Senior Finance Manager SOX Testing

About the Team

Finance Risk & Control partners with Finance and the wider business to strengthen the control environment support SOX compliance and improve how risks and controls are designed operated and evidenced. We are a distributed team across the UK and Estonia and we are establishing a dedicated SOX testing hub in Hyderabad to drive consistency high audit quality and scalability across our global testing program.

Position Overview

As a Senior Finance Manager - SOX Testing you will play a hands-on execution and leadership role in executing our end-to-end business process SOX testing program. Reporting to the Head of SOX Testing you will build and lead a team of testing specialists oversee day-to-day testing delivery across design and operating effectiveness perform rigorous Quality Assurance (QA) reviews and partner with business process owners across the globe to ensure practical audit-ready compliance.

Your Mission

• End-to-End Fieldwork Execution: Lead day-to-day execution of Design Effectiveness Testing (DET) and Operating Effectiveness Testing (OET) for business process controls across all key finance and operational cycles (e.g. P2P R2R Treasury).
• Team Leadership & Capacity Building: Directly manage mentor and coach a squad of SOX testing analysts. Review workpapers to maintain an exceptionally high bar for evidence and documentation.
• Co-Sourcing Supervision: Supervise external/co-sourced vendor testing teams. Ensure they adhere to Wise methodology meet quality standards and stay on schedule without creating rework.
• Quality Assurance & Audit Readiness: Perform detailed QA reviews on completed control walkthroughs and sample testing to ensure conclusions are well-supported clearly articulated and fully compliant with PCAOB/COSO standards.
• Issue Management & Root-Cause Analysis: Lead discussions on identified control failures with control owners. Agree on deficiency severity identify root causes and track remediation re-testing to completion.
• AI & Automation Integration: Adopt and embed data analytics automated evidence extraction and AI-enabled testing tools into daily testing procedures to increase speed and coverage.

The role will give you the opportunity to

• Own your own path to success: Youll have a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Develop an in-depth knowledge of Wises business: Get to know many teams across finance and the business as you partner with them to help them implement a risk and controls culture
• Grow with the role: You will have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills and grow your own team as the business and finance function grows in complexity. 

Qualifications :

A bit about you

• Theory: Professional Certification: Active CA CPA CIA or equivalent qualification or an MBA.
• Experience: 1012 years of hands-on experience in SOX 404 / ICFR business process controls testing within a Big 4 global corporate or fast-paced tech environment (with 3 years in a team leadership role).
• Technical Depth: Expert knowledge of business process controls testing methodology statistical sampling guidance PCAOB audit expectations and COSO framework.
• Quality Focus: Proven track record of reviewing workpapers and producing governance-ready audit documentation that withstands external audit scrutiny.
• Practice: You have demonstrable experience leading and managing internal controls / audit teams on multiple assignments preferably within Financial services. 
• Commercial acumen: You understand the value of taking a balanced approach to risk and controls to support the growth of the business
• Collaborative: Thrives in a multi-time-zone international team environment (UK Estonia India) with a proven ability to influence outcomes through others.

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time