Sarbanes-Oxley Manager
Reporting to the Vice President of Group SOX, this position is responsible for designing and executing a Sarbanes-Oxley (“SOX”) compliance programme, which includes appropriate planning, ongoing testing, assisting in remediation and internal reporting, and ensuring effective internal controls over financial reporting within the consolidated group of companies.
Your responsibilities will include:
- working independently to perform the assessment of internal controls over financial reporting to ensure compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“SOX”)
- providing risk and gap assessments on existing controls to develop an appropriate SOX testing plan
- working with strategic partners, to coordinate and test internal controls over financial reporting, to provide assurance of operating effectiveness; working with business process owners to ensure that identified deficiencies are resolved in a timely and effective manner
- performing SOX compliance risk and materiality assessments to ensure compliance with appropriate legislation and to provide adequate scoping and coverage of the SOX testing programme
- working closely with Management to ensure appropriate coverage for the SOX testing, including Entity Level controls, End User Controls, SSAE-16 reports review, Information Provided by Entity and IT General Controls
- working closely with our external auditors to ensure the programme meets their requirements in terms of scope, timing, approach to enhance reliance on SOX testing results and align conclusions
- scheduling and facilitating walkthroughs, reviewing management reliance testing and following-up on issues or deficiencies between operational risk management, external auditors, and the process control owners
Your qualifications and skills include:
- university degree in Business/Accounting with three to five years’ management experience in relation to process and management consulting, and a minimum of three years’ banking or financial services experience in risk or audit
- a professional accounting designation is required
- sound knowledge of US GAAP, SOX control frameworks and familiarity with control repository applications
- comprehensive knowledge of the best practices and principles with knowledge of SOX certification requirements
- strong project management skills and a demonstrated ability to manage changing priorities promptly
- knowledge and timely awareness of emerging issues relating to banking control environments
- knowledge of banking, wealth management and lending processes would be desired
- excellent relationship building, management, negotiating, influencing, and planning skills required
- ability to define deliverables, create budgets and project plans, align resources and specialists for project teams, manage audit projects, present final reports to business unit leaders and the jurisdiction Audit / SOX Steering Committees
Bermuda
Finance