Client: Restaurant / Food Services
Position: SOX IT Auditor
Pay: $85K
Location: On site 5 days a week - Tampa / Sarasota
Education: Bachelor’s Degree with a concentration in Information Technology fields
Experience:
- 3-4 years of relevant experience supporting SOX compliance within an IT department and with other leadership teams in evaluating, testing, and documenting IT general controls (ITGC), including application controls (ITAC), over financial reporting.
- Proven skill in conducting audits or reviews of technical systems across internal applications and in a Microsoft environment
- Proven skill in identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; well-developed interpersonal skills, including the ability to challenge; ability to rapidly assimilate knowledge of processes and systems and develop relationships with stakeholders
- Strong organizational and time management skills; ability to independently complete and manage multiple assignments with varying deadlines
- Ability to prepare and articulate objective, defensible, fact-based information
Responsibilities:
- Assist IT system owners in preparing and maintaining SOX IT process narratives and Risk and Control Matrices (RCMs).
- Participate in system scoping reviews to understand how data flows through the systems that are material to internal controls over financial reporting.
- Enforce established timelines in performing SOX compliance tasks, ensuring activities are conducted in accordance with policies and procedures.
- Assist in designing and implementing IT General Controls for new systems.
- Collaborate with process and control owners to remediate identified deficiencies, advising on internal control enhancements or process changes as appropriate, and ensuring corrective actions are properly implemented.
- Effectively communicate IT SOX issues and requirements across varied levels of leadership and process owners to drive solutions.
- Conduct import/export reviews for acquiring systems and software.
- Evaluate changes in processes, people, and technology that may impact SOX controls for IT systems and processes.
- Serve as critical liaison with internal and external auditors, managing the ITGC testing evidence validation, and issue remediation with minimal oversight.
- Validate and assess audit evidence to ensure completeness, accuracy, and appropriate traceability to source systems.
- Support internal and external auditors in the gathering of pertinent documentation to support ITGC and ITAC audit requests.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including accounting, tax, treasury, payroll, and consultants, to provide IT SOX support.
- Provide training and guidance to IT staff on SOX compliance best practices.
