Vice President, SOX Control & Compliance

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of SOX / ICFR Lead, Vice President, to join our SOX & Controls team. This role is located in Manchester, UK. In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: • Own the end-to-end delivery of assigned SOX and ICFR workstreams, including planning, walkthroughs, testing, issue tracking, and reporting against agreed milestones. • Perform and coordinate risk assessments to identify significant processes, key controls, and changes in systems, products, or business activities that may impact financial reporting risk. • Lead the refresh of narratives, risk and control matrices, flowcharts, and control inventories, ensuring documentation remains current, complete, and audit ready. • Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of key SOX manual controls, including review of evidence, exception analysis, and documentation of conclusions. • Coordinate with control owners and business partners to schedule walkthroughs, obtain evidence, resolve questions, and support timely completion of testing activities. • Identify control gaps or weaknesses, assess potential impact, and support remediation planning and validation of corrective actions. • Serve as a primary liaison for internal and external auditors for assigned reviews, ensuring clear communication and high-quality support through the audit lifecycle. • Prepare concise updates on progress, issues, risks, and remediation status for management and support escalation where required. • Coach and support Senior Associates and other junior team members on testing methodology, documentation standards, and stakeholder engagement. To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: • Strong understanding of SOX, ICFR, internal controls, and financial reporting processes in a regulated environment. • Relevant experience in SOX testing, internal audit, external audit, finance controls, controllership, or risk and controls roles, preferably within banking or financial services. • Experience leading walkthroughs, documenting processes, testing controls, evaluating exceptions, and producing high-quality working papers. • Knowledge of automated controls, system reports, interfaces, spreadsheets/end-user computing, and relevant IT control dependencies to have an integrated view for SOX. • Strong analytical and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines. • Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work effectively with stakeholders across multiple functions and seniority levels. • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Risk Management, or a related field. • Professional qualification such as CA, CPA, ACCA, ACA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent preferred. • Experience in banking products, financial close, regulatory reporting, or enterprise controls frameworks such as COSO. • Exposure to process improvement, automation opportunities, or control rationalisation initiatives.