Financial Compliance Advisor

What Makes a Honda, Is Who Makes a Honda

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential.

To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

This role is a senior individual contributor responsible for leading financial compliance, internal controls (SOX), audit coordination, and tax activities. The position acts as a key advisor to Accounting & Finance leadership and business partners to ensure financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and effective control environments, while identifying opportunities to strengthen process and reduce risk.

• Lead HTA SOX PLC (Process Level Controls) compliance, ensuring timely completion of testing in alignment with corporate requirements.
• Partner with Accounting, Operations (LOBs), and external SOX auditors to evaluate control effectiveness and address identified deficiencies.
• Drive development, tracking, and closure of remediation plans across departments.
• Maintain Accounting SOX documentation and support continuous improvement of control design and execution
• Serve as a key member of the SOX governance structure, providing regular updates to leadership and executive stakeholders.

• Serve as primary liaison with external and internal auditors (e.g. KPMG, EY, Internal Audit) leading coordination of annual audits.
• Coordinate the preparation, review, and audit support of financial statement disclosures and footnotes, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and alignment with US GAAP and IFRS requirements.
• Analyze and explain financial statement variances, ensuring alignment with underlying business activity
• Monitor and implement changes related to US GAAP and IFRS, Providing guidance on accounting treatment and policy updates.
• Support ongoing strengthening of financial reporting processes and controls.

• Lead coordination of corporate income tax activities in partnership with external providers (e.g. EY).
• Manage tax audit activities, including data gathering, analysis, and response development.
• Support preparation of tax provisions and required filings, including estimated payments across jurisdictions.
• Oversee the end-to-end sales and use tax process, including data aggregation, reconciliation, compliance reporting, and timely remittance of tax liabilities.
• Compile and submit mandatory governmental and statistical surveys to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance.
• Prepare required documentation (e.g., CAP files) to support timely and accurate filings.
• Advise internal stakeholders’ tax-related considerations and opportunities for efficient business structuring.

• Perform supervisory review of financial transactions, journal entries, and monthly closing documentation in accordance with SOX and accounting standards.
• Validate accuracy and completeness of financial reporting, including intercompany activity and profit analysis.
• Partner with Accounting and business teams to review financial results, identify key drivers, and validate variance explanations.
• Support governance over management reporting (e.g. BRM, RP2) to ensure consistency and integrity.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting ,Finance,Economics or related field or equivalent relevant…