Sr. Manager, IT Control, Assurance & SOX

Sr. Manager, IT Control, Assurance & SOX

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New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America, Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America

DePuy Synthes is recruiting for a(n) Sr. Manager, IT Controls, Assurance & SOX located in New Brunswick, NJ or Palm Beach Gardens, FL or Warsaw, IN or West Chester, PA or Raynham, MA.

This role leads the design, execution, and continuous improvement of DePuy Synthes' IT controls, assurance, and (SOX) program within the Governance & Risk function of Cybersecurity. The Sr. Manager will own the enterprise IT SOX control framework, IT general controls (ITGCs), automated application controls, and IT-related assurance activities across financially relevant systems, cloud platforms, and third-party services. This position partners closely with Finance, Internal Audit, External Auditors, Application Owners, and Infrastructure teams to ensure a strong control environment, timely remediation of deficiencies, and audit-ready operations as the company stands up as an independent, publicly traded entity.

Own the enterprise IT control framework — including ITGCs (access, change, operations), automated application controls, and IT-dependent business controls — aligned to COBIT, COSO, NIST CSF, and internal policies

Lead design and operating effectiveness assessments of IT controls across ERP, cloud, SaaS, and infrastructure platforms, and drive remediation of identified gaps

Partner with application, cloud, and infrastructure teams to embed preventive and detective controls by design in the SDLC, Dev Ops pipelines, and cloud landing zones

Extend the assurance program to third parties and managed service providers, including review of SOC 1/SOC 2 reports, complementary user entity controls (CUECs), and bridge letters

Serve as the primary IT liaison for Internal Audit, External Auditors, and regulatory examiners — coordinating walkthroughs, evidence, testing, and management responses

Advance continuous controls monitoring (CCM), analytics, and automation to expand control coverage and reduce manual testing effort

Own the end-to-end IT SOX program — scoping, risk assessment, control design, management testing, deficiency evaluation, and reporting across in-scope financial systems and supporting IT infrastructure

Define the annual IT SOX plan in partnership with Finance, Internal Audit, and External Auditors, including in-scope applications, ITGCs, key reports, and automated controls

Lead management testing of ITGCs and IT-dependent business controls, ensuring timely completion, quality of evidence, and consistent workpaper standards

Drive deficiency evaluation, root cause analysis, remediation planning, and status reporting to leadership and the Audit Committee

Stand up and operate the first-year SOX program for the standalone DePuy Synthes entity, including RCMs, narratives, and control ownership across the new operating model

Modernize the SOX program through GRC tooling (e.g., Service Now IRM, Audit Board, Archer), risk-based sampling, and automated evidence collection

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