Lead SOX Risk Advisor

Lead Sox Risk Advisor

Come join Intuit as a Lead SOX Risk Advisor within the SOX Risk and Compliance Organization (SRCO). SRCO is a newly established function, in the Controllership, Assurance and Operations organization, focused on enabling a modern, sustainable, and effective SOX program. SRCO plays a critical role in enabling Intuit's continued growth with a strong foundation of financial compliance, risk management, and operational excellence. Within SRCO, the SOX Risk Advisory team acts as strategic advisors to business process owners, control owners, and our Technology Compliance and Risk Management Organization (TCRM) to ensure financial reporting integrity and readiness for business change.

In this high-impact role, reporting to the Senior Manager of SOX Risk Advisory, you'll drive strategic SOX readiness projects and provide risk advisory expertise across many process areas to ensure compliance with SOX while enabling process excellence. You'll play a key role in strengthening the control environment and maintaining Intuit's financial integrity.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an end-to-end process and control expert advising control and process owners on SOX requirements, risk assessment, control design, and optimization strategies.
• Drive the readiness intake and assessment process of new initiatives or business transformations to identify the relevant financial statement risks, financial statement line items, and SOX implications with clear rationale.
• Develop, drive, and execute detailed project plans to ensure SOX readiness projects are delivered on time and with high quality, resulting in well-designed and effective controls.
• Draft risk and control matrices (RCMs), including key systems, tools, and service providers, based upon review of management's artifacts (i.e. process documentation, dataflow diagrams, etc.) and walkthroughs across stakeholder groups.
• Design and execute testing to ensure control evidence and scope are sufficient and aligned with risk.
• Manage the deficiency evaluation process including root cause analysis, management action plan development, and remediation monitoring and validation.
• Partner with process owners and control owners to drive awareness and understanding of SOX requirements and protocols, control design requirements, and enterprise control strategy.
• Challenge and optimize control design decisions while balancing business objectives and risk mitigation.
• Lead with an extreme sense of ownership and forward-looking mindset to drive operational excellence and continuous improvement within our control environment.
• Proactively lead and influence cross-functionally and at all levels of management. Cultivate strong relationships with leaders in Accounting, Finance, and across the Business in order to facilitate timely, high-quality decision-making in connection with the SOX control environment and related financial risk.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant work experience in Big 4 Public Accounting, risk consulting, and/or in SOX industry experience, Fintech or Software industry experience preferred.
• BA/BS degree in Accounting, Finance or related field. CPA required. CIA or MBA is a plus.
• Must be able to come to Atlanta, San Diego or Mountain View offices 3 times a week.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting risk, internal controls (business process and ITGC), and PCAOB requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate new processes or changes to processes, assess and identify potential financial reporting risks and advise on optimal control design.
• Must possess strong attention to detail, excellent organizational and multitasking skills in order to work flexibly across stakeholders and navigate a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in order to articulate a complex problem and independently provide a clear, data-backed recommendation.
• Ability to simplify complex concepts into clear and action-oriented communications and work through ambiguity, with confidence in making tough calls and leading through adversity with a sharp focus on driving the right outcomes.
• Ability to proactively look ahead, identify and resolve roadblocks, think creatively to achieve the best outcomes, and elevate issues to the right level when needed, to resolve.
• Hands-on experience with SOX readiness, automation or transformation initiatives is a plus.