# Audit Operations Lead

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $230,000-$300,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## 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 so the program runs from one system of record instead of spreadsheets. You will scale the program through AI-enabled workflows that reduce manual effort and speed up our SOX program.

This role reports to the Head of Business Controls and works closely with everyone on the SOX and Internal Audit team. This is an individual contributor role for someone who keeps a complex program on schedule, writes clearly, and makes the program simpler each cycle.

## Key Responsibilities

- Own the annual SOX audit calendar, including interim and year-end testing windows, walkthrough schedules, and key deliverable dates agreed with external auditors.

- Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for external auditor requests. Triage, route, and track each request to closure, including PBC lists and evidence deliveries.

- 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 get evidence delivered on time.

- 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 share status with external auditors.

- Lead work with the business to improve control documentation.

- Find optimization and automation opportunities across the SOX lifecycle through the use of AI.

- Support the rollout of the GRC tool for SOX.

- Define the data and reporting requirements the platform must meet, and test that it produces what the program needs.

- Run the quarterly sub-certification process and report results to leadership.

- Own SOX program status reporting: dashboards and metrics for leadership.

## Minimum Qualifications

- Big 4 audit firm experience on SOX 404 or ICFR engagements.

- Experience working directly with external auditor teams on requests, testing schedules, and findings.

- Several years of hands-on SOX 404 experience.

- Working knowledge of the COSO framework, ICFR, and PCAOB standards.

- Experience developing or maintaining Risk and Control Matrices and process documentation.

- Experience implementing or administering a GRC system.

- Experience reporting program status, metrics, and issues to senior leadership.

- Ability to get control owners to deliver on time without authority over them.

- Clear writing and calm coordination 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: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.

- Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas.

## Skills

### Required
- SOX 404
- ICFR
- COSO framework
- GRC systems
- Risk and Control Matrices
- SQL
- data tools
- automation

### Nice to have
- in-house SOX experience
- fraud risk assessment
- CPA
- CISA
- Claude

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