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The SOX Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day function of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance efforts, including oversight for establishing and maintaining internal controls, compliance, audits, policies and procedures, ensuring risks and controls are properly documented and issues are appropriately raised. This position works directly with business process owners on the implementation of SOX controls, including business process re-design, policies, procedures, documentation, evidence evaluation, and system enhancements.
Responsibilities:
- Work with process and control owners to develop detailed documentation of SOX controls and processes utilizing Visio (flowcharts), MS Word (narratives), or similar solutions; administer versioning; produce control change reports.
- Work directly business process owners to organize and facilitate the implementation of SOX controls, including business process redesign, policies, procedures, documentation, evidence evaluation, and system enhancements. Assess new processes, or changes to existing processes to identify financial risks before launch, providing recommendations for improvement.
- Keep up to date with changes in regulations, governance and best practices. Review and update testing procedures and templates to ensure any changes in regulations, governance, or best practices are reflected and incorporated into testing.
- Resolve internal control issues and deficiencies through adept collaboration and facilitation skills with process and control owners.
- Provide assistance to the Controller and Internal Audit with drafting evaluations of SOX testing exceptions and deficiencies identified by internal and external auditors.
- Ensure risk assessment and control frameworks are in place and running effectively and efficiently.
Basic Qualifications:
- 4+ years at a public accounting firm or senior accountant/SOX manager (or equivalent) at a public company.
- Demonstrated ability to develop or maintain an effective financial governance and controls framework that defines the ways and methods governance is implemented, managed, and monitored in the business/group. The governance framework includes policies, guidelines and provides programs, practices and measures to promote transparency, accuracy, consistency across groups.
- Experience applying specialized knowledge of Accounting & Financial management risk, regulatory compliance and internal controls related to financial processes and information
- Demonstrated history, experience, knowledge and understanding of US GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and internal controls
- Demonstrated experience with the maintenance, monitoring, measurement & reporting on the status of the governance program to various internal & external stakeholder audiences
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications:
- CPA preferred
- Big 4 background with proficiency in SOX audits
- Experience Management and implementation of SOX compliance in public company
- Experience providing advice and guidance to assigned business/groups on implementation of the governance framework, including effective challenges
Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.
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Mountain View, CA; Remote in USA /
Finance – Finance /
Full-time Exempt
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