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Overview

HR Shared Services SOX & Compliance Principal Business Analyst, is responsible for managing, monitoring, and reporting on compliance efforts to achieve and maintain compliance with SOX regulations. In this role, the ideal candidate will work in collaboration with internal partners across HR Shared Services, including payroll, benefits, global mobility, HR data services, as well as partners across internal audit, finance, information technology, and other partners as needed to ensure end-to-end compliance and controls are in place, operating, and executed as expected.

This role will assist in the development of annual financial and third-party risk assessment processes while evaluating financial risks and controls. Prepares and implements a risk-based audit plan to assess, report on, and suggest ways to improve the HRSS internal controls, finance activities, and operations. In addition, this role will ensure data security controls are in place, including understanding systems access controls and policies while managing and maintaining associated access logs. They are also responsible for supporting and protecting company financial data and the reporting process.

Strong background with and working knowledge of end-to-end operations across the HR Shared Services organization, including the up and down stream impacts partner organizations. A focus on continuous process improvement, through SOPs, systems, integrations, etc. is key to ensuring our controls remain best-in-class. Must be able to work through ambiguity, be self-motivated with the ability to piece together facts and data necessary to identify compliance and control issues, propose solutions through necessary process and control changes, and collaborate with partners on solution implementation and resolution.

To be successful in this role, the candidate must be a subject matter expert on SOX controls, associated compliance requirements and regulations, with the ability to handle these responsibilities in a large, complex operation timely and accurately.

This individual must be an independent thinker with the ability to work with little day-to-day direction.In this role, this individual must be able to foster and drive collaboration, engagement, trust, transparency,and accountability across HR Shared Services. Must be able to move with agility and velocity, with anextreme focus on ownership and accountability leading to accurate financial and compliance outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Understand the SOX process flows, narratives, risk and control matrices of business processes, and information technology platforms relevant to financial reporting
• Conduct or participate in walkthroughs and other meetings with process and control owners to ensure SOX testing plans are properly created to address financial reporting risks
• Participate in the development of testing plans over key controls, reports, spreadsheets, and audits performed by partners supported by this role
• Coordinate with Finance/Accounting/Internal Audit team(s) to support development and execution of Internal Audit plans and programs, reviews, validations, and responsibilities
• Manage assigned and/or ad-hoc internal audit assignments as appropriate and necessary
• Evaluate the operational effectiveness of entity-level controls and business process key controls, while offering control changes that more closely align with partner needs, including IA and Finance/Accounting
• Verify and maintain compliance with applicable government regulations/requirements
• Review and audit current processes to ensure compliance, while recommending and implementing changes where needed
• Research, determine root cause, and resolve associated SOX and control issues that arise
• Participate in internal or external audits and review of records, worker’s compensation, tax filings, SOX, and other related documentation
• Partner closely with various organizational partners to ensure accurate GL & tax reporting
• Lead work and provide direction for transitions in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, particularly as it relates to the review and understanding of controls and deliverables within the acquiring organization
• Communicate effectively with partners and various levels of management to ensure high level of support

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Working knowledge of and experience with SOX and associated internal control framework
• Excellent communication skills including written, verbal, listening and presentation
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to foster, develop, and maintain trusted and collaborative working relationships with partners across the organization
• Team player with a strong work ethic and ability to work autonomously
• High degree of professionalism with an extreme focus on attention to detail
• Multiple years working in large, complex organizations
• Apply documented rules, past practices, or instructions on an independent level
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Ability to process and connect information in times of ambiguity
• Demonstrated ability to hold information confidential with excellent judgment
• Ability to manage time, prioritize deliverables, multi-task and work under pressure in a dynamic work environment
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, research and problem solving skills
• Intermediate to advanced analytical skillset, including the use of Excel, Alteryx and/or other tools
• Experience with Workday and ADP systems highly preferred

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is: