Director, IT Governance, Risk & Compliance

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The Director, IT Governance, Risk & Compliance is responsible for the performance of compliance standings on behalf of IT, inclusive IT SOX, PCI-DSS, and General Controls, in appropriate conjunction with business peers. This role provides strategic leadership for IDT's IT compliance and SOX control environment. This role is accountable for establishing a sustainable, risk-based compliance program that supports reliable financial reporting, effective technology governance, and informed enterprise risk decisions.

The Director leads the IT compliance team and builds the organizational capability, executive visibility, and strategic partnerships needed to strengthen controls across a complex technology environment. As a trusted business partner, the Director works with IT leaders across multiple affiliated companies to advance shared priorities and consistent compliance practices.

This position reports to the VP, Digital Transformation and Information Technology and is part of the IT function and will be fully remote.

• Set the strategy and governance model for IT compliance, establishing policies, standards, procedures, accountability, and executive visibility across the control environment.
• Direct the annual IT SOX program and audit, ensuring risk-based scope, effective controls, successful audit execution, and timely resolution of findings.
• Provide oversight of business process controls, IT General Controls, automated application controls, and other technology-dependent controls, ensuring their design and performance remain aligned with financial reporting risks and changes in the technology environment.
• Own the integrity of the IT risk and control framework, including governance of Risk and Control Matrices and the standards used to maintain clear, accurate, and sustainable compliance documentation.
• Lead resolution of significant control gaps and emerging risks, setting priorities, holding stakeholders accountable for sustainable remediation, and providing the CIO with accurate assessments of compliance performance and enterprise risk actions.
• Own strategic business partnerships with IT leaders across multiple affiliated companies, building trusted relationships and leading shared compliance priorities, projects, and best practices across participating IT organizations.
• Lead and develop the IT compliance team, translating strategy into priorities, building capability, and improving the effectiveness and scalability of the…