Sox Compliance Manager

Company Overview

Farmers Business Network, Inc. (FBN®) is a pioneering digital marketplace and farmer-to-farmer network dedicated to empowering family farmers globally while promoting sustainable agriculture. With over 117,000 members, FBN's Farmers First® promise unites growers and ranchers in their quest to maximize profitability and increase food production. FBN leverages data, AI and direct-to-farm delivery to simplify the agricultural supply chain, boosting convenience and transparency, reducing farm input costs, enhancing access to financing and services, and providing personalized farm insights.

Its Gradable® joint-venture helps thousands of farmers adopt and earn rewards for regenerative practices while simplifying the access of regenerative products for the world’s leading food companies and grain buyers.

FBN is committed to maintaining strong internal controls and financial reporting integrity as the business continues to grow. This role owns our SOX and internal controls program. You will build and maintain the documentation, run the testing, close the gaps, and make sure our controls are aligned with PCAOB standards.

It's a good fit for someone with a public accounting audit background who's ready to move in-house and own a controls program. Early on, the job is as much about building the program as running it, so you should be comfortable creating structure where there isn't much of it yet.

• Build and maintain our SOX 404 / ICFR program on the COSO 2013 framework, including the process narratives, flowcharts, and risk-and-control matrices that show how each key financial process works and where the controls sit as well as Entity-Level Controls (ELCs), management's fraud risk assessment framework, and Code of Conduct compliance monitoring.
• Run the annual scoping and materiality analysis to set which accounts, assertions, and controls are in scope, across business processes (revenue, procure-to-pay, inventory, payroll, close, and treasury) and IT general controls.
• Test key controls for design and operating effectiveness, directly or with co-sourced help, then document the results, rate the severity of any gaps (deficiency, significant deficiency, or material weakness), and work with process owners to fix them on time.
• Design and document controls around our more complex, judgment-heavy areas, including the convertible note and term loan and their fair value and 409A valuation, the Gradable joint venture, capitalized software, and revenue, and keep controls in step with the business as we add systems, close acquisitions, or adopt new accounting standards.
• Partner with IT and security on IT general controls (access, change management, and operations) and on the key reports and spreadsheets that feed the financials.
• Evaluate SSAE 18 / SOC 1 Type II reports for critical third-party service providers, identifying Complementary User Entity Controls (CUECs) and assessing vendor risk
• Serve as the main point of contact for our external auditors: own the prepared-by-client (PBC) request lists, pull supporting documentation together from across Finance, keep it moving so the audit stays on schedule, and keep our work in line with PCAOB standards (AS 2201).
• Maintain compliance with PCAOB standards (AS 2201), including appropriate materiality thresholds and sample sizes, and coordinate with external auditors to keep quarterly financial information audit-ready.
• Train control and process owners, help stand up SOX tooling as we scale, and report program status, testing results, and remediation to Finance leadership, the CFO, and the Audit Committee.

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• Active CPA.
• At least 7 years of…