Senior IT SOX & Controls Analyst

An electric utility client is looking for a Senior IT SOX & Controls Analyst who will act as both a business analyst and SOX analyst supporting IT SOX, business controls, quality management, and control documentation activities.

Position: Senior IT SOX & Controls Analyst
Location: Rosemead, CA 91770 – Hybrid:
Onsite Tu & W
Pay Rate
: $69.70/hr. on W2
Duration
: 18 months or longer
Schedule: 1stshift, M-F, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Looking for a highly skilled internal controls professional who can operate independently, deal with ambiguity, and move work forward without needing step-by-step direction. The person should be resourceful, proactive, and comfortable working across business, IT, SOX Governance, internal audit, external auditors, and senior leadership. This role will support assigned portfolios, lead IT SOX deficiency reviews, manage RACM and control narrative documentation, and evaluate existing SOX, operational, and compliance controls for control design, operating effectiveness, automation, simplification, and standardization opportunities.

Candidate must bring strong critical thinking, a learning mindset, and confidence using AI and digital tools to modernize analysis, documentation, reporting, and control execution while maintaining audit defensibility.

• Contingent worker will act as both a business analyst and SOX analyst supporting IT SOX, business controls, quality management, and control documentation activities.
• The role will partner with business, IT, internal audit, SOX Governance, external auditors, and leadership to develop, assess, document, test, and remediate internal controls across assigned portfolios, including control design and operating effectiveness. This includes ITGCs, automated/configurable controls, access controls, change management, SDLC controls, reports/IPE, interface controls, deficiency management, and control evidence. The role will also evaluate existing SOX, operational and compliance controls to identify opportunities for automation, simplification, standardization, and improved control efficiency while maintaining audit defensibility.
• Serve as overall lead / project manager / assessor for assigned portfolios; lead control deficiency review for IT SOX controls; lead document management for risk, audit and control matrices (RACMs), and control narratives; support scoping assessments, IT project SDLC control assessment and design, robotic process automation design reviews, scoping memos, remediation plans, governance reporting, and executive-ready status updates.
• Perform business analysis activities, including stakeholder interviews, requirements gathering, current-state and future-state process mapping, gap analysis, action tracking, and translating control needs into process or documentation requirements.
• Evaluate current SOX, operational and compliance controls and related processes for control design, operating effectiveness, automation, simplification, standardization, and documentation improvement opportunities without weakening control effectiveness or audit readiness.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in business, accounting, finance, information systems, technology, engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Minimum Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  7+ years.
• 7+ years of experience implementing internal control policies, processes, controls, and system improvements; strong SOX, regulatory, operational controls, risk management, audit coordination, and business analysis experience; ability to lead cross-functional teams, assess complex problems, develop control documentation, manage RACM and narratives, support control testing, evaluate control design and operating effectiveness, synthesize data/process flows,…