Description
About the Role
You will run the external audit calendar for Anthropic's SOX 404 program as we scale toward an IPO. This involves coordinating with external auditors, aligning testing windows with control owners, educating control owners, and keeping requests and deliverables on schedule.
You will also own SOX scoping and risk assessment cycles, deficiency tracking, and status reporting. Additionally, you will help roll out our GRC platform to streamline the program and implement AI-enabled workflows to reduce manual effort.
This role reports to the Head of Business Controls and works closely with the SOX and Internal Audit team. You will be an individual contributor responsible for keeping a complex program on schedule, writing clearly, and simplifying the program each cycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the annual SOX audit calendar, including interim and year-end testing windows, walkthrough schedules, and key deliverable dates.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for external auditor requests, triaging, routing, and tracking requests to closure.
- Coordinate auditor walkthroughs and fieldwork with process owners, control owners, and the SOX Testing team.
- Track auditor findings, management responses, and deficiency follow-ups, and report status to Internal Audit leadership.
- Prepare control owners and process owners for auditor sessions and ensure timely delivery of evidence.
- Lead the annual SOX scoping and risk assessment, including quarterly refreshes, and support the annual Fraud Risk Assessment.
- Monitor BP and IT SOX testing and report status to leadership and external auditors.
- Lead efforts to improve control documentation, including education on templates and SOX guidance.
- Identify opportunities for optimization and automation across the SOX lifecycle using AI.
- Support the rollout of the GRC tool for SOX, including control libraries, workflows, evidence requests, and testing templates.
- Define data and reporting requirements for the platform and test its production.
- Run the quarterly sub-certification process and report results to leadership.
- Own SOX program status reporting, including dashboards and metrics for leadership.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience with Big 4 audit firms on SOX 404 or ICFR engagements.
- Hands-on experience working directly with external auditor teams.
- Several years of SOX 404 experience, including scoping, risk assessment, control documentation, testing, and deficiency evaluation.
- Knowledge of the COSO framework, ICFR, and PCAOB standards.
- Experience with Risk and Control Matrices and process documentation.
- Experience implementing or administering GRC systems.
- Ability to report program status, metrics, and issues to senior leadership.
- Clear writing and coordination skills under deadline pressure.
- A Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- In-house SOX experience at a pre-IPO or newly public company.
- Experience running a fraud risk assessment.
- CPA, CISA, or similar certification.
- Comfort with SQL or data tools for reporting and experience building lightweight automations.
Logistics
- Annual Salary: $230,000-$300,000 USD
- Location-based hybrid policy: 25% office time
- Visa sponsorship available