The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. How? With a media-buying platform that helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers — and sets a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency.

So if you’re talented, driven, creative, and hungry to bring something entirely new and wildly ambitious into the world (and have some fun doing it), then we want to talk.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Reporting to the Senior Director, the Manager SOX Financial Controls (“Manager”) is a member of the Finance team and assists with the company’s SOX Financial Controls. The Manager assists the Senior Director in leading the company’s maintenance, enhancement and remediation of SOX Financial Controls.

The ideal candidate will have an in-depth knowledge and experience in the areas of SOX Financial Controls in a highly complex internally-developed technology environment. Other success factors for this role include being comfortable with change, being resourceful and exhibiting professional curiosity. The Manager needs to be able to work as an individual contributor and collaborate with other stakeholders as well as resources from a third-party consulting firm.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Assist with the annual SOX risk assessment, scoping and planning. This will include a comprehensive assessment of financial controls and rationalization as well as developing and managing a project plan.
• Liaise with and provide direction to internal and/or external teams in performance of SOX compliance activities ensuring process and control enhancements or deficiencies are identified, tracked, and resolved.
• Work with all financial control owners to identify, document, review, implement, and certify internal controls. This includes the development and review of control descriptions, process narratives, key reports and process mapping or flow charts.
• Identify recommendations and work with control owners to implement process improvements to ensure compliance, drive sustainability and continuously improve the company’s SOX compliance initiatives.
• Obtain SOC1 reports from the relevant service organizations and relevant sub-service organizations and assess implication on the company’s internal control environment and ability to rely on third-party information.
• Develop recommendations for remediation of control deficiencies and work with stakeholders to implement fixes.
• Assess financial reports used in performance of key controls to determine whether they should be designated as key reports. Work with key report owners to document parameters and settings of the key reports.
• Demonstrate clear and concise writing, and verbal skills to communicate complex issues in simple terms to executive management and team members.
• Produce quality and well-thought through deliverables supporting analysis and recommendations to stakeholders and executive management.
• Assist with special projects and strategic initiatives including company system implementations and conversions. Assess such implementations for compliance with System Development Lifecycle requirements as well as scoping for SOX compliance.
• Perform Sox control testing or review of control testing, as needed.

WHO YOU ARE:

• BS or BA in relevant field (Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Internal Auditing)
• Certifications such as CPA, CISSP, CISM, CISA or CIA, preferred
• 5+ years of experience including both public accounting and industry experience
• Industry experience with highly complex internally-developed technology company, demonstrating proficiency with issues that are typical for technology companies with a complex IT environment
• Extensive experience with Sarbanes Oxley, PCAOB requirements, and COSO Framework required
• Proven results in process improvement and change management
• Strong organizational skills, follow-through and detail-oriented self-starter with the ability to work independently and see tasks/projects through to completion, meet deadlines and understand when to escalate matters if needed
• Ability to make effective and independent judgments, including the ability to develop creative solutions to difficult problems
• Ability to summarize complex and/or technical information into easy-to-understand pieces (distinguishing message delivery from analysis)
• Ability to understand latest industry trends and their potential impact on the company
• Ability to juggle multiple high priorities in a fast-paced environment and have a willingness to learn
• Outstanding communication skills – including written and verbal communications, interpersonal, analytical, negotiating and problem-solving skills; proven ability to work cross-functionally
• The ideal candidate will be ready to uphold the highest levels of integrity as a

  baseline. It is critical that the candidate have a willingness and ability to lead in a hyper-growth environment - with all of the complexity that environment brings. 

• The ideal candidate will bring strong operational capabilities but should also have deep technical skills. 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”.

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