SOX Controls Senior Analyst

About The Role

As a Senior Analyst in Pearson’s Business Controls team, you will play a key role in making sure that our framework of internal controls is well designed and operating as intended. You will be responsible for completing a sub-set of our annual controls testing as part of our Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and will coordinate both with control owners in the business and members of our external audit team, promptly responding to and resolving any queries.

Location: You will mostly home-based but willing and able to travel to Pearson’s central Manila office approximately once/twice per month to meet your Manila-based colleagues.

Work shift: 1:00 PM to 10:00 / 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM Philippine Time

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• Perform controls testing thoroughly in line with our team schedule and testing methodology.
• Highlight any opportunities for improvements to controls to control owners and process teams.
• Collaborate with control owners to develop remediation plans for addressing control deficiencies and monitoring remediation activities to ensure timely resolution of identified issues.
• Communicating clearly and concisely to convey testing requirements and flag any potential issues.
• Building and sustaining positive working relationships with colleagues in the business, understanding their perspective, and any challenges, in operating controls.
• Proactive in managing your own work, asking for support when you need it, keeping your line manager up to date on progress and flagging any potential problems as soon as possible.
• Promptly documenting all work within our audit software, Wdesk, ensuring data is up-to-date and accurate.
• Keep up to date with changes in SOX guidance and techniques, and with changing technology
  
  

What We Are Looking For

This role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to perform control testing to a high standard. Effective communication and collaboration skills are essential for working with control owners, supporting remediation efforts, and maintaining positive stakeholder relationships. In addition you will require:

• Degree or relevant equivalent qualification.
• Professional certifications such as CPA, CIA, or CRMA (preferred).
• Proven SOX controls testing experience, ideally in a Big 4 firm or large organisation’s internal controls function, focused on SOX work.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to convey testing requirements and build positive relationships with control owners and business stakeholders.
• Proactive and well-organised, able to manage workload effectively, escalate issues early, and keep managers informed.
  
  

Desirable Skills

• Experience with major ERP systems, preferably Oracle
• Familiarity with audit / controls software - Wdesk
• Familiarity with data analysis tools (e.g. Tableau, Google BigQuery, Process Mining)
  
  

This role offers a good opportunity for someone who is looking to build on their solid SOX experience and technical knowledge as we standardise internal controls testing at Pearson. If you’re interested in putting your SOX skills to good use in a supportive, collaborative international team we look forward to hearing from you.

Who We Are

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the worlds lifelong learning company. For us, learning isnt just what we do. Its who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

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Job: Finance

Job Family: ENTERPRISE

Organization: Corporate Finance

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type

Req ID: 21865

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