasheftic *Feel free to connect on linkedin*

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2 Senior Manual Tester contract position in Stamford, CT

Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:14 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"John Barry" itechjohn

Title: Sr. Manual Tester

Job Type: Contract

Location: Stamford, CT

Duration: 4 months

Overview

Our client is seeking a Sr. Manual Tester for a new enterprise content
management application (Alfresco) that will be replacing their current ECM
application (Documentum). The test resource will be required to attend daily
meetings, develop a test plan, functional matrix, and provide daily status
in an Agile development process that will be used with 5-7 sprints. Test
procedures will be documented in Quality Center and Bug tracking will be
done in Jira. This individual will be the only tester on the project so the
successful candidate needs to be able to review requirements, attend
meetings and ask the right questions in an effort to fully understand how
they need to test the application.

Skills and Qualifications:

. At least 5 years of strong manual testing experience (No
automation testing is required on this project)

. Bachelors Degree preferred

. Agile environment would be a plus.

. Ability to learn quickly, Self-starter with a lot of initiative
and excellent verbal and communications skills.

Interested candidate should email <mailto:john@itechcp.com>
john@itechcp.com their resume, current rate, target rate and how they match
the requirements.

Best Regards,

John Barry
ITech Consulting Partners
30 Church Hill Road
Newtown, CT 06470
203-270-0051 Ext: 301
203-270-0071 Fax
john@itechcp.com
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