SOX Auditor – IT Controls Manager

🕒 May 8

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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Finance • Fintech

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange is a cryptocurrency platform that facilitates the buying and selling of over 200 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2011, Kraken provides a comprehensive suite of features for both beginner and advanced traders, such as advanced trading interfaces and margin trading. The platform emphasizes industry-leading security, deep liquidity, and 24/7 customer support, making it a trusted choice for users worldwide. Kraken caters to individual investors as well as institutional clients, offering services like OTC trading and custody. The company is committed to transparency with its proof of reserves and mission-driven values. Kraken operates globally, supporting clients in over 190 countries, with a quarterly trading volume exceeding $207 billion. However, users are advised of the high risk of crypto investments and the lack of regulation in some jurisdictions.

📋 Description

• Lead the execution of independent testing of IT General Controls (ITGCs) across key control domains: access management, change management, and system operations. • Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of IT controls across in-scope applications and infrastructure, including systems that support blockchain-native operations, digital asset custody, and crypto trading platforms. Document testing procedures and results to meet Internal Audit and external auditor quality standards. • Identify new systems, applications, or process changes that emerge during testing and assess their SOX implications in coordination with the SOX Compliance team. • Build and maintain testing programs, templates, and workpapers that create a repeatable, scalable foundation for IT SOX testing. • Identify opportunities to leverage AI-enabled workflows and data analytics to improve testing coverage and efficiency across IT control domains. • Independently validate the remediation of open SOX findings, including material weaknesses and significant deficiencies, across ITGC control areas. • Evaluate control deficiencies by performing root cause analysis and assessing the severity and pervasiveness of exceptions to inform deficiency classification. • Assess whether management’s remediation actions are adequately designed and operating effectively before closing findings. • Track remediation progress, escalate delays or gaps, and report status to Internal Audit leadership and the Audit Committee as required. • Coordinate with the SOX Compliance team to ensure alignment on remediation expectations, timelines, and evidence requirements. • Serve as a trusted Internal Audit point of contact for IT control owners across Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and IT Operations. Bridge the gap between audit methodology and engineering culture — these teams speak a different language than accountants, and you need to be fluent in both. • Contribute to Internal Audit reporting to the Audit Committee, external auditor, and senior leadership on IT SOX testing coverage, findings, and remediation status. • Partner with the business process SOX tester and co-sourced resources to ensure coordinated testing coverage across the full SOX program.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in IT audit, internal audit, external audit, or SOX compliance, with significant exposure to IT general controls testing. • Experience in crypto, fintech, payments, or technology-intensive environments with complex, rapidly evolving infrastructure. • CISA and CPA certifications required. Candidates with one certification who are actively pursuing the other will be considered. • Strong knowledge of ITGC frameworks, SOX compliance requirements, COSO, COBIT, and PCAOB auditing standards as they apply to IT controls. • Hands-on experience testing ITGCs across access management, change management, and system operations. • Technical fluency with enterprise technology environments — you don’t need to be an engineer, but you need to understand how systems, databases, and deployment pipelines work to effectively test the controls around them. • Understanding of how IT controls underpin the reliability of financial reporting — you can connect an ITGC failure to its downstream impact on business process controls and the financial statements. • Experience working with or alongside external auditors (Big 4 preferred) on SOX engagements. • Experience operating across multi-entity structures or multiple jurisdictions. • Effective communicator who can translate technical IT audit findings for control owners, engineering teams, senior leadership, and external stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities