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Promethean Director, SOX in Seattle, Washington

At Promethean... We're on a mission to transform the way people learn and collaborate around the world. For over 25 years, we've been empowering educators, innovators, and business leaders with our award-winning interactive displays and software solutions that transform learning and workspaces into connected, creative environments. Our company is rooted in our , igniting a culture that fosters collaboration and innovation, as well as promoting an inclusive environment. As a global leader in edtech, we are also passionate about four key areas where we can make a difference: growing access to technology for underserved communities, encouraging our employees to take an active role in improving our world, promoting diversity and inclusion, and reducing our carbon footprint. Discover more about our initiatives. As a member of #TeamPromethean, you'll have the opportunity to change lives with technology and directly impact education and the workplace for countless people every day. If you're passionate about education, collaboration, and making a positive global impact, we want to hear from you. Join us on our mission to transform the world, one student, one teacher, and one community at a time. The Director SOX ("Director") is a member of the Finance organization and develops the strategy for and executes on the company's SOX program and initiatives. The Director must have superb knowledge of the complexity and requirements of SOX regulation in an internal control environment for a pre-IPO or newly-IPO company. The Director will lead the company's initial build-out, then maintenance, enhancement, and remediation of internal controls. The role will communicate with the independent accounting firm, CAO, CFO and Audit Committee, as needed. The ideal candidate will have recent in-depth internal control over financial reporting knowledge and experience from previous roles at global publicly traded companies building SOX programs from ground-up. For the successful candidate, the Director would have previously formed strategies appropriate for the internal control environment including tactical execution to remediate material weaknesses. Relevant experience with internal control over financial reporting in a complex technology hardware and software-as-a-service ("SaaS") environment will be highly preferred. Other success factors for this role include being comfortable with change, being resourceful and exhibiting professional curiosity. The Director will manage, guide and lead external consultants in executing on the strategies and initiatives to help the company meet highly complex regulatory requirements as a publicly traded company. The Director will collaborate with other stakeholders across the organization including Finance, IT, Legal, Warehousing-Facilities and Sales Operations, among others. The ideal candidate will be ready to uphold the highest levels of integrity as a baseline. It is critical that the candidate has a willingness and ability to lead in a hyper-growth public company environment - with all the complexity that environment brings. The ideal candidate will bring strong operational capabilities but should also have deep recent technical skills surrounding SOX requirements. The ideal candidate will be a confident, effective communicator and will engender followership and loyalty. The person will bring significant successful experience interacting with external auditors. Stylistically, the candidate must be high-energy and willing to "roll up their sleeves". Job Duties and Responsibilities: Develop the strategies behind the Company's initial development of internal control over financial reporting as well as remediation of material weaknesses. In overseeing a team of external consultants, execute the strategies for the Company to remediate material weaknesses and to enhance financial reporting and IT processes. Lead the annual SOX risk assessment, scoping and pla

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