Lead, SOX Readiness & Controls; Hybrid - Draper, UT

Progressive Leasing is a leading provider of in-store and e-commerce lease-to-own solutions. With more than 20 years in Fin Tech, we’ve grown from start-up to industry leader by innovating, simplifying, and valuing people. We are a subsidiary of PROG Holdings (NYSE: PRG), a Fin Tech holding company with three business segments:
Progressive Leasing, Purchasing Power (a leading employee purchase program for consumer products and services using payroll deduction), and Four, a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platform.

We are hiring a Lead, SOX Readiness & Controls to build and lead the implementation of a scalable, sustainable SOX compliance program for a newly acquired business. This is a senior individual contributor role with end-to-end ownership of SOX readiness activities, internal control design, documentation, remediation, and audit preparedness. The position provides leadership through influence, expertise, and program ownership rather than direct people management.

In addition to establishing a strong SOX foundation, this role will help drive broader finance transformation initiatives by improving control effectiveness, enabling automation, and leveraging data and AI-driven insights to strengthen and modernize the control environment.

Reporting to the Director of Financial Controls, the SOX Readiness & Controls Lead will partner closely with business leaders, Finance, Technology, a SOX readiness advisory firm, and external auditors to ensure controls are well-designed, operationally effective, audit-ready, and aligned with SOX 404 requirements.

This is a hybrid role and will require time onsite as business needs dictate.

Employee Value Proposition (EVP): PROG is dedicated to providing people with opportunity; opportunity for inclusive collaboration, opportunity for innovation, and opportunity for development.

A cross-functional financial controls team focused on strengthening financial reporting and technology control environments while driving continuous improvement and finance transformation. We partner with Finance, IT, Security, Operations, and business leaders to build efficient, scalable, and increasingly automated controls that support the business while meeting audit standards.

A hands-on SOX/internal controls professional who is comfortable in business process discussions and IT control environments.

You bring a continuous improvement mindset, with an interest in leveraging automation, data analytics, or emerging AI capabilities to improve control execution and monitoring.

You can translate requirements into actionable steps, keep work streams organized, and communicate clearly with both management and auditors while constructively challenging assumptions.

• Act as the primary liaison between control owners, management, external SOX readiness advisory firm, internal auditors and external auditors—helping align on expectations, and keep requests moving through planning, scoping, walkthroughs and testing.
• Review, challenge, and refine advisory firm deliverables (e.g., flowcharts, risk & control matrices) to ensure they are accurate, right‑sized, aligned to how the business actually operates, and fulfills audit requirements.
• Own and maintain SOX documentation, including process flowcharts, risk & control matrices, and control attributes.
• Lead and/or support walkthroughs for business process controls (e.g., Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, etc).
• Support walkthroughs for IT General Controls (ITGCs), e.g., Access to Programs, Change Management, and IT Operations.
• Identify control gaps and deficiencies, perform root cause analysis, and partner with stakeholders to develop remediation plans—then track items through closure.
• Provide practical guidance and training to control owners on executing controls, retaining evidence, and sustaining compliance. Prepare clear status reporting for leadership (progress, risks, audit readiness, open items, timeline impacts).
• Identify opportunities to streamline or automate control activities, reduce manual effort, and improve consistency across processes.
• Partner with Finance and Technology teams to support control design within…