Senior Director - Global IT Compliance and Governance

Senior Director - Global IT Compliance and Governance

Description -

HP Inc. brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, and services to serve more than 1 billion customers in over 170 countries. Innovative and adaptive, we’ve grown with the industry for decades, from instruments to calculators, to computers, printers, and 3D manufacturing.  Today we are building a Future Ready HP, known for more than just the great PCs and printers we sell today, but also for new services and industry-leading innovations, ensuring that every experience we provide is connected, personalized, and optimized for our customers, partners, and employees.

HP’s Digital Technology organization is seeking a result-oriented, dynamic, global IT Compliance leader who will lead the strategy and roadmap for designing, implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of IT general controls (ITGC) and IT application controls (ITAC) for the company.  This newly created position provides an opportunity to play a key role in building the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance function required as a US listed business. They will also have the responsibility of leading IT compliance for other domestic and global regulations like CMMC, FedRamp, NIST etc. This leadership role will have significant interaction with senior executive management across HP’s leadership team, internal audit function, external auditors, and finance and wider business teams across the US, and rest of the world.

This role will play a critical role in safeguarding HP’s operational integrity and mitigate risks, ingraining “compliance by design” culture across HP. They will report directly into the Office of the CIO (OCIO)

Responsibilities

• Be the compliance culture champion for HP closely partnering with senior leadership team across Digital Technology organization and its business partners.

• Lead the SOX compliance program, including the design, implementation, and monitoring of internal controls over financial reporting.

• Develop, maintain, and implement the control policy, process, and procedure documentation, ensuring it remains risk focused.

• Ensure the company stays updated on evolving risk management and financial control best practices.

• Coordinate and manage SOX, PCAOB, ISO related needs for internal and external audits.

• Oversee the operating businesses’ response to control observations identified by internal and external auditors.

• Act as the key point of contact with internal auditors, external auditors, and related advisors relating to financial controls as well as ITGC, ITAC.

• Regularly report to the Audit Committee on risk and financial controls

• Undertake second-line assurance testing of key controls and enable a rigorous self-certification process

• Review and test process and control enhancements made in response to control findings.

Required Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field

•  CPA qualified with Big 4 public accounting experience, 15+ years.

• CSOP, CISA, CPA certifications strongly preferred.

• Internal and External auditor experience for Fortune 100 companies strongly preferred.

• Strong technical background with the ability to develop a team in US GAAP.

• 10+ years of experience in governance, SOX compliance, or internal controls within multinational organizations.

• Successful track record of leading IT compliance programs, remediating deficiencies, material weaknesses, collaborating with internal and external auditors.

• Familiarity with GRC tools, ERP systems (e.g., SAP), IGA, and reporting solutions.

Required Techno - Functional Skills

Risk Identification & Analysis: Adept in identifying, assessing, and prioritizing risks related to technology, financial reporting, cybersecurity, and data privacy.

Control Design & Implementation: Hands-on experience developing and implementing risk mitigation strategies and controls, particularly focusing on financial reporting risks.

Internal Control Frameworks: Familiarity with frameworks such as SOX, COSO, COBIT, and ISO 27001 for establishing and maintaining internal controls.

Control Testing & Monitoring: Experience evaluating control design and effectiveness, conducting control testing, and ensuring ongoing controls monitoring of systems, applications, and technology processes.

IT Infrastructure Knowledge: Understanding enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud services, and networks.

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC):