# Manager, Business Processes, SOX Program **Company**: PayPal **Location**: Chicago, Illinois **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $106,000.00 - $157,300.00 Annually **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://paypal.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Chicago-Illinois-United-States-of-America/Manager---Business-Processes--SOX_R0138611?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_651e61dd-3d9 ## Description The Manager, Business Processes, SOX Program is a key leader within PayPal's Internal Audit SOX function and is responsible for transforming the delivery of the company's global SOX business process audit program, driving a shift toward a more efficient, technology-enabled, and risk-focused approach. This role will modernize how SOX is executed by leveraging data, automation, and AI, while serving as a strategic partner to the business and ensuring a high-quality, scalable control assurance framework. **Essential Responsibilities:** - Manage audit assignments, including drafting audit issues and reports, socializing findings with management, and soliciting feedback - Facilitate issue tracking and validate closure of identified issues - Develop and maintain professional working relationships with colleagues, business units, and support areas - Stay updated on industry and business changes to inform audit plans, approaches, and risk assessments - Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls for regulatory and technology risks - Provide coaching, mentoring, and leadership to less experienced team members - Identify regulatory and technology risks and act as a business partner to relevant teams **Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:** - Oversee annual SOX planning, including risk assessment, materiality, scoping, and timeline governance - Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing SOX team - Partner with external auditors to drive efficient, high-quality audits with minimal disruption - Oversee and optimize co-sourcing partner model and performance - Own and lead the end-to-end SOX lifecycle for business process controls (O2C, R2R, P2P, etc.) - Act as the primary escalation point and decision-maker for complex control, audit, and accounting issues - Oversee end-to-end deficiency lifecycle, including identification, evaluation, and remediation tracking - Ensure internal controls are well-designed, scalable, and operate effectively across a complex, global environment - Drive continuous improvement and rationalization of controls to reduce redundancy and increase reliance on automated controls - Lead the development of SOX program reporting, including materials for Audit Committee, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and executive-ready messaging. - Lead complex technical accounting and process risk assessments, especially in areas of judgment and estimation - Anticipate and respond to business and system changes (e.g., new products, acquisitions, platform changes) - Identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI, data analytics, and automation to reduce and improve risk coverage and precision - Develop framework to assess and mitigate risks introduced by AI-driven processes - Serve as a strategic advisor to Finance and business leaders on control design, process optimization, and risk trade-offs - Lead SOX readiness efforts for new product launches, system implementations (ERP, financial platforms), and M&A integrations - Provide forward-looking risk insights, not just retrospective testing - Build strong partnerships across Finance, IT, Product, Legal, and Operations - Communicate complex control and risk topics in a clear, concise, executive-ready manner - Influence decisions at the Director, Senior Director, VP levels - Set a high-performance bar, fostering accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement - Attract and retain top-tier talent, building a pipeline of future leaders - Drive a culture of ownership, curiosity, and operational excellence **Benefits:** At PayPal, we're committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. We offer comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing,physical, emotional, and financial,delivering meaningful value where it matters most. ## Skills ### Required - SOX - audit - risk management - internal controls - accounting - finance ### Nice to have - CPA - CIA - CISA - CISSP - Excel - PowerPoint - Optro (AuditBoard) --- Source: [Apply at paypal.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://paypal.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Chicago-Illinois-United-States-of-America/Manager---Business-Processes--SOX_R0138611?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)