Internal Audit Senior

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform. More than 1,900 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike’s, Marks & Spencer, NBCUniversal, PayPal, Shopify, and Under Armour rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey.  With Amplitude, teams can understand what product features are working, where users are getting stuck, and what actions lead to the right outcomes. As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables creation of better products, ability to solve complex problems, and drive more powerful solutions. In order to make diversity possible, we commit to striving to create an environment of inclusion: an environment focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection, which will allow employees of all backgrounds to feel the care they need to thrive.

About The Role & Team

Amplitude is looking for an Internal Audit Senior to join our dynamic Accounting team. You will be responsible for planning and performing internal audits for a rapidly growing global organization. Collaborating with talented team members across various functions, you will play a key role in ensuring we complete our audits based on established timelines. The individual in this role enjoys building strong relationships, helps cross functional teams in managing multiple competing priorities to meet deadlines, and will own the role while embracing our cultural values of Humility, Ownership, and Growth Mindset. The role will initially focus on Sarbanes-Oxley Act and later expand to include special audit projects focused on growth initiatives and efficiencies.

 As an Internal Audit Senior, you will: 

• Partner with the Head of Internal Audit to develop the annual audit plan for Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) compliance
• Perform test of controls and document the results of procedures in our audit compliance tool. Our external auditors will review the documentation and rely on them for their external audit
• Work closely with the external SOX provider to track the overall audit plan and establish progress reports regularly
• Manage the quarterly Sales Certification and SOX 302 Certification process
• Independently research nature and root cause of audit issues/findings and work with process owners to identify short-term and long-term solutions to address issues
• Partner with cross functional teams to identify areas where compliance automation will reduce manual efforts, and work with the Corporate Engineering team to design and build solutions

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on SOX audit experience preferably in a tech start-up environment
• High-level understanding of systems and how they interface; ability to easily learn new systems; experience with project management
• Ability to clearly and concisely articulate audit issues and findings in simple terms to cross functional teams
• Ability to independently research audit issues and work closely with internal teams, external contractors and auditors to remediate audit findings
• Proficient with productivity software including MS Excel (pivots, sumifs, vlookups).
• Good understanding of audits of both financial statement and IT General Controls/systems
• NetSuite and Salesforce experience is preferred, but not required

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view. 

SF version; adjust for office location We care about the well-being of our team: along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexible time off, a monthly wellness stipend, a generous parental leave, a subscription to Modern Health, and a generous Learning & Development stipend. 

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform – we help companies understand their users, rapidly release better product experiences, and ultimately grow their business. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

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