Senior Vice President, SOX Control & Compliance Manager

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President to join our Sox and Control team. This role is located in Pittsburgh.

- Lead the end-to-end SOX and ICFR program for assigned business areas, key processes, or legal entities, ensuring execution is aligned to annual regulatory and management timelines.

- Direct risk assessments to identify significant accounts, key financial reporting risks, relevant control points, and changes that may impact the SOX and ICFR scope.

- Oversee and challenge the quality of process narratives, risk and control matrices, flowcharts, control inventories, and supporting documentation standards across the portfolio.

- Review and challenge the design and operating effectiveness assessment of manual, automated, and IT-dependent controls.

- Coordinate with control owners, Finance, Operations, Technology, Compliance, Internal Audit, and External Audit to ensure walkthroughs, testing, evidence submission, and remediation are completed on time.

- Oversee and review audit team's test workpapers across Test of Design ("TOD") and Test of Operating Effectiveness ("TO"E), ensuring testing is executed consistently, documentation is complete and audit-ready, and conclusions are supported by sufficient and appropriate evidence.

- Assess control deficiencies, support severity evaluation, and drive robust remediation planning in line with internal methodology and regulatory expectations.

- Provide senior management reporting on testing outcomes, program health, deficiencies, remediation status, and highlight areas requiring escalation.

- Drive simplification, control rationalisation, standardisation, and automation initiatives to improve the efficiency and sustainability of the control framework.

- Coach and develop junior team members and act as a senior subject matter expert for SOX, ICFR, and financial reporting controls across the broader organization.

- Lead continuous monitoring across key SOX program areas, including analysing the Operational risk events ("ORE"), Internal Audit issues, representation letter matters, external audit issues and other control-related themes, to identify emerging risks, perform impact assessment and ensure timely escalation and resolution.

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk Management, Business, or a related discipline.

- Professional qualification such as CA, CPA, ACCA, ACA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent.

- Experience with banking and financial services, financial close/reporting processes, and enterprise control frameworks such as COSO and COBIT.

- Experience leading cross-functional control transformation, rationalization, or automation/ AI initiatives.

- Demonstrates ownership, accountability, and balanced judgment in complex control and stakeholder matters.

- Leads with a strong risk and controls mindset and sets clear expectations for quality and timeliness.

- Builds trusted relationships across senior stakeholder groups and collaborates effectively across functions and regions.

- Develops team capability through coaching, constructive feedback, and knowledge sharing.

- Promotes a proactive and continuous-improvement culture within the ICFR and SOX programme.

- SOX and ICFR milestones completed on time and to expected quality standards.

- Reduction in repeat findings, documentation gaps, and overdue remediation items.

- Positive audit and stakeholder feedback on programme management, documentation quality, and control challenge.

- Improved control maturity, standardisation, and sustainability across assigned processes.

- Effective escalation and resolution of key control issues impacting financial reporting.