Senior SOX Compliance Analyst

Requisition ID # 162563 

Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Finance

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The SOX Compliance department is responsible for overseeing the effective design and operating effectiveness of the company's internal control over financial reporting and acts in a consultative capacity as a business partner and financial controls expert to the entire organization. The SOX Compliance team plans and manages the company’s annual SOX Compliance Program.

Position Summary

The Senior SOX Compliance Analyst will be responsible for ensuring adequately designed internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) are in place to mitigate risks in materially significant business processes in scope for SOX. While in this role, you will facilitate the documentation and maintenance of SOX business processes & ICFR, assess the design & operating effectiveness of ICFR, provide controls guidance for business changes, identify business process control deficiencies, provide guidance to business partners developing remediation plans, monitor the status of remediation, and coordinate work with the external auditors.

The role is hybrid working from your remote office and in-person in the Oakland General Office, on average 1-3 days a week based on business need or company requirements. 

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.  

A reasonable salary range is:​

Bay Area Minimum:            $98,000

Bay Area Maximum:           $146,000

Job Responsibilities

• Oversight of the Company's SOX compliance efforts for several business SOX processes
• Coordinate with the business partners to ensure adequately designed ICFR are in place and adequately documented for financially significant processes.
• Plan, perform and/or facilitate process walkthroughs, narrative updates, process map updates, risk assessments, and entity-level controls & ICFR testing by established due dates
• Evaluate control deficiencies and conclude on the potential impact to financial statements
• Coordinate the development and monitoring of deficiency remediation plans
• Identify opportunities for streamlining and automating control activities within financial processes
• Special projects and participation in various initiatives (e.g., new system implementation, etc.)

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or business or related field or equivalent work experience
• 5 years in accounting, auditing, process improvement and/or risk management including public accounting or consulting experience, experience in designing and implementing internal controls procedures or other process improvements in a complex cross functional organization and preparing disclosures and reports.

Desired:

• Experience in public accounting, at Big 4 firm
• Experience in external/internal auditing
• Experience in the Utilities Industry
• Experience in SOX-Sarbanes Oxley implementations, lead
• Experience with SAP
• CIA-Certified Internal Auditor certification
• CPA-Certified Public Accountant certification