Risk and Controls Program Manager

Spotify; Leeds; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Technology Risk and Controls Program Manager to lead critical initiatives within their Financial Engineering team. This role is essential for ensuring secure and compliant operations as the company continues to grow. You will collaborate with Product and Engineering leads to design and manage the controls framework, ensuring the effectiveness of the Engineering control environment. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in risk and compliance, particularly with SOX and ICFR, and will thrive in a dynamic, agile environment. If you're passionate about technology and compliance, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in risk and controls/IT compliance or Internal Audit.
• CPA/CISA certification preferred, with Big 4 experience being a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive efforts related to global Internal Controls over Financial Reporting.
• Collaborate with teams to maintain an effective IT control environment.
• Monitor industry and regulatory developments for internal control improvements.

Skills

Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR)

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

Risk Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Agile Methodologies

IT General Controls (ITGC)

Public Accounting

Financial SaaS Systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Management Information Systems

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Technology Risk and Controls Program Manager to lead critical risk and control initiatives within our Financial Engineering team. This role is crucial for ensuring the team's operations are secure, compliant, and scalable as Spotify continues to grow and diversify its business.

In this role, you will partner with Product and Engineering leads within our R&D organization as well as Finance teams to design and manage our controls framework while supporting the Spotify audit cycle.

You will be instrumental in ensuring the effectiveness of our Engineering (IT) control environment, with a focus on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements.

What You'll Do

• Partner with engineering, business, and internal audit teams to drive efforts related to Spotify’s global Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements.
• Liaise and translate risk and controls between the business process and IT General Controls (ITGC) environments across a complex systems landscape that follows an agile development approach.
• Collaborate with process and control owners to maintain an effective Engineering (IT) control environment, including recommendations for the design, implementation, and remediation of ITGCs and IT application controls.
• Provide training and support for system control owners and their teams to ensure effective operation of ITGCs and associated business process controls.
• Enable the efficient execution of our SOX compliance program and schedule by serving as the primary liaison between external audit and the R&D Engineering teams you support.
• Provide thought leadership and risk and compliance support as our businesses, processes, and technology evolve.
• Support major business and technology projects by providing risk analysis and control impact assessments while assisting in the implementation of any associated control or process changes.
• Monitor industry and regulatory (SEC, PCAOB) developments and develop recommendations for policy, process, technology, and internal control improvements.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in public accounting, risk and controls/IT compliance, Internal Audit, or an equivalent role.
• CPA/CISA or other relevant certification is strongly preferred.
• Big 4 experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of and experience working with software engineering teams and standard engineering methodologies, including Agile and CI/CD.
• Ability to work independently to plan, complete, and deliver on projects in an organizational area.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills (e.g., expectation setting, education, prioritization).
• Experience with control environments related to financial SaaS systems, NetSuite or similar cloud ERP is a plus.
• Experience working with multinational organizations and teams across multiple time zones is a plus.

Where You'll Be

• We offer flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the United Kingdom region, provided we have a suitable work location.
• This team operates within Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) for collaboration.

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