Head of SOX - Strategic Projects and Growth

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Responsibilities

Reporting to the Finance Director for Risk and Control, this role will partner with stakeholders across our fast moving business on change projects and initiatives to ensure SOX is effectively and efficiently embedded. Initially this will see you establish a SOX testing team, based in India, to in-source SOX management testing. You will support the creation of the team’s approach, structure and ways of working, facilitating a seamless integration with the existing SOX team and first line of defence stakeholders. Once set up, the team will then move into our BAU structure. Following this you will support a finance systems transformation, to build in the SOX consideration into design and the system roll out.

You will sit in a broader finance risk and control function dedicated to shaping SOX delivery across the three lines of defence that currently consists of a team of Control Partners and SOX methodology specialists.

• Form and lead a dedicated SOX testing and support team based in India to establish robust long-term operational frameworks.
• Partner with the core SOX team to continuously improve and accelerate operational ways of working.
• Act as the primary controls lead for a major finance systems transformation project.
• Translate complex accounting and Sarbanes-Oxley concepts into simple, actionable language for diverse stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and finance teams to embed risk management into day-to-day operations.
• Design and build teams, processes, policies, and ways of working to support SOX compliance.