Internal Audit, Senior Director

Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.

Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.

As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.

We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.

Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.

About the Role:  

Planet is seeking an Internal Audit Senior Director.  This role will administratively report to the CFO but function reporting will be to the Audit Committee. You will oversee the design, implementation, evaluation, and documentation of internal controls. In this role, you will lead the day-to-day operations of our SOX compliance program, leveraging your technical expertise with internal control assessments. You will also lead the planning and coordination with external consultants and auditors to ensure effective execution of the SOX compliance program. 

This is a full-time position and may work remotely in the United States.

Impact You’ll Own:

• Oversees the design, implementation, evaluation, and documentation of internal controls
• Leads the execution of management's SOX risk assessment and scoping activities to ensure proper risk identification, process mapping, and internal controls linkage for a sustainable internal control framework
• Partners with external consultants to plan and execute the annual assessment of internal controls over financial reporting
• Partners with members of the accounting and finance teams, the IT team and other business process owners to improve efficiency of the financial controls environment through implementation of automation or process improvements globally across core business processes
• Develops processes and policies for reporting findings and leads the communication of those findings to stakeholders
• Collaborates with process owners in the development of remediation plans and ensures the adequacy of remediation actions taken by management until satisfactory resolution
• Reviews testing prepared by others of the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting
• Builds solid relationships across Finance, Product, IT, Legal, external consultants, external audit and other stakeholders 
• Maintains appropriate documentation of process narratives, flow charts and risk assessment documentation
• Leads the coordination and commutation with the external auditor for matters relating to internal controls over financial reporting
• Provides quarterly and ad-hoc reports to the Audit Committee on status, findings and recommendations 
• Oversees the coordination and resolution of any internal or external audit findings for SOX related matters
• Develops and manages the internal audit budget and resources effectively
• Develops creative, practical, and cost-effective recommendations for process improvements or efficiency enhancements to company processes internal processes
• Assist with ad-hoc projects

What You Bring:

• Extensive experience with planning and executing internal control assessments in a public company environment
• Solid knowledge of SOX 404, US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements 
• 12+ years with a public accounting firm and/or progressive experience in industry relating to internal controls, internal audit or risk management
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to present internal control and risk matters in an understandable way across various forums and levels of the organization with the right level of detail
• Excellent analytical skills including the ability to identify, assess and address risk, materiality and interdependencies and translate it into impact analysis for financial reporting and rec