Sox Senior Manager

We are a lean, nimble, and highly adaptive team that works seamlessly and transparently with our Brands in order for them to take the spotlight. We focus our efforts and talents to drive best practices, capture new opportunities, and accelerate performance across our portfolio of brands. Joining the a.k.a. Brands team means rolling up your sleeves, digging into challenges, creating and implementing new strategies, and not being limited to the confines of a job title or job description. We all play on the same team and value the insights and contributions that every member of our team makes daily.

Working as part of our Global Controllership team, our SOX Senior Manager will help to execute and mature the overall SOX program for aka Brands.  They will work with leadership across the company both at the corporate level as well as individual brand levels to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.   

• This role is hybrid. The incumbent for this role must reside in California, Oregon or Utah*

Essential Job Functions:

• Manage our global SOX Program with the assistance of our 3rd party consultants, including the completion of SOX risk assessments and scoping; conducting walkthroughs and designing and executing control testing.
• Partner with the business and IT to ensure SOX documentation, including flowcharts, narratives, and controls are up to date and accurate. Assist with creating SOX documentation for new and developing processes.
• Actively managing our SOX Compliance Management tool (Floqast) to ensure sign-offs; process documentation; risks; control descriptions; testing; deficiencies/control issues; etc. are updated timely and reflect the current status of the SOX Program
• Collaborating with business and IT to ensure key controls are being performed satisfactorily and provide training as necessary
• Managing control deficiencies and working with the business/IT to implement remediation plans
• Communicate audit results and recommendations for improvement to Management
• Consult and provide insight related to risk mitigation, process improvements and best practices.

Education & Experience:

• Degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 8+ years of related audit & accounting experience.
• Professional certification such as CPA or CISA is preferred.  Public accounting firm experience is preferred.
• Experience working with external auditors.
• Experience testing and reviewing SOX testing workpapers for both IT and Business Process controls.
• Strong background in public company SOX compliance requirements, accounting, and finance processes, including a solid understanding of the concepts of control design and operational efficiency.
• Familiarity with financial systems as they relate to reviewing and improving internal controls.