Manager, SOX Compliance – Second Line of Defense

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kentucky.

📋 Description

• Oversee SOX workstreams, remediation initiatives, control readiness activities, and governance routines.

• Evaluate control design, narratives, risk and control matrices, flowcharts, key report documentation, as well as procedures for completeness and accuracy, and management review control evidence.

• Collaborate with first line control owners to clarify expectations, aid in root cause analysis, address deficiencies, and prepare for walkthroughs, testing, and external audit inquiries.

• Conduct quality reviews of control evidence and remediation support to ensure that documentation is comprehensive, precise, repeatable, and ready for audits.

• Monitor deficiency remediation progress, identify slippage or recurring themes, escalate risks, and prepare status updates for SOX leadership and governance forums.

• Assist in quarterly certification activities and contribute to deficiency evaluation inputs.

• Support control owner training, execution of the SOX calendar, and management reporting.

• Provide guidance on control implications related to process redesign, system changes, automation opportunities, new reporting tools, and evolving business processes.

• Foster enhanced ownership, accountability, and consistency across decentralized or evolving finance and operational control environments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.

• CPA, CIA, CISA, or an equivalent certification is preferred.

• Over 6 years of experience in SOX, internal controls, audit, risk advisory, controllership, or compliance for public companies.

• Strong working knowledge of SOX 404, COSO, ICFR concepts, support for deficiency evaluation, remediation tracking, and expectations from external audits.

• Experience in reviewing or testing controls related to financial close, journal entries, account reconciliations, revenue, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, treasury, payroll, inventory, or IT-dependent processes.

• Ability to constructively challenge control owners, drive issue resolution, and communicate control risks clearly and practically.

• Excellent project management skills with the capacity to handle multiple deadlines, stakeholders, evidence requests, and remediation milestones.

• Experience in supporting SOX remediation in a public company or an environment undergoing accelerated control transformation is an added advantage.

• Preference for candidates with experience in public accounting, internal audit, risk advisory, or controllership.

• Expertise in ERP and EPM systems, such as Oracle, NetSuite, FCCS, or ARCS.

• Experience working within decentralized control environments, shared services, or multi-location operations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits.

• Paid time off.

• Holiday pay.

• Early access to 50% of earned wages at any time through the myFlexPay program.