FinOps Sox Audit & Data

Job Description

The Fin Ops – SOX Audit & Data Governance Lead is accountable for designing, governing, and certifying financial data completeness and reconciliation controls across the end-to-end data pipeline, supporting internal cloud usage metering.

This role owns the architectural control model that ensures data integrity from agent-level ingestion through the Bronze data layer and into SAP General Ledger (GL) posting. Acting as the authoritative bridge between engineering, finance, and audit, the role translates complex distributed system behavior into SOX-compliant, deterministic controls that protect financial reporting.

The lead ensures that incomplete, inconsistent, or partially ingested data is detected, resolved, and prevented from impacting SAP GL posting or financial statements.

• Design and govern the three-party reconciliation model spanning:
  • Agent local store
  • Bronze data layer
  • Write-ahead manifest / control ledger
• Define:
  • Reconciliation in variants
  • Tolerance thresholds
  • Authoritative system-of-record for each data state
• Establish and maintain the disagreement resolution matrix, explicitly defining:
  • Detection mechanisms for mismatches and partial ingestion
  • Ownership of remediation (systemic vs. manual)
  • Escalation paths and required audit evidence

• Co-own the x_Dataset
  
  Completeness certification logic, including:
  • Formal definitions of complete, partial, and invalid datasets
  • Deterministic certification rules consumable by downstream finance systems
  • Control evidence artifacts suitable for SOX and external audit review
• Ensure certification logic is:
  • Stable and versioned
  • Backward-compatible
  • Fully traceable for audit and historical reconstruction

• Co-own the SAP General Ledger posting gate enforcing dataset completeness controls
• Design and govern logic that:
  • Blocks journal posting for partially complete or uncertified datasets
  • Prevents implicit acceptance or silent failure
• Partner with Finance and SAP teams to ensure:
  • Clear operational visibility into blocked postings
  • Controlled override mechanisms with explicit audit trails
  • Clear understanding of downstream financial impact

• Act as the primary SOX control owner for data completeness, reconciliation, and financial ingestion
• Produce and maintain:
  • Control narratives and architecture documentation
  • Operating effectiveness evidence
  • End-to-end traceability from raw ingestion through SAP GL impact
• Lead internal and external audit walkthroughs, explaining system behavior using control-centric, audit-ready language

• Partner with:
  • Platform and data engineering teams to implement controls by design
  • Finance and controllership on financial impact and risk posture
  • Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit teams on control validation
• Drive convergence between architectural intent and audit expectations, minimizing reliance on compensating controls

• 7+ years of experience in SOX controls, financial data governance, and audit frameworks
• Proven experience acting as a formal SOX control owner for financial data pipelines
• Deep understanding of data pipelines and distributed systems, including ingestion, persistence, and reconciliation patterns
• Hands‑on experience designing reconciliation, data completeness certification, and gating controls for financial systems
• Ability to translate technical system states into deterministic, auditable control logic
• Strong familiarity with:
  • Write‑ahead logs / manifests
  • Bronze / Silver / Gold data layer concepts
  • Dataset certification and control metadata
• Ability to reason about partial failure, late‑arriving data, idempotency, and reprocessing from a control and audit perspective
• Proven ability to work across engineering, finance, controllership, risk, and audit teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for audit, compliance, and regulatory forums
• Fin Ops Certified Practitioner or Fin Ops Certified Professional (preferred)

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