Senior SOX Analyst
Job Title: Senior SOX Analyst
Duration: 6 months Contract
Location: Plano, TX 75024
Hybrid role
Bachelors degree: Mandatory in Accounting and Finance
Job Description:
What were looking for:
What youll be doing:
Duration: 6 months Contract
Location: Plano, TX 75024
Hybrid role
Bachelors degree: Mandatory in Accounting and Finance
Job Description:
What were looking for:
- SOX Program Management Office (SOX PMO) team is looking for a passionate and highly motivated Senior SOX analyst candidate.
- The primary responsibility of this role is to facilitate the annual assessment of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting for stand-alone reporting and as a subsidiary of Client.
- Reporting to the Manager SOX Compliance, the person in this role will support the SOX compliance departments objective to ensure financial reporting compliance.
What youll be doing:
- Execution of Annual SOX Audit
- Facilitate the assessment of control effectiveness for respective business units; work with process owners as needed to implement/modify controls to mitigate risk
- Assist processes owners in documentation of processes, controls, process flow and data flow documentation.
- Assist process owners in the identification of risks and design of controls
- Plan and coordinate SOX walkthroughs and testing performed by Internal and External Audit
- Coordinate with departmental SOX liaisons to ensure process consistency, consolidate status, and identify items for escalation
- Meet with process owners to understand business processes and changes to control the environment
- Provide support for key SOX stakeholders (process owners, Internal Audit, External Audit, and senior management)
- Oversee document repository and adherence to retention policies
- Support quarterly sub-certification process
- Lead efforts to research testing exceptions and deficiency identification
- Perform root cause analysis with process owners to identify the source of deficiencies.
- Coordinate and lead remediation efforts for respective business units; develop action plans and monitor efforts for remediation.
- Prepare deficiency reporting for upper management andincluding analysis for potential financial impact.
- Perform continuous improvement efforts to ensure the design of controls is improved to mitigate the risk of fraud, human error, and other design deficiencies.
- Ensure ongoing communication with process owners for key SOX deliverables and support ongoing operation of controls.
- Assist/lead special projects with financial reporting impact.
- Serve as subject matter expert for financial reporting risks and controls.
- Four-Year College Degree (BA or BS] - Accounting (business/finance) Audit background
- 5-10 Years of relevant work experience min of 5 yrs
- Familiarity with Audit, Sarbanes Oxley, COSO, GRC methodologies and frameworks
- Strong written and oral communication
- Strong analytical skills, initiative; ability to multi-task
- Ability to develop strong partnerships and influence people
- Ability to work with ambiguous or changing work situations, tasks, assignments
- Ability to quickly learn new applications or software tools
- A high degree of organizational skills with the ability to work in a deadline driven environment
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office software: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams
- Lucid or other process flow software
- Attention to detail and provide accurate data
- Work collaboratively with team members
- Meet regular performance expectations
- Advance degree (Master of Accounting / MBA)
- CPA / CIA / CFE
- Financial Services, banking, or automotive industry experience.
- Archer Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) Software
- These questions are a mandatory to be answered and should be included in the resumes
