IT Analyst IV

MW Partner; Rosemead (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MW Partner seeks an experienced internal controls professional to support IT SOX, business controls, and quality management across assigned portfolios. You will partner with business, IT, internal audit, and leadership to design, test, and remediate controls including ITGCs, change management, and interface controls.

You will lead control narratives, RACMs, and documentation, perform gap analyses, and identify automation opportunities using AI and digital tools while maintaining audit

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent experience considered.
• 7+ years in internal controls, SOX, and risk management.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and communicate with leadership.
• Strong knowledge of ITGCs and control domains including access, change management, SDLC.
• Comfort with AI and digital tools to modernize analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead IT SOX and internal control documentation across portfolios.
• Develop RACMs and control narratives; oversee scoping and remediation plans.
• Perform stakeholder interviews, process mapping, gap analysis, and reporting.
• Drive automation and standardization opportunities while preserving audit defensibility.

Skills

ITGCs

SOX controls

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Business analysis

AI tools

RACM

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent experience

Tools

Audit software

Excel

Data analytics tools

Job description

Responsibilities and duties:

• Contingent worker will act as both a business analyst and SOX analyst supporting IT SOX, business controls, quality management, and control documentation activities. The role will partner with business, IT, internal audit, SOX Governance, external auditors, and leadership to develop, assess, document, test, and remediate internal controls across assigned portfolios, including control design and operating effectiveness. This includes ITGCs, automated/configurable controls, access controls, change management, SDLC controls, reports/IPE, interface controls, deficiency management, and control evidence. The role will also evaluate existing SOX, operational and compliance controls to identify opportunities for automation, simplification, standardization, and improved control efficiency while maintaining audit defensibility.
• Serve as overall lead / project manager / assessor for assigned portfolios; lead control deficiency review for IT SOX controls; lead document management for risk, audit and control matrices (RACMs), and control narratives; support scoping assessments, IT project SDLC control assessment and design, robotic process automation design reviews, scoping memos, remediation plans, governance reporting, and executive-ready status updates. Perform business analysis activities, including stakeholder interviews, requirements gathering, current-state and future-state process mapping, gap analysis, action tracking, and translating control needs into process or documentation requirements. Evaluate current SOX, operational and compliance controls and related processes for control design, operating effectiveness, automation, simplification, standardization, and documentation improvement opportunities without weakening control effectiveness or audit readiness.
• Looking for a highly skilled internal controls professional who can operate independently, deal with ambiguity, and move work forward without needing step-by-step direction. The person should be resourceful, proactive, and comfortable working across business, IT, SOX Governance, internal audit, external auditors, and senior leadership. This role will support assigned portfolios, lead IT SOX deficiency reviews, manage RACM and control narrative documentation, and evaluate existing SOX, operational, and compliance controls for control design, operating effectiveness, automation, simplification, and standardization opportunities. Candidate must bring strong critical thinking, a learning mindset, and confidence using AI and digital tools to modernize analysis, documentation, reporting, and control execution while maintaining audit defensibility.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree preferred in business, accounting, finance, information systems, technology, engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 7+ years of experience implementing internal control policies, processes, controls, and system improvements; strong SOX, regulatory, operational controls, risk management, audit coordination, and business analysis experience;
• ability to lead cross-functional teams, assess complex problems, develop control documentation, manage RACM and narratives, support control testing, evaluate control design and operating effectiveness, synthesize data/process flows, and communicate clearly with frontline teams through executive leadership.
• Must have strong knowledge of ITGCs and control domains including access, change management, SDLC, automated/configurable controls, reporting, interfaces, control deficiency management, and control evidence.
• Must demonstrate strong critical thinking, sound judgment, learning mindset, resourcefulness, and the ability to deal with ambiguity and challenge existing control designs and processes constructively.
• Must be comfortable using AI and digital tools to modernize work, improve analysis, streamline documentation, and increase efficiency.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with large-scale software implementations and/or enterprise business process control environments; utility industry experience; professional training or certifications in audit such as CIA, CISA, CRISC, or equivalent, quality management, controls, risk, or project delivery; experience liaising with internal/external auditors and producing executive-level presentations, SOX status reports, governance materials, control deficiency memos, remediation plans, scoping memos, process flows, control design and operating effectiveness assessments, testing support documentation, issue logs, decision logs, and control narratives.
• Experience identifying opportunities to automate or simplify SOX controls, reduce manual effort, improve evidence quality, and modernize control documentation using AI-enabled or digital productivity tools is strongly preferred.