Interim Senior SOX Analyst

Contract type: Interim, 6 months (outside IR35)
Location: London, 1 day per week on site

The Role

A hands on interim Senior SOX Analyst is required to support a fast paced environment going through significant change. Processes and controls are still maturing, and this role is heavily weighted towards doing the work. The successful candidate will be directly involved in control testing, remediation and documentation across the business.

The organisation needs someone comfortable rolling up their sleeves and working through a high volume of testing at pace.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform SOX control testing across financial, IT and treasury processes
• Assess design and operating effectiveness of key controls, identifying gaps and control deficiencies
• Work directly with process owners to remediate control weaknesses and improve documentation
• Review and strengthen technical accounting controls, ensuring alignment with SOX requirements
• Assess IT general controls (ITGCs) and application controls, working closely with IT teams
• Review treasury processes and controls, including cash management, banking and related financial risk areas
• Support the wider finance function in building out control frameworks in areas where processes are still immature
• Liaise with external auditors on SOX testing approach, evidence and findings
• Produce clear, well evidenced testing documentation and reporting for stakeholders

Candidate Requirements

• Proven hands on SOX experience, ideally gained in a Big 4 or industry SOX/internal controls function
• Strong technical accounting knowledge
• Experience testing IT general controls and working with IT teams on control remediation
• Experience of treasury processes and controls within a SOX framework
• Comfortable working independently in a fast moving, changing environment with limited existing structure
• Confident communicator, able to work with process owners and stakeholders at varying levels of control maturity
• Immediately available or on short notice
• Able to work outside IR35 on a 6 month interim contract

Additional Information

• Applicants must have the right to work in the UK
• Role based in London, with 1 day per week required on site
• Remainder of the working week can be carried out remotely
• This is a doing role suited to someone who wants to be embedded in testing and remediation work day to day