Risk and Controls Program Manager

Spotify; Osage City (KS); Remote; USD 119,000 - 171,000; 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 pivotal role is essential for ensuring secure and compliant operations as the company grows. You will partner with engineering and business teams to manage the controls framework, ensuring adherence to Internal Controls over Financial Reporting and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. The position offers flexibility to work within the Americas region, providing a collaborative environment with opportunities for professional growth. If you have a passion for risk management and compliance, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

Monthly Meal Allowance

Paid Days Off

Paid Flexible Holidays

Paid Sick Leave

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in public accounting or IT compliance.
• Strong knowledge of internal controls and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Drive efforts related to Internal Controls over Financial Reporting and SOX requirements.
• Collaborate with teams to maintain an effective Engineering control environment.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Risk Analysis

Internal Controls

Compliance

Agile Methodologies

IT General Controls

Education

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

Tools

NetSuite

Cloud ERP

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 assigned organizational area.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills (i.e., expectation setting, education, prioritization, etc.).
• Experience with control environments related to financial SaaS systems, NetSuite or other similar cloud ERP is a plus.
• Experience working with multinational organizations and teams distributed across multiple time zones is a plus.

Where You'll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the Americas region as long as we have a work location.
• This team operates within the Eastern Time Zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $119,210-$170,300, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.