IT SOX Manager

Ready to have a direct impact on the financial success of a public company?

Groupon is an experiences marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiences--big and small, new and familiar--that make for a full, fun and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationships--resulting in strong, vibrant communities. With employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. Our culture encourages employees to embrace change, adapt to new circumstances, and find creative solutions to the challenges we face. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career? Let's get into the details:

This position will function at an IT SOX Manager level reporting to the Internal Audit Director. The core responsibility of this role is to assess IT general controls and application controls for design effectiveness and operating effectiveness. In addition to IT SOX control testing, this role will also perform business process control testing.

As an IT SOX Manager you must have audit experience and the ability to interact with management at all levels. This position requires excellent communication skills as well as an understanding of COBIT, generally accepted accounting principles, and IT audit techniques.

We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact. We're curious, fun, a little intense, and kind of obsessed with helping local businesses thrive. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career? Let's get into the details:

Responsibilities:

• Manage the IT general controls (ITGC's) and application controls within the financial reporting risk and control matrix (RCM).
• Scope systems into SOX control testing based on risk assessment.
• Create process narratives to map out financial reporting processes.
• Lead control walkthroughs and assess design effectiveness of controls.
• Develop control test procedures, inclusive of testing attributes.
• Test the operating effectiveness of IT general controls, application controls, entity-level controls, and business process controls.
• Review SOX control testing workpapers to ensure that adequate documentation exists to support conclusions.
• Monitor remediation status of IT SOX control failures to ensure corrective action has been taken.
• Lead SOX control design discussions, gap discussions, and new system implementation discussions with external auditors.
• Train control owners and internal audit team members on IT SOX best practices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Information Systems or relevant equivalent
• 5+ years of proven audit experience
• Certified Professional Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), and/or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) preferred
• Systems savvy; experience with NetSuite is a plus
• Understanding of data warehouse and able to write SQL queries
• Microsoft Office proficiency; high-level of comfort with Excel is required
• Pro-active doer; innately curious, enthusiastic attitude, desire to continually challenge existing processes and improve them.
• Energized by a fluid, fast-paced environment

Groupon's purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world's largest local ecommerce marketplace, click here for the latest Groupon news. Plus, be sure to check out the values that shape our culture, guide our strategy and make our company a great place to work. And just don't take our word for it. Hear from real Groupon team members and learn more about our inclusive employee groups. If all of this sounds like something that's a great fit for you, then click apply and let's see where this takes us.