Senior Director

Senior Director / Associate Vice President - SOX Compliance

Role Overview:

The role will enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability of Exela s processes, systems, and underlying internal control environment, whether through the SOX compliance efforts or by conducting special projects. The role will closely partner with Legal, Finance, IT, Technology Security business leaders, as well as internal external auditors to unify SOX Compliance across the organization.

This individual must possess the skills to understand business processes, assess the control environment, implement process improvements, and champion best practices. He or she will be responsible for coordinating and reviewing the process documentation and testing with internal and external teams along with communicating findings and recommendations to executive management. This is an opportunity to have a visible impact on the organization and will require strong project management skills, clear communication, and the ability to bring various contributors together to achieve a combined goal.

Essential Job Functions and Accountabilities:

Manage the Companys SOX compliance program and act as a central point of contact and subject matter expert to ensure appropriate internal controls (manual and system) over financial reporting are properly designed and implemented.

Responsible for on-going project management of the SOX program, including the use of co-sourced providers to optimize engagement economics and quality.

Integrate newly acquired businesses under the Corporate SOX program, provide SOX training and roll-out compliance requirements to new subsidiaries (both domestically and internationally).

Coordinate efforts between Internal Audit, Eternal Audit, and business process owners, including alignment on SOX planning, walkthroughs/testing, audit requests, and deficiency evaluations.

Leverage technology to drive improvements in both the efficiency and effectiveness of the Company s SOX program.

Drive SOX scoping and risk assessment by collaborating with cross-functional teams, including accounting, engineering, and others, within the Company to stay up to date on significant changes that may have an impact on the design and/or operating effectiveness of controls.

Partners with IT and business process owners on internal control considerations for system implementations impacting financial reporting.

Identify and evaluate control deficiencies.

Facilitate the remediation of identified control deficiencies, including working with business process owners on both immediate and long-term solutions.

Deliver timely and concise communication including developing and producing management reporting illustrating SOX status, trends, and remediation of deficiencies.

Act as the "go-to" person for internal controls within the organization and provide reliable and insightful resource for implementing controls within a business process in an efficient and effective manner

Prepare periodic SOX compliance presentations for Executive Management and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.

Educate business process owners by leading training sessions to demonstrate compliance requirements and share hot topics in SOX compliance

Qualifications:

Must Have Knowledge and Skills

A minimum of 15+ years SOX audit experience within the technology industry; some Public Accounting firm experience with regards to SOX, Audit or internal audit functions.

Excellent Project Management skills and experience in the context of a SOX or Audit leadership role; PMP or PMO certification is nice to have.

• CPA, CIA, CISA or equivalent certification preferred

A deep understanding of GAAP, COSO, Sarbanes Oxley Act, and PCAOB Rules and experienced in the use of auditing and assessment frameworks and the application of professional standards and preferably experience implementing and building a SOX program from scratch

Excellent written, oral and presentation skills

Experience managing a team that is a mix of professional staff and third-party consultants

Strong leadership and team building and development skills with an ability to set objectives and drive results

Proven ability to work with and communicate effectively across all levels across the organization; including educating cross-functional teams and other leaders regarding SOX.

Strong influencing skills and business judgement