Senior Analyst, SOX Compliance

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Job Description

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced senior analyst to help support the company-wide SOX compliance program. The position will require travel 1 -2 times per year. You will assist in gathering, analyzing, and reporting data; documenting internal controls over financial reporting, and you will report directly to the Director, Corporate Compliance.

This role can be based in New York, NY or Norfolk, VA.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate annual updates to narratives and process documentation with process owners and management

• Perform testing of key controls, including Entity Level controls

• Prepare audit work papers summarizing testing results

• Identify control deficiencies and participate in remediation efforts and retesting

• Perform detail review of testing workpapers prepared by company wide SOX self-assessors

• Help determine SOX testing scope following SEC and PCAOB guidelines

• Maintain an understanding of our internal control framework and processes to identify risks

• Work with IT to develop plans to assess and test multiple ITGC’s

• Support the administration and management of the SOX Compliance software

• Interface with external and internal auditors on an ongoing basis

• Report on data sets and use data analytics tools to review recorded transactions

• Provide support to external auditors for multiple processes on which they place reliance

• Collaborate with and coordinate efforts across multiple departments

• Help with anti-fraud efforts, including surveys and fraud scheme reviews

• Third-party service provider tracking and review of relevant SOC1 reports with process owners

• Provide timely status reports on progress of activities

• Support ad hoc compliance reporting

• Demonstrates support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting/Finance

• Public accounting experience

• Sarbanes-Oxley compliance experience 

• 3 – 5 years of accounting / auditing experience with a background in internal controls

• Advanced excel skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• CPA

• Experience using audit analytics software

The annual base pay range for this role is between $80,000.00 and $125,000.00.

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