SOX Program Manager POST NUMBER: 402978
About the Company: Publicly Traded SaaS Company
Title: SOX Program Manager
Location: San Diego - Hybrid
Salary: $150k-180k (DOE) Bonus RSUs
Description: Senior Manager will partner closely with the Internal Audit team members and cross functionally with stakeholders to deliver the SOX program on time and on budget while increasing awareness and accountability over SOX controls. You are a driven Manager who is looking to apply their auditing experience and project management expertise to deliver the Internal Audit SOX program.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement the annual SOX program schedule and key milestones. Identify and remove barriers to sustain program velocity.
- Develop and drive the SOX communication and education plan to provide regular status updates and enhance stakeholder understanding of the SOX program and new requirements.
- Distill complex topics in simple terms and inspire transformational improvement in internal controls.
- Assist in the creation and alignment on regular SOX Executive, Audit Committee and Disclosure Committee materials to provide an update of the overall SOX program.
- Assess, benchmark and research SOX and audit requirements to provide a point of view on audit requirements related to SOX controls.
- Manage multiple “special projects” under the umbrella of the SOX program (that are cross-functional and multi-disciplinary), serving in a project leadership capacity.
- Assemble project teams, collaborate on individual responsibilities, develop project schedules, determine resources needed to achieve milestones and overall objectives/outcomes, execute project requirements and communications.
- Assist in the planning, scoping and execution of walkthroughs and testing primarily for business process controls.
- Review testing exceptions, facilitate the remediation of control gaps, and escalate critical issues to senior management.
- Collaborate with the SOX IT Program Manager, to develop and provide regular status reporting of the overall SOX program to senior management.
- Maintain our SOX management tool, AuditBoard, to ensure it represents the most up to date status.
- Manage co-sourced vendor budgets, expectations and workpaper delivery from both the technical and program perspective to ensure alignment with plan, quality and internal audit expectations.
Qualifications:
- 10 years of relevant audit and SOX experience, Fintech or Software industry experience preferred.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Accounting, Business) or equivalent work experience.
- CPA or CA certifications preferred.
- Experience managing a SOX program along with strong GAAP, business process, risk, and control knowledge beyond SOX.
- Must possess strong attention to detail, excellent organizational and multitasking skills.
- Excellent written communication, oral communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to engage, influence action, and drive change.
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
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