Senior Analyst, SOX and Internal Controls

Key Responsibilities

• Support the execution of the Company's SOX Section 404 compliance program.
• Maintain SOX documentation, including Risk and Control Matrices (RCMs), narratives, flowcharts, and control inventories.
• Care for SOX documentation, ensuring completeness, consistency, and compliance with SOX methodology.
• Prepare and update SOX documentation to reflect changes in business processes, systems, and organizational structure.
• Coordinate SOX requests, documentation updates, and evidence collection with business process owners.
• Monitor assigned SOX activities and follow up on outstanding deliverables to support timely completion of the annual compliance plan.
• Assist with maintaining SOX policies, templates, and documentation standards.
• Support periodic reviews of Delegation of Authority (DOA), financial reporting policies, and internal control documentation.
• Coordinate management's SOX testing activities for assigned business processes.
• Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls.
• Review supporting evidence to ensure it meets documentation standards.
• Track testing results, control deficiencies, and remediation activities.
• Coordinate with external auditors during walkthroughs, testing, and evidence requests.
• Assist in the annual SOX risk assessment and scoping process.
• Identify changes in business processes that may affect SOX compliance.
• Support the evaluation of control deficiencies and remediation plans.
• Monitor the status of remediation activities and report progress to management.
• Partner with business process owners to understand process changes and evaluate their impact on internal controls.
• Assist in identifying opportunities to strengthen internal controls and improve process efficiency.
• Promote consistent application of SOX methodologies and documentation standards across the organization.
• Support control design reviews for new systems, process improvements, and organizational changes.
• Prepare periodic SOX status reports and testing metrics for management.
• Maintain SOX issue logs, action item trackers, and testing schedules.
• Coordinate meetings and communications with process owners, Finance, IT, and external auditors.
• Escalate significant issues or delays to SOX management.
• Identify opportunities to improve SOX processes through standardization and automation.
• Support implementation of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) tools such as Workiva.
• Assist in improving reporting capabilities and documentation quality.
• Recommend process improvements that enhance efficiency while maintaining a strong control environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 4–6 years of experience in SOX compliance, internal audit, external audit, accounting, or risk management.
• Strong understanding of SOX Section 404, COSO, ICFR, financial reporting, ITGCs, and automated controls.
• Experience preparing or maintaining SOX documentation.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, CIA, CISA, or progress toward certification.
• Public accounting or internal audit experience.
• Public company SOX experience.
• Experience with Workiva or other GRC platforms.
• Experience with SAP or other ERP systems.
• Automotive or manufacturing industry experience.

Benefits

Healthcare + dental + vision benefits (Free for you/discounted for family)

401(k) options

Casual dress code + relaxed work environment

Culturally diverse, progressive atmosphere