SOX Compliance Manager - #7495598

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you'll do

This position will be part of the Controller group overseeing internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) design and implementation. This role will require thorough understanding of internal controls, COSO framework and accounting principles.

This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director of Financial Compliance.

Responsibility

• Enhance the company’s Internal Controls and SOX Program (for both business and information technology processes), and ensure compliance with accounting policies and SOX regulations
• Conduct periodic risk assessments to define risks to the business, and how each risk is, or should be, mitigated
• Work with functional departments to understand current processes, plus document and maintain process documentation (narratives, flowcharts, etc.)
• Evaluate the design of internal control activities, including performing gap assessments to determine new controls needed
• Review and update the company’s risk and control matrix and internal control documentation to maintain and update key controls, plus ensure a high level of quality of documentation
• Develop and maintain a control testing plan to assess the operating efficiency of key controls, identify deficiencies, perform deficiency assessment, and provide recommendations for areas of improvement
• Perform follow-up on the status of outstanding deficiencies and assist process owners in the design and implementation of process improvements and remediation action items
• Work with all relevant system and IT and Technology owners to review the design, implementation, and evaluation of IT general controls and automated system controls and configurations
• Prepare periodic status updates for Senior Management and the Audit Committee
• Act as the point of contact for external and internal audit to support testing, walkthroughs, process reviews, and PBC requests as it relates to internal controls
• Serve as a technical resource on all internal control and process improvement matters, including development, refinement, and documentation of internal controls and processes for all departments and new strategic initiatives
• Collaborate with process, control, and system owners to develop and provide training programs on SOX industry leading practices and risk management
  
  

Job Designation

Remote: Employee is not required to be in or near an office frequently and works from a designated remote work location for the majority of the time.

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or Accounting
• 5+ years of relevant work experience
  
  

Preferred

• Big 4 public accounting and corporate SOX experience in a multi-national public company a plus
• Professional certification such as CISA, CPA, CIA, or similar
• Strong understanding of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the 2013 COSO framework, and SEC guidance for management's assessment of internal controls over financial reporting
• Strong understanding of current accounting (GAAP) and auditing (GAAS) principles
• Experience with Oracle Cloud ERP preferred
• SaaS industry experience preferred
• Strong articulative skills, with ability to effectively communicate at all levels
• Thorough approach with high level of accuracy and strong attention to detail
• Proactive attitude and excellent project management skills with the ability to effectively prioritize and multitask
  
  

Life at Docusign

Working here

Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what’s right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you’ll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation

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