SOX IT Auditor

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About the Team

About the Role

We are seeking a detail-oriented collaborative SOX IT Auditorto join our Internal Controls team in Pune. This role helps support managements assessment of internal control over financial reporting by evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of IT controls across systems and business processes in scope for SOX. You will partner closely with Technology Finance Accounting business-process owners and external auditors to assess risks document controls coordinate evidence and identify practical improvements. The role is especially important as our environment evolves through system implementations integrations and other changes that may affect SOX-scoped processes. The Internal Controls function supports effective control design and testing that underpin managements SOX assessment and financial-reporting confidence. The team works with business and technical owners to understand system and transaction flows define appropriate control points and evaluate whether controls operate effectively. This position will also help ensure that changes to SOX-scoped systems are governed appropriately. For larger implementations or system-development lifecycle activity the SOX team may participate throughout UAT to confirm testing has been satisfactorily completed and documented.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and perform risk-based testing of IT general controls automated application controls and IT-dependent manual controls.

• Evaluate control design and operating effectiveness across areas such as user access privileged access change management system development lifecycle interfaces job scheduling and data integrity.

• Partner with system process and control owners to understand end-to-end processes identify relevant financial-reporting risks and design or enhance effective controls.

• Review business requirements solution designs implementation plans and testing documentation for significant SOX-scoped system changes.

• Assess whether user acceptance testing and related documentation are appropriately completed when required under the SOX control framework.

• Coordinate timely and high-quality evidence collection; maintain clear workpapers testing results and issue documentation.

• Identify control gaps communicate findings clearly and partner with stakeholders on practical remediation plans.

• Track remediation activities and validate that corrective actions are implemented effectively.

• Support quarterly and annual SOX compliance activities including collaboration with external audit partners.

• Contribute to continuous improvement in audit methodologies control documentation automation and use of GRC/audit-management tooling.

About You

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science Accounting Finance Audit or a related field.

• 5 years of relevant experience in IT audit SOX compliance internal controls risk advisory or technology risk ideally in a public-company or similarly regulated environment.

• Strong knowledge of IT general controls automated controls IT-dependent manual controls and SOX internal-control principles.

Other Qualifications:

• Ability to translate technical processes and system configurations into clear control risks test procedures and business-focused recommendations.

• Experience partnering across technical and nontechnical teams and communicating effectively with senior stakeholders.

• Strong analytical organization documentation and project-management skills.

• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work within reporting-cycle deadlines.

• Professional certification such as CISA CIA CPA or CISSP is preferred.

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