Principal Specialist, Internal Controls (HYBRID)

Date Posted:

2025-03-07

Country:

United States of America

Location:

UT56: 8 Farm Springs 8 Farm Springs, Farmington, CT, 06034 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA. 

The following position is to join our RTX Enterprise Services Process and Systems Transformation (PST) organization:

RTX has an opening for a Principal Specialist, Internal Controls (Principal Specialist, Accounting and Controllership)  focused on  driving the oneRTX, Process & Systems Transformation.

RTX launched oneRTX focused on leveraging the scale of our three business units to improve collaboration, cost structure, productivity and performance.

The oneRTX: Process & Systems Transformation (PST) project is one of several major, multi-year initiatives under oneRTX that align to our goals as a company and optimize how we work, how we operate and how we deliver to our customers so that we can achieve our full potential.

The intent of oneRTX: PST is to harmonize processes, tools and metrics across RTX, while deploying a common enterprise resource management platform – SAP’s S/4 HANA. The result will be a common user experience across the businesses, real-time visibility into critical data, and automation of manual tasks to enable all employees to focus on value-add activities.  With processes optimized and harmonized, we can leverage our scale so teams across RTX can share resources, leverage talent seamlessly and identify efficiencies. We will reduce cost and effort and improve performance as we break down silos and establish consistent ways of working.

What you Will Do:

• The Internal Controls team will collaborate across various workstreams and business units to develop and design internal controls for upcoming S/4HANA deployments
• Participate in design workshops to ensure controls are maintained or strengthened in our future state processes
• Gather requirements, evaluate, recommend, and deploy enabling technologies to monitor and control user access roles and SAP process controls
• Support the design and implementation of the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) tool, focusing on internal controls
• Contribute to the creation and design of security groups for the Corporate eHUB SAP instance, establishing security standards for future deployments.
• Ability to travel up to 20%

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience in SAP Internal Controls and a bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent combination of related work experience and schooling in lieu of degree; Advanced degree and 2+ year’s related work experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g., pivot tables, advanced formulas), Word, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with SAP and/or other ERP systems (e.g., PRISM, JDEdwards, AO reporting).
• U.S. citizenship required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information related to this program/contract.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience with SAP Governance Risk and Compliance tool
• Experience in audit and internal controls.
• Familiarity with SAP implementations (ECC, S/4HANA) or other enterprise system deployments.
• Knowledge of security frameworks and security control measures.
• Experience in identifying and mitigating Segregation of Duties violations
• Ability to travel and participate in on-site workshops.

Additional Information: This position is grade P3, Principal Specialist, Internal Controls.

HYBRID: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite.  Location: Farmington, CT.  Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.

What We Offer:

Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition pr