Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis SOX Program Manager

About The Role

Summary:

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) SOX Program Manager is a corporate resource responsible primarily for overseeing the management of Glacier Bancorp’s Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) compliance program. In addition to ownership of the SOX materiality assessments and scoping analysis, this role will work directly with corporate departments, bank divisions and senior leadership to facilitate, design, and update key SOX controls and manage the control and process certifications activities.

This role requires strong partnerships with internal stakeholders and supports other FP&A functional responsibilities including associated risk management and governance activities. This includes those related to our Third‑Party Risk Management (TPRM) framework for vendor contracts management, and coordination with internal auditors and external regulatory examiners. Support of FP&A model validations and preparation and maintenance of key departmental documentation are also critical components of this role.

This is a corporate position which may be located at an available bank division location across our nine‑state footprint in AZ, CO, , MT, NV, TX, UT, WA, or WY. The entry rate for this position is $ +/year (calculated for Kalispell, MT). All compensation offers are analyzed individually and take into consideration multiple factors including but not limited to geographic location, years of experience, and educational background.

WA Applicants ONLY pay range: $ to $ per year.

• Carry out a regular schedule of materiality and scoping analyses to determine potential gaps in coverage related to SOX controls and identify significant accounts to be considered in‑scope for SOX.
• Work with various corporate department and division leaders to design and create additional controls as necessary and develop clear process narratives, ensuring they are effective in mitigating identified risks while adhering to a formal change control process.
• Design, distribute and gather control and process certifications from control and process owners across the organization. Utilize feedback to determine needed adjustments to processes, control information or control designs.
• In coordination with IT management and other business owners, perform periodic technology assessments on the company’s inventory of IT systems and applications from a SOX perspective.
• Prepare and distribute formal SOX program documentation including entity‑level control assessments, completeness and accuracy memos, and management knowledge assessments, to key internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist and educate control owners in understanding their SOX responsibilities and compliance efforts.
• Work with Internal Audit on their testing of SOX controls and assist control owners with associated deficiency analysis as needed for each identified control failure (if any).
• Design and implement an appropriate Completeness & Accuracy program for key reports utilized by or relied upon by business lines and divisions.
• Facilitate activities by external auditors related to deposit and loan account confirmations and report periodically through formal presentations on all SOX‑related program elements to the GBCI Executive team and the divisions’ Boards of Directors.

• Expand and enhance internal processes related to third‑party contract reviews and negotiation. Partner with TPRM to formalize mechanisms for external support and establish processes for triggering and monitoring outside engagements.
• Coordinate with ERM and TPRM to enhance oversight of timing related to renewals and notification periods to provide additional support for contract owners where needed.
• Foster, oversee, and manage department relationships or engagements with external third parties.
• Lead and support FP&A department engagements with internal or external auditors, enterprise risk management or external regulatory examiners.
• Facilitate internal departmental risk assessments and model validations with Model Risk Management, including assessments of non‑model tools, coordinating internal responses to findings and related enhancements…