Sr. Data Controls & SOX Consultant

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Data Controls & SOX Consultant with strong experience in financial data, data pipelines, SOX controls, and control testing.

The ideal candidate should have experience working with financial services, fintech, banking, accounting, or financial reporting environments and be able to bridge the gap between Data Engineering, Finance, and Internal Controls.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review and support financial data pipelines, data flows, integrations, and related processes.
• Identify risks and implement appropriate data and process controls.
• Ensure financial data is accurate, complete, reliable, traceable, and auditable.
• Implement controls around data ingestion, transformation, reconciliation, validation, and reporting.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, control narratives, SOPs, data-flow documentation, and Risk & Control Matrices (RCMs).
• Perform control design effectiveness and operating effectiveness testing.
• Collect and review evidence required for SOX and audit testing.
• Identify control deficiencies, gaps, and process weaknesses.
• Develop and support remediation plans and retest controls after remediation.
• Work closely with Data Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance, and Technology teams.
• Support SOX 404 compliance, audit readiness, and IPO/public-company readiness where applicable.

Required Skills:

• Strong experience with SOX 404, Internal Controls, IT/Data Controls, or Audit.
• Experience working with financial services, fintech, banking, accounting, or financial reporting data.
• Experience with data pipelines, ETL/ELT, integrations, and data flows.
• Experience implementing and testing controls over financial data pipelines and financial reporting data.
• Strong understanding of financial data controls, reconciliations, data quality, validation, completeness, and accuracy.
• Experience with control design and operating effectiveness testing.
• Experience identifying and remediating control deficiencies.
• Strong process and control documentation skills.
• Understanding of data governance and data lineage.
• Working knowledge of SQL and modern data platforms is preferred.
• Experience working with Finance, Accounting, Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance, and external auditors.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Experience:

• IPO readiness or SOX readiness projects.
• Public-company SOX environments.
• Financial reporting and accounting data.
• Data governance and financial data transformation programs.
• Experience supporting internal and external audits.