Senior SOX Manager – IT

ABOUT THE ROLE We're transforming the grocery industry and we're looking for a Senior SOX Manager to lead enterprise-wide programs focused on SOX compliance, IT controls, and controls transformation across modern technology environments. This role sits at the intersection of technical program management, digital risk, and engineering, requiring the ability to translate complex system architectures into scalable, audit-ready control frameworks. WHAT YOU'LL DO In this role, you'll own program strategy and execution, driving alignment across Engineering, Finance, Data, and Audit stakeholders to deliver automated, efficient, and sustainable control environments. Your responsibilities will include: - Leading end-to-end SOX programs, including planning, execution, and delivery across ITGCs, ITACs, and key business process controls - Driving risk assessments, control scoping, testing, deficiency evaluation, and remediation - Defining program roadmaps, milestones, and success metrics, ensuring alignment with compliance and audit requirements - Coordinating with Internal Audit and external auditors to support audit readiness and reliance - Leading complex, cross-functional programs spanning multiple systems, teams, and business domains - Operating as the single-threaded owner for program outcomes across technology, engineering, data, and finance stakeholders - Translating ambiguous technical and regulatory requirements into structured execution plans - Driving implementation of controls across modern technology environments, including cloud native architectures, cloud platforms, distributed systems, and API-driven systems - Addressing risks related to dynamic infrastructure and environment provisioning, configuration management, and system inconsistencies - Partnering with engineering teams to embed controls within system design and architecture decisions - Embedding controls across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, environment segregation, and deployment governance - Promoting "compliance-by-design" and "compliance-as-code" approaches - Ensuring controls are implemented with minimal friction to engineering workflows - Leading programs to implement controls across data platforms and financial reporting pipelines, including data ingestion, transformation, and reporting layers, and reconciliations between source systems and reporting outputs - Ensuring controls support data completeness, accuracy, and lineage, and reliable and auditable financial reporting datasets - Overseeing controls across key financial processes, including order-to-cash, revenue recognition, payments, adjustments, and reconciliations - Addressing risks in high-volume, system-driven transaction environments - Driving implementation of end-to-end reconciliation and completeness controls across systems - Driving adoption of automated control testing frameworks, continuous controls monitoring (CCM) solutions, and data analytics to enhance control effectiveness - Reducing reliance on manual, point-in-time controls by enabling scalable, real-time assurance models - Leading material weakness and control deficiency remediation programs - Defining and executing future-state control frameworks aligned to scalable, technology-enabled environments WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you'll need: - A strong background in SOX compliance, IT controls, and controls transformation - Experience leading complex, cross-functional programs spanning multiple systems, teams, and business domains - Ability to translate complex system architectures into scalable, audit-ready control frameworks - Strong technical skills, including experience with cloud native architectures, cloud platforms, distributed