Full Time Manager, SOX Financial Controls Jobs, in HFG Insurance Recruitment Federal Territory - Maukerja

About the Role

The Manager, SOX Financial Controls – Business Process will serve as the SOX Team Lead for assigned in-scope business units, with end-to-end responsibility for the timely and high-quality delivery of SOX 404 compliance activities across finance and business process controls.

The role will lead and coordinate walkthroughs and testing activities, supervise and review the work of SOX testers, and ensure that workpapers and supporting evidence meet established SOX methodology and external audit expectations. The successful candidate will also maintain accurate and complete records within the Group’s SOX governance, risk and compliance platform.

This role will monitor delivery against agreed milestones, provide clear status reporting, identify risks and delays early, and work with stakeholders to implement appropriate recovery and remediation actions.

The position requires close collaboration with Finance, Actuarial, Risk, IT, business-unit coordinators and external auditors. The role will provide constructive challenge, support practical issue resolution, and contribute to continuous improvement, standardisation and automation initiatives across the Group Financial Controls function.

The role will also support monitoring of compliance with the Auditor Independence Policy and contribute to wider Group Financial Controls activities, including governance, operational risk and Group Governance Manual compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the SOX Team Lead and primary point of contact for assigned business units, taking end-to-end ownership of delivery, quality and stakeholder coordination with business units and external auditors.
• Lead end-to-end SOX scoping and planning, translating the overall plan into clear testing schedules, resource requirements and milestones covering interim, roll-forward and year-end testing.
• Support the annual SOX scoping, risk assessment and control rationalisation process, ensuring key financial reporting risks are appropriately identified, assessed and addressed.
• Allocate and supervise testing activities across SOX testers, providing clear direction, coaching and timely feedback.
• Review test plans, workpapers, supporting evidence and testing conclusions to ensure quality, accuracy and adherence to the established SOX methodology, as well as timely and accurate maintenance of documentation within the SOX governance platform.
• Review the assessment of management review controls, reconciliations, journals, Information Produced by the Entity (IPE) and IT-dependent business controls, escalating technical matters where specialist input is required.
• Monitor SOX delivery against agreed testing schedules and provide timely status updates, proactively identifying risks, delays and quality concerns, driving issues to resolution and escalating matters where appropriate.
• Prepare and maintain management information, dashboards and governance reporting for Group Financial Controls leadership.
• Lead the identification and assessment of control deficiencies, communicating issues to management and external auditors where appropriate. Challenge remediation plans to ensure they address the underlying control weaknesses and provide sustainable solutions, while monitoring remediation progress through to timely closure.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with Finance, Actuarial, Risk, IT, business-unit coordinators and external auditors.
• Support wider transformation initiatives and identify opportunities to streamline testing, standardise documentation, enhance dashboard utilisation, and leverage automation and data analytics to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the SOX programme.
• Support Auditor Independence Policy monitoring and other Group Financial Controls governance activities as required.