Senior Accounting Analyst, SOX Compliance

Role Overview

• Ensure consistency in control design, documentation standards, and execution across all regions by establishing clear expectations, reviewing control language for precision, and promoting alignment in how controls are evidenced and maintained.
• Oversee AuditBoard governance, including timely control updates, certifications, proper archiving of prior-year controls, user access oversight, and identification of system enhancements to improve efficiency and reporting accuracy.
• Drive the Annual Design Assessment (ADA) process by coordinating timelines, reviewing submissions for quality and completeness, challenging control design where necessary, and ensuring updates are appropriately reflected in the system.
• Evaluate the SOX impact of system implementations, organizational changes, process redesigns, acquisitions, and other business transformations to determine scoping implications, new control requirements, or modifications to existing controls.
• Ensure deficiencies are properly evaluated, supported with sufficient evidence, and aggregated in accordance with SOX methodology, including root cause analysis, severity assessment, and alignment with management’s conclusion.
• Support walkthroughs and PBC coordination by preparing documentation, aligning control owners on expectations, facilitating auditor discussions, and proactively addressing follow-up inquiries to minimize rework.
• Strengthen IPE governance and key report testing by ensuring completeness and accuracy procedures are clearly documented, reports are appropriately validated, and testing standards are applied consistently across manual and automated controls.
• Identify and deliver SOX training requirements by assessing knowledge gaps (particularly for new control owners), developing targeted training materials, and providing ongoing education to reinforce accountability, documentation standards, and control awareness.

Requirements

• Three or more years’ experience with SOX 404 compliance and internal controls evaluation that followed a controls framework, including all phases of evaluation, documentation, testing, and remediation.
• The ideal person will have either public accounting or combination of public & industry (public company) internal audit experience.
• Prior experience of US owned groups.
• Strong background in financial accounting and audit.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Able to work to tight deadlines, within a small team.
• Proficient process facilitation, project management, and analytical skills.
• Experience navigating and leading in environments of transformation/change.

Benefits

• full health insurance (medical, dental and vision)
• 401(k)
• life insurance
• disability
• opportunity to participate in a company incentive plan