Senior Manager, SOX Program Management

Job Overview

Come join the Finance team as a Senior Manager on our SOX Compliance team. This role will report to the Director of SOX Compliance and Program Management and partner closely with the SOX Business Process and Technology team members.

Intuit’s Finance team drives business growth and profitability through strategic, financial and operational leadership. Internal Audit supports the achievement of Intuit’s goals through trusted partnerships, objective risk identification, and innovative audit services.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of Internal Audit’s management team and participate in the selection, supervision and development of talent within the Internal Audit department.
• Drive program level continuous improvement and control optimization with Corporate Accounting, Business Unit teams and leaders for business process controls.
• Lead benchmarking and other initiatives to shape innovative strategies to improve controls, make processes more efficient, effective, and/or reduce cycle time for SOX compliance.
• Lead the annual and ongoing SOX scoping process to identify any changes to the financial statement accounts, business processes, systems, applications, and manual or automated controls considered to be in-scope for the fiscal year.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and assess key risks that impact the financial statements.
• Coordinate and drive SOX program testing with co-sourced Internal Audit team members, External Audit team members, control owners, managers and executive management.
• Establish work plans, coordinate and oversee the overall SOX work effort, which includes planning and testing led by the SOX project team; proactively anticipate risks and opportunities and redirect or reallocate resources accordingly.
• Manage SOX-readiness control identification and testing for new business process areas with high accountability.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant audit and SOX experience, Fintech or Software industry experience preferred.
• 2+ years in a leadership role managing and developing a high-performing team.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Accounting, Business) or equivalent 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.
• Ability to proactively look ahead, anticipate questions, independently assess risk, and think critically and creatively to achieve the best outcome.
• Drives the right levels of accountability and shares responsibility for outcomes.
• Operates without boundaries to remove friction and builds credibility and trust.