Lead, SOX Controls Advisory

Location: Vancouver, BC (hybrid: finance office) 3 days a week on site

Salary: $119,000 - $147,000 a year plus bonus / relocation can be considered within Canada

Looking for:

• SOX & ICFR Expertise
• Professional Accounting Credentials
• Technical Control Design & Documentation Skills
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
• CPA, CA designation (or equivalent)

This outstanding candidate will assist management in crafting, implementing, and maintaining financial reporting controls in accordance with SOX requirements. The Lead will have the opportunity to work with various departments across the company’s global operations and should have excellent listening and communications skills to champion relationships, encourage cross-functional communication, and promote teamwork. The role will require supporting management in supervising and reporting of control deficiencies and remediation plans, and to ensure effective sharing of relevant information with control owners, internal & external auditors, and the Corporate Controller.

What you will be doing:

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures
• Provide advice on financial reporting and internal control matters for stakeholders
• Participate in process walkthrough meetings to support updates to process flow diagrams, narratives, and Risk Control Matrices (RCMs), as required
• Liaise with other risk management functions, Assurance & Advisory (A&A) and external auditors to ensure SOX related activities are efficiently completed and control deficiencies are validated
• Collaborate closely with control owners to ensure control deficiencies are documented and appropriately remediated on a timely basis
• Supervise emerging ICFR and SOX issues and implications
• Act as a systems administrator for the Global Risk & Compliance (GRC) system and assist users in maintaining control documentation

What you have:

• A CPA, CA designation (or equivalent), with experience working for a Big 4 accounting firm
• 6+ years of post-qualification experience in a multi-national company or with an emphasis on internal controls and SOX
• Strong understanding of SOX legislation, systems, and internal controls over financial reporting, including Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) requirements
• Understanding of risk management frameworks such as the COSO framework and Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT)
• Experience crafting process flow diagrams, writing process narratives and designing key SOX controls