Global Internal Controls and SOX Manager

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Job Description

Guardant Health is seeking an experienced and motivated Global Internal Controls and SOX Manager to join our growing Global Internal Controls and SOX Compliance program. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in evaluating the effectiveness of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, identifying, and assessing business and technology risks across a variety of business functions, and performing controls testing, data analytics, and ad-hoc reviews. 

The Global Internal Controls and SOX Manager will report to the Head of Global Internal Controls & SOX Compliance and be part of a unified team that is solutions-oriented, challenges assumptions, embraces innovation, maintains integrity and independence; promotes collaboration, seeks simplicity while being decisive through coordination of efforts, and with a focus on the details. 

The Global Internal Controls and SOX Manager will be responsible for leading and partnering with cross-functional teams to design, develop and test against established SOX compliance controls. In this role, he/she will leverage tactical thinking, while driving planned efforts to keep the company compliant and safe. This opportunity has a visible impact on the organization and requires a level of amiable partnering and interpersonal skills.  

If you have SOX/Audit experience, have an enquiring mind, a focus on team development, positive intent, dare to take risks and view challenges as learning opportunities, and enjoy working with new technologies, evolving processes, and smart people, we'd love to have you join our team!  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for internal controls over business processes, IT application controls, user access reviews, and SOC1 controls. 
• Lead the day-to-day as well as strategic aspects of SOX program: tracking and monitoring workstreams and following up with internal and external stakeholders on outstanding items; adherence to time, project scope and budgets. 
• Accountable for up-to-date documentation of current processes (in-scope) including incorporation of automation, workflows, and application architecture (SOX process documentation, flow charts and RCM). 
• Share lead in the annual and quarterly update of the ICOFR risk assessment, with emphasis on end-to-end coverage at entity, account level and application levels. 
• Tenacious in leading the identification, evaluation, and monitoring of the remediation of control deficiencies, partnering with internal stakeholders to ensure successful and scalable remediation solutions, seeking simplicity. 
• Coordinate for timely completeness of controls/process walkthroughs with internal and external stakeholders; with excellent comprehension of end-to-end processes. 
• Taking advantage in staying abreast of changes in processes, people, and technology in the control environment, to capture changes in risk, process, applications, and controls timely. 
• Manage and as needed perform testing of internal controls and operational reviews. 
• Own and deliver on SOX readiness process as new systems are being developed and/or process changes, to determine changes in new risks and control, identifying yourself as the SME for that application/process and controls. 
• Engage in as needed operational reviews to support the effectiveness of internal controls addressing financial, operational, strategic and technology risks. 
• Recognize and support the ongoing maintenance and evolution of Auditboard for RCM, projects, ad-hoc requests. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree 
• 5 plus years of experience in Audit, SOX Compliance, Accounting or Business Operations. 
• Working knowledge of internal controls over financial reporting (ICOFR), PCAOB standards & COSO. 
• Experience with Oracle Fusion, SOX GRC, Data Visualization Tools, MS Office (Advanced Excel). 
• Strong communication skills, interpersonal skills, and presentation skills. 
• Organized, neat, solid attention to detail, and ability to re-prioritize with shifting prioriti