Senior Manager – SOX Compliance

Senior Manager – SOX Compliance

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• CPA a plus
• 6-8 years of public accounting or strong SOX 404 experience (Big 4 preferred)
• Solid understanding of SOX 404 Controls, risk assessment, and control deficiency evaluation
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills

Responsibilities

• Understand the SOX process flows, narratives, risk and control matrices of business processes, and information technology platforms relevant to financial reporting. Assist in updating and maintaining these key documents on a consistent basis as the company continually grows organically and inorganically and changes.
• Evaluate the operational effectiveness of entity-level controls, business process key controls, and ITGCs in accordance with ICFR testing guidance.
• Perform control deficiency evaluation, determine remediation plan and hold discussions with key stakeholders.
• Update and manage the annual risk assessment and SOX 404 scoping for internal and external auditors to rely upon.
• Manage the quarterly SOX certification process.
• Develop and track Key Performance Indicators which are communicated to senior leadership.
• Communicate with external/internal auditors on SOX control issues or resolution of testing exceptions identified.
• Manage the various phases within the ongoing SOX program such as ongoing training of control owners and review of system implementations to provide input from a SOX requirements lens. Coordinate with multiple parties such as external consultants, assurance and advisory, corporate finance and control owners to ensure the SOX program is efficiently run and maximizes value to the enterprise.
• Identify opportunities for process and control improvements as part of reviewing the SOX process flows and attending SOX walkthrough meetings.
• Perform other duties or tasks as assigned or required.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA a plus