Lead SOX Risk Advisor

Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With products like Turbo Tax, Quick Books, Mailchimp, and Credit Karma, we serve over 100 million customers globally. Our mission is to power prosperity around the world — and that includes building a world-class control environment that scales with our innovation and ambition.

Come join Intuit as a Lead SOX Risk Advisor within the SOX Risk and Compliance Organization (SRCO). SRCO is a management-led function purpose-built to deliver a modern, sustainable, and risk-focused SOX program that scales with the business. SRCO enables Intuit's continued growth by establishing a strong foundation of financial compliance, risk management, and operational excellence. Within SRCO, the SOX Risk Advisory team acts as strategic advisors to business process owners, control owners, and our Technology Compliance and Risk Management Organization (TCRM) to ensure financial reporting integrity and readiness for business change.

In this high-impact role, reporting to the Senior Manager, SOX Risk Advisory, you’ll drive strategic SOX readiness projects and provide risk advisory expertise across many process areas to ensure compliance with SOX while enabling process excellence. You’ll play a key role in strengthening the control environment and maintaining Intuit’s financial integrity.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as an end-to-end process and control expert advising control and process owners on SOX requirements, risk assessment, control design, and optimization strategies.
• Drive the readiness intake and assessment process for new initiatives or business transformations to identify the relevant financial statement risks, financial statement line items, and SOX implications with clear and thorough rationale.
• Develop, drive, and execute detailed project plans to ensure SOX readiness projects are delivered on time and with high quality, resulting in well-designed and effective controls.
• Quickly develop a deep understanding of processes and systems, to identify key financial statement risks and potential controls. Influence and drive the implementation or modification of controls to mitigate risks in the most audit and business friendly manner. Considering all aspects of scoping, level of effort, testing complexity and scalability.
• Draft risk and control matrices (RCMs), including key systems, tools, and service providers, based upon review of management’s artifacts (i.e. process documentation, dataflow diagrams, etc.) and walkthroughs across stakeholder groups.
• Design and execute testing to ensure control evidence and scope are sufficient and aligned with risk.
• Manage the deficiency evaluation process including root cause analysis, management action plan development, and remediation monitoring and validation.
• Partner with process owners and control owners to drive awareness and understanding of SOX requirements and protocols, control design requirements, and enterprise control strategy.
• Challenge and optimize control design decisions while balancing business objectives and risk mitigation.
• Lead with an extreme sense of ownership and forward-looking mindset to drive operational excellence and continuous improvement within our control environment.
• Proactively lead and influence cross-functionally and at all levels of management. Cultivate strong relationships with leaders in Accounting, Finance, TCRM, and across the Business in order to facilitate timely, high-quality decision-making in connection with the SOX control environment and related financial risk.
• Apply AI-assisted workflows and AI tooling to perform SOX readiness assessments accelerating throughput across a high-volume portfolio of SOX readiness projects while maintaining audit-quality rigor.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is…