Senior Manager, Sox Compliance- Second Line of Defense
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections when posting has real specific content.
We need to parse the job posting.
Company description: Driven Brands description. Not needed as heading? Possibly "About the role" or "About the company"? The instructions: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can include "About the role" heading with description of role? The job description includes responsibilities etc. We need to extract responsibilities, requirements, qualifications, skills, benefits, pay, schedule.
Let's identify content:
Job Description paragraph: "The Senior Manager, SOX Compliance will support the Director of SOX Compliance in executing the second line SOX function for a complex public company environment. This role will help advance the company’s broader ICFR governance framework, support timely and sustainable remediation of active material weaknesses, strengthen ongoing SOX program execution, and promote consistent control ownership across the business. The Senior Manager will serve as a hands-on senior control leader responsible for driving day-to-day accountability, improving control design and evidence quality, supporting risk-based monitoring activities, and preparing clear status reporting for Director review and executive leadership visibility. This role requires a hands-on, credible SOX leader who can operate strategically and tactically across both remediation priorities and the ongoing SOX compliance program while working under the direction of the Director of SOX Compliance. The Senior Manager will provide independent oversight and challenge to the first line, partner closely with Accounting, Finance, Operations, IT, Internal Audit, Legal, and external auditors, and help translate SOX and ICFR priorities into clear execution routines, timely follow-up, sufficient evidence, disciplined testing coordination, retesting readiness, and sustainable control improvements capable of withstanding external auditor and PCAOB scrutiny."
Then "How You Will Own It" bullet list (actually sentences). This is responsibilities.
Then "What You’ll Bring" bullet list (requirements/qualifications). Then "Added Fuel If You Have" (preferred qualifications). Then "Key Competencies:" (skills). Then benefits: "Get early access to 50% of your earned wages at any time through our myFlexPay program." That's a benefit. Also maybe other benefits not mentioned. Pay and schedule not mentioned, so we should not include Pay or Schedule sections.
We need to avoid boilerplate: EEO statement, etc. Remove that.
We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We need to decide sections:
- About the role: maybe a brief overview paragraph (the first paragraph under Job Description). Could be considered "About the role". We'll include that as prose.
- Responsibilities: the "How You Will Own It" list.
- Requirements: maybe combine "What You’ll Bring" (required) and "Added Fuel If You Have" (preferred) as qualifications? Could separate Requirements and Qualifications. But we can combine into Requirements (required) and Qualifications (preferred). However we need to follow instruction: use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can have Requirements (mandatory) and Qualifications (preferred). Skills: Key Competencies.
Benefits: myFlexPay.
We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Let's extract content precisely.
About the role paragraph: The first paragraph(s) before "How You Will Own It". That includes: "Job Description The Senior Manager, SOX Compliance will support the Director of SOX Compliance in executing the second line SOX function for a complex public company environment. This role will help advance the company’s broader ICFR governance framework, support timely and sustainable remediation of active material weaknesses, strengthen ongoing SOX program execution, and promote consistent control ownership across the business. The Senior Manager will serve as a hands-on senior control leader responsible for driving day-to-day accountability, improving control design and evidence quality, supporting risk-based monitoring activities, and preparing clear status reporting for Director review and executive leadership visibility. This role requires a hands-on, credible SOX leader who can operate strategically and tactically across both remediation priorities and the ongoing SOX compliance program while working under the direction of the Director of SOX Compliance. The Senior Manager will provide independent oversight and challenge to the first line, partner closely with Accounting, Finance, Operations, IT, Internal Audit, Legal, and external auditors, and help translate SOX and ICFR priorities into clear execution routines, timely follow-up, sufficient evidence, disciplined testing coordination, retesting readiness, and sustainable control improvements capable of withstanding external auditor and PCAOB scrutiny."
We could treat that as About the role.
Responsibilities: The bullet points under "How You Will Own It". Let's list them:
- Support the Director in implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving the second line SOX governance framework, including control standards, documentation expectations, deficiency evaluation protocols, issue management, and reporting routines.
- Support and coordinate ongoing SOX program activities, including preparing inputs for annual scoping and risk assessment, control rationalization, walkthrough planning, testing coordination, issue management, and program calendar management.
- Provide independent oversight and challenge over execution of remediation activities for active material weaknesses and significant control deficiencies, ensuring milestones remain realistic, evidence is sufficient, owners are accountable, action items are completed on time, and execution risks are escalated promptly.
- Support remediation and SOX governance across multiple concurrent workstreams, including monitoring issue aging, milestone tracking, dependency management, escalation of delays or evidence gaps to the Director, and preparation of supporting inputs for Director-led senior leadership, Audit Committee, and remediation steering committee reporting.
- Facilitate recurring SOX readiness reviews, control owner certifications, walkthrough preparedness, management review control quality assessments, testing status updates, and status reporting for Director review.
- Partner with Accounting, Finance, Operations, IT, and business leaders to redesign ineffective controls, strengthen precision of management review controls, improve evidence quality, and embed sustainable control ownership practices.
- Coordinate with Internal Audit and external auditors to align on scope, testing expectations, documentation standards, evidence requests, deficiency themes, and remediation validation requirements.
- Prepare analysis to support deficiency evaluation activities, including severity assessment, aggregation analysis, compensating control considerations, remediation status review, and readiness for management retesting and external auditor review.
- Develop and maintain SOX remediation dashboards, issue heat maps, control health metrics, and governance materials as supporting inputs for Director-led executive leadership, Disclosure Committee, Audit Committee, and remediation steering committee reporting.
- Evaluate the control impact of process changes, system implementations, automation initiatives, restructuring activities, new accounting policies, and significant business transactions.
- Coach and provide day-to-day guidance to SOX team members while reinforcing a high-accountability culture focused on quality, urgency, transparency, and sustainable control improvement.
We need to put each as
- .
Requirements (mandatory): "What You’ll Bring" list:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field; CPA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent certification strongly preferred.
- 8+ years of experience in SOX, internal controls, internal audit, external audit, controllership, risk advisory, or public company compliance.
- Deep knowledge of SOX 302/404 requirements, COSO framework, PCAOB expectations, deficiency assessment, ICFR governance, control testing, management review controls, and remediation validation in a public company environment.
- Demonstrated experience supporting SOX programs or leading remediation workstreams in a public company, Big Four, or complex multi-location environment.
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders, drive accountability across functions, and communicate complex control issues clearly and decisively.
- Strong understanding of finance processes, financial close, account reconciliations, management review controls, IT dependencies, key reports, and system-generated data.
Note: The first bullet includes "CPA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent certification strongly preferred." That's a preference but still part of required? It's listed under What You’ll Bring (required). We'll keep as is.
Qualifications (preferred): "Added Fuel If You Have" list:
- Direct experience executing, monitoring, tracking, reviewing, or supporting validation of SOX programs and remediation activities in a public company environment, including evidence review, deficiency evaluation, remediation status reporting, and external auditor coordination.
- Experience operating in a restatement, delayed filing, significant remediation, accelerated SOX transformation, or heightened auditor scrutiny environment.
- Big Four or national public accounting firm experience preferred.
- ERP and EPM expertise (e.g., Oracle, NetSuite, FCCS, ARCS).
- Experience supporting Audit Committee, Disclosure Committee, or executive-level SOX reporting.
Skills: "Key Competencies:" list:
- Executive presence, sound judgment, risk-based thinking, accountability, urgency, transparency, collaboration, change leadership, communication, project leadership, and ability to execute effectively under Director leadership while supporting both sustainable remediation outcomes and ongoing SOX program effectiveness.
We could split into separate items but it's a sentence with commas. Could treat as a list of competencies separated by commas. Might be better to split into
- each competency. However the instruction: use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. This is a list of competencies, so we should split.
Let's split: Executive presence; sound judgment; risk-based thinking; accountability; urgency; transparency; collaboration; change leadership; communication; project leadership; ability to execute effectively under Director leadership while supporting both sustainable remediation outcomes and ongoing SOX program effectiveness.
We'll make each as
- .
Benefits: "Get early access to 50% of your earned wages at any time through our myFlexPay program." That's a benefit. We'll put as
- maybe single item.
We should not include Pay or Schedule sections.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown.
Thus:
About the role
... (the paragraph)
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- ...
...
Qualifications
- ...
...
Skills
- Executive presence
- Sound judgment
- Risk-based thinking
- Accountability
- Urgency
- Transparency
- Collaboration
- Change leadership
- Communication
- Project leadership
- Ability to execute effectively under Director leadership while supporting both sustainable remediation outcomes and ongoing SOX program effectiveness
Benefits
- Get early access to 50% of your earned wages at any time through our myFlexPay program.
Check for any duplicated lines: ensure we didn't include boilerplate like EEO statement. We removed.
Check for any content we missed: maybe mention of "Headquartered in Charlotte, NC" etc. That's company description not role-specific; could be omitted as not required. The instructions: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Should we include company description? It's not under a heading but it's part of the posting. The instructions say we should reformat a job posting into clean, well-structured semantic HTML. Use headings for sections. The company description could be considered "About the company" but not in allowed headings list. However we could include it under About the role? Might be okay to include a brief paragraph about company under About the role? But the instructions say use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. We need to decide sections: - About the role: maybe a brief overview paragraph (the first paragraph under Job Description). Could be considered "About the role". We'll include that as prose. - Responsibilities: the "How You Will Own It" list. - Requirements: maybe combine "What You’ll Bring" (required) and "Added Fuel If You Have" (preferred) as qualifications? Could separate Requirements and Qualifications. But we can combine into Requirements (required) and Qualifications (preferred). However we need to follow instruction: use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can have Requirements (mandatory) and Qualifications (preferred). Skills: Key Competencies. Benefits: myFlexPay. We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Let's extract content precisely. About the role paragraph: The first paragraph(s) before "How You Will Own It". That includes: "Job Description The Senior Manager, SOX Compliance will support the Director of SOX Compliance in executing the second line SOX function for a complex public company environment. This role will help advance the company’s broader ICFR governance framework, support timely and sustainable remediation of active material weaknesses, strengthen ongoing SOX program execution, and promote consistent control ownership across the business. The Senior Manager will serve as a hands-on senior control leader responsible for driving day-to-day accountability, improving control design and evidence quality, supporting risk-based monitoring activities, and preparing clear status reporting for Director review and executive leadership visibility. This role requires a hands-on, credible SOX leader who can operate strategically and tactically across both remediation priorities and the ongoing SOX compliance program while working under the direction of the Director of SOX Compliance. The Senior Manager will provide independent oversight and challenge to the first line, partner closely with Accounting, Finance, Operations, IT, Internal Audit, Legal, and external auditors, and help translate SOX and ICFR priorities into clear execution routines, timely follow-up, sufficient evidence, disciplined testing coordination, retesting readiness, and sustainable control improvements capable of withstanding external auditor and PCAOB scrutiny." We could treat that as About the role. Responsibilities: The bullet points under "How You Will Own It". Let's list them: - Support the Director in implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving the second line SOX governance framework, including control standards, documentation expectations, deficiency evaluation protocols, issue management, and reporting routines. - Support and coordinate ongoing SOX program activities, including preparing inputs for annual scoping and risk assessment, control rationalization, walkthrough planning, testing coordination, issue management, and program calendar management. - Provide independent oversight and challenge over execution of remediation activities for active material weaknesses and significant control deficiencies, ensuring milestones remain realistic, evidence is sufficient, owners are accountable, action items are completed on time, and execution risks are escalated promptly. - Support remediation and SOX governance across multiple concurrent workstreams, including monitoring issue aging, milestone tracking, dependency management, escalation of delays or evidence gaps to the Director, and preparation of supporting inputs for Director-led senior leadership, Audit Committee, and remediation steering committee reporting. - Facilitate recurring SOX readiness reviews, control owner certifications, walkthrough preparedness, management review control quality assessments, testing status updates, and status reporting for Director review. - Partner with Accounting, Finance, Operations, IT, and business leaders to redesign ineffective controls, strengthen precision of management review controls, improve evidence quality, and embed sustainable control ownership practices. - Coordinate with Internal Audit and external auditors to align on scope, testing expectations, documentation standards, evidence requests, deficiency themes, and remediation validation requirements. - Prepare analysis to support deficiency evaluation activities, including severity assessment, aggregation analysis, compensating control considerations, remediation status review, and readiness for management retesting and external auditor review. - Develop and maintain SOX remediation dashboards, issue heat maps, control health metrics, and governance materials as supporting inputs for Director-led executive leadership, Disclosure Committee, Audit Committee, and remediation steering committee reporting. - Evaluate the control impact of process changes, system implementations, automation initiatives, restructuring activities, new accounting policies, and significant business transactions. - Coach and provide day-to-day guidance to SOX team members while reinforcing a high-accountability culture focused on quality, urgency, transparency, and sustainable control improvement. We need to put each as
- . Requirements (mandatory): "What You’ll Bring" list: - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field; CPA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent certification strongly preferred. - 8+ years of experience in SOX, internal controls, internal audit, external audit, controllership, risk advisory, or public company compliance. - Deep knowledge of SOX 302/404 requirements, COSO framework, PCAOB expectations, deficiency assessment, ICFR governance, control testing, management review controls, and remediation validation in a public company environment. - Demonstrated experience supporting SOX programs or leading remediation workstreams in a public company, Big Four, or complex multi-location environment. - Proven ability to influence senior leaders, drive accountability across functions, and communicate complex control issues clearly and decisively. - Strong understanding of finance processes, financial close, account reconciliations, management review controls, IT dependencies, key reports, and system-generated data. Note: The first bullet includes "CPA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent certification strongly preferred." That's a preference but still part of required? It's listed under What You’ll Bring (required). We'll keep as is. Qualifications (preferred): "Added Fuel If You Have" list: - Direct experience executing, monitoring, tracking, reviewing, or supporting validation of SOX programs and remediation activities in a public company environment, including evidence review, deficiency evaluation, remediation status reporting, and external auditor coordination. - Experience operating in a restatement, delayed filing, significant remediation, accelerated SOX transformation, or heightened auditor scrutiny environment. - Big Four or national public accounting firm experience preferred. - ERP and EPM expertise (e.g., Oracle, NetSuite, FCCS, ARCS). - Experience supporting Audit Committee, Disclosure Committee, or executive-level SOX reporting. Skills: "Key Competencies:" list: - Executive presence, sound judgment, risk-based thinking, accountability, urgency, transparency, collaboration, change leadership, communication, project leadership, and ability to execute effectively under Director leadership while supporting both sustainable remediation outcomes and ongoing SOX program effectiveness. We could split into separate items but it's a sentence with commas. Could treat as a list of competencies separated by commas. Might be better to split into
- each competency. However the instruction: use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. This is a list of competencies, so we should split. Let's split: Executive presence; sound judgment; risk-based thinking; accountability; urgency; transparency; collaboration; change leadership; communication; project leadership; ability to execute effectively under Director leadership while supporting both sustainable remediation outcomes and ongoing SOX program effectiveness. We'll make each as
- .
Benefits: "Get early access to 50% of your earned wages at any time through our myFlexPay program." That's a benefit. We'll put as
- maybe single item.
We should not include Pay or Schedule sections.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown.
Thus:
About the role
... (the paragraph)
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
Skills
- Executive presence
- Sound judgment
- Risk-based thinking
- Accountability
- Urgency
- Transparency
- Collaboration
- Change leadership
- Communication
- Project leadership
- Ability to execute effectively under Director leadership while supporting both sustainable remediation outcomes and ongoing SOX program effectiveness
Benefits
- Get early access to 50% of your earned wages at any time through our myFlexPay program.
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule
- maybe single item.
We should not include Pay or Schedule sections.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown.
Thus: