Sr. Manager SOX

About the Role

As Chime’s senior SOX audit leader, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of a world class SOX program. The successful candidate will advise and guide management on how to maintain and build robust SOX controls. They will be highly curious and be able to dive deeply into business processes to identify areas of weakness, inefficiency, and be influential with key stakeholders around process improvement. The candidate must be able to understand the full range of risks related to processes and help guide business owners in defining best practices and effective value-added risk mitigation plans. This role will help build a solid foundation for Chime’s inaugural Internal Audit department and be a trusted advisor to your primary business partners in the Accounting, People Ops, Equity, Tax, and Risk teams.

You will partner with our Head of Internal Audit to develop professional practice standards and build a risk-based audit plan.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $146,610 and up to $207,700. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

In this role, you can expect to 

• Collaborate with the Head of Audit to develop and implement a SOX audit program that is commensurate with the size and needs of Chime while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
• Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with business partners, learning and understanding the business to better provide value-added services, establishing credibility as a management consultant and internal controls resource, and ensuring business partner satisfaction.
• Partner with Accounting, People Ops, Equity, Tax, and Risk teams to advise and provide assurance around a strong and scalable internal controls environment. Assist in documentation where needed.
• Oversee the business process related SOX program; liaise with internal and co-sourced resources to execute the project plan; collaborate with and advise internal business owners; evaluate and conclude on control assessments according to PCAOB standards; work closely with external auditors to coordinate quarterly and year-end control testing.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends, regulations, and best practices in internal controls and provide guidance accordingly
• Participate in Chime’s critical systems implementations to ensure best practice control procedures and designs are followed; ensure utilization of automation / automated controls where appropriate.
• Identify and develop audit techniques including continuous auditing, data analysis and monitoring while leveraging Chime’s core platforms, applications and capabilities.

To thrive in this role, you have

• 8+ years of SOX experience in Big 4 or PCAOB preferred
• Bachelors or equivalent in accounting, or other business-related fields. Appropriate certifications in auditing are preferred (i.e. CPA, CIA or equivalent).
• Strong regulatory knowledge and ability to understand automated processes in a digital platform and the underlying technology.
• A proven ability to effectively lead a SOX program and drive improvements year over year.
• Experience with managing external auditor requirements and expectations.
• Experience leading integrated audits that address a combination of financial/operating and technology objectives.
• A hands-on leadership style, with a scrappy start-up mentality.

A little about us

We created Chime because we believe everyone deserves financial peace of mind. By eliminating unnecessary fees and helping people grow their savings automatically, we’ve empowered millions of Americans to take control of their finances.

Chime is the largest and fastest-growing U.S. player in the challenger-banking space. Through our banking partners, we offer access to bank accounts with fee-free overdraft, provide members the chance to receive early access to their paychecks, help them improve their credit, and more!

We've built one of the most experienced leadership teams in Fintech and were recently valued at over $14.5B. We've raised over $1B in funding from leading investors including DST, Coatue, Tiger Global, General Atlantic, Iconiq, Dragoneer, Menlo, Whale Rock, Access, Forerunner, Crosslink, Cathay, aCrew, and others.

What we offer

• 💰 Competitive salary based on experience
• ✨ 401k match plus the usual medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• 📝  Quarterly stipend to spruce up your home office
• 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days