Manager, SOX Financial Controls

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future.

The Manager, SOX Financial Controls – Business Process will act as the SOX Team Lead for assigned Prudential in-scope business units, taking end-to-end ownership of the timely and high-quality delivery of SOX 404 compliance activities across finance and business process controls.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as SOX Team Lead and primary contact for assigned business units, taking end-to-end ownership of delivery, quality and stakeholder coordination with business units and external auditors.
• Lead end-to-end SOX scoping and planning and translating the plan into clear testing schedules, resource requirements and milestones covering interim, roll-forward and year-end testing activities.
• Support annual SOX scoping, risk assessment and control rationalisation, ensuring key financial reporting risks are appropriately understood and addressed.
• Allocate and supervise testing activities across testers, providing clear direction, coaching and timely feedback.
• Review test plans, workpapers, supporting evidence and testing conclusions, ensuring quality and adherence to the SOX PCOFR methodology as well as timely, accurate maintenance of testing documentation within PRISM.
• Monitor SOX delivery against agreed testing schedules, providing timely status reporting, identifying risks and quality concerns early, driving issues to resolution and escalating matters appropriately to support successful programme delivery.
• Prepare and maintain management information, dashboards and governance reporting for Group Financial Controls leadership.
• Lead the identification and assessment of control deficiencies, communicating issues to management and external auditors as appropriate, challenging remediation actions to ensure they address the underlying control weakness and are sustainable, and monitoring remediation progress through to timely closure.
• Build effective working relationships with Finance, Actuarial, Risk, IT, business unit coordinators and external auditors.
• Support the wider Group’s transformation programme and identify opportunities to streamline testing, standardize documentation, improve use of dashboard and automation or data analysis to enhance efficiency and delivery of the SOX programme.
• Support Auditor Independence Policy monitoring and other Group Financial Controls governance activities as required.