Financial Systems Controls & Assurance Analyst

About the role

At EquipmentShare, we’re hiring a Financial Systems Controls & Assurance Analyst to join our team in Columbia, MO. This role is crucial in helping us design, build, implement, and improve scalable SOX-ready controls and assurance processes across financial systems and related business operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and improve scalable controls and assurance processes across financial systems, reporting platforms, operational workflows, and SOX-relevant business processes.
• Partner with Finance, IT, Analytics, Engineering, system administrators, and business stakeholders to design, execute, and enhance controls supporting financial reporting, including ITGCs, application controls, key reports, and system-generated data.
• Evaluate system and process changes to identify control impacts, embed appropriate control activities, and support sustainable operational readiness before go-live.
• Build and operationalize scalable workflows, evidence standards, control documentation, and ownership models that improve audit readiness and long-term process sustainability.
• Review system activity, reporting outputs, approvals, workflow data, and audit evidence to validate completeness, accuracy, authorization, and control effectiveness.
• Use SQL, reporting tools, spreadsheet analysis, and system data to support control validation, reconciliation, exception analysis, and audit support activities.
• Support access governance and related assurance activities, including user access reviews, privileged access considerations, segregation of duties (SoD), and access-related evidence validation.
• Partner with control owners, auditors, and business stakeholders to support walkthroughs, remediation efforts, process improvements, and scalable operational execution.
• Identify recurring control and operational pain points and drive practical improvements that reduce manual effort, strengthen control reliability, and improve process scalability.

Requirements

• Ability to work across technical and business teams, understand system behavior, and translate compliance requirements into practical operational solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to identify control gaps, implement process improvements, and drive remediation efforts through completion.
• Strong analytical, organizational, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Skills/Abilities

• Experience in a publicly traded company or SOX-regulated environment.
• Experience supporting financial systems, internally developed applications, ERP systems, reporting platforms, data warehouses, or system-generated reports used in financial reporting.
• Experience with tools such as Workiva, Jira, ServiceNow, Freshservice, Okta, CyberArk IGA, Snowflake, dbt, Looker, Tableau, Monday.com, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting remediation of SOX gaps related to access management, change management, application controls, system-generated reports, interfaces, or evidence retention.
• Familiarity with internal and external audit processes, control testing, deficiency evaluation, management responses, and remediation plan tracking.
• Understanding of financial processes such as revenue, accounts payable, inventory, fixed assets, fleet, procurement, payroll, or financial reporting.

Skills & Qualifications

• Ability to work across technical and business teams, understand system behavior, and translate compliance requirements into practical operational solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to identify control gaps, implement process improvements, and drive remediation efforts through completion.
• Strong analytical, organizational, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Education And Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in SOX compliance, IT controls, internal or external audit, financial systems, business process controls, or related assurance work.
• Strong understanding of SOX, ITGCs, logical access, change management, key reports, interfaces, application controls, and IT-dependent manual controls.
• Experience designing and evaluating controls, supporting audit walkthroughs, preparing evidence, and managing remediation activities.
• At least 2 years of experience using SQL for data analysis, reporting, reconciliation, and control validation activities.