SOX PMO Manager

Come Be Part of a Mission that Matters!

Reporting to the Chief Accounting Officer, the SOX PMO Manager plays a critical role in sustaining an effective and robust control environment. Leading the Company’s second line of defense, you own various risk management and compliance activities, including monitoring and oversight of the Company’s key control activities. Your expertise is a source of knowledge for the global accounting function as you develop, deploy, and maintain the Company’s key control framework and standardized accounting processes, and enhance awareness and accountability over SOX-related activities. You are a driven manager who is looking to apply their audit and project management experience to oversee the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the Company’s control environment.

This role follows a hybrid model, combining in-office and remote work. We offer flexibility in scheduling to accommodate individual needs while maintaining team collaboration.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitor management’s internal control activities to ensure SOX program milestones and objectives are successfully achieved. Identify and remove barriers to sustain program velocity.
• Update the risk assessment and materiality calculation to identify in scope accounts, locations, and information systems.  Coordinate the scope of the annual SOX assessment process to ensure comprehensive coverage with Internal Audit.
• Develop and drive the SOX communication and education plan to provide regular status updates and enhance stakeholder understanding of the SOX program and new requirements.
• Distill complex topics in simple terms and inspire transformational improvement in internal controls.
• Drive continuous improvement, including facilitating remediation of control gaps identified by Internal Audit or the external auditor.
• Facilitate the control deficiency severity analysis and classification in collaboration with Internal Audit to support Management’s assessment of internal controls over financial reporting.
• Maintain the Company’s key control framework and support its local implementation across all global locations.
• Facilitate management’s role in risk monitoring activities, such as supporting the Company’s Enterprise Risk Management program.
• Manage the quarterly control certification and representation letter process in partnership with the SEC reporting team for senior leadership.
• Participate in SOX Committee and Disclosure Committee meetings.
• Research, assess, and benchmark SOX and audit requirements to provide a point of view on audit requirements related to SOX controls.
• Partner with the SEC reporting team to interpret and apply technical accounting guidance and accounting standards updates to SOX-relevant policies and processes.
• Manage multiple cross-functional, multi-disciplinary “special projects”, serving in a project leadership capacity.
• Assemble project teams, collaborate on individual responsibilities, develop project schedules, determine resources needed to achieve milestones and overall objectives/outcomes, execute project requirements and communications.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders, including Accounting, IT, Internal Audit and the external auditor.
• Support the implementation of our automated SOX management tool; program manage the execution and documentation of control activities to ensure the tool reflects the current status of SOX-related activities.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance; CPA or equivalent a plus.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of combined experience in a national public accounting firm and SOX/Risk compliance; experience in the initial design and implementation of a SOX 404 program is highly desired.
• Prior experience in manufacturing or biotechnology industries is preferred.
• Understanding of US GAAP, COSO principles, SOX 404 and 302 requirements and PCAOB standards.
• Ability to interpret and explain complex information to a range of audiences and build consensus among different stakeholders.
• Excellent relationship management skills and ability to influence outside of direct team, collaborate with different stakeholders, and drive and implement changes.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills including executive presentation skills.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to exercise judgment and solve complex problems.
• Strong understanding of PCAOB and SEC SOX requirements.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to collaborate across multiple business areas.
• Understanding of IT controls relevant to ICFR and SOC evaluation/reliance protocols.

Please press Apply to submit your application.

#LI-Remote

WHO IS NEOGEN:

From farm to fork, we offer solutions to enhance the quality, quantity and safety of the global food supply. Our food safety diagnostics are used within farming operations to the production facilities of most of the world’s best-known food companies. Neogen’s solutions are critical to the health and well-being of our customers’ operations – and in turn their consumers. What we do matters!

Neogen’s culture combines stability with a deep believe in providing professional and personal growth. Our Pillars of Trust – the principles which guide our everyday decision—making, include Openness, Honesty, Credibility, Respect, and Service. It’s the belief in these characteristics that provide a consistent, happy and healthy work environment for our employees.